User attitudes in analyzing digital slides in a quality control test bed: a preliminary study

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Vincenzo Della MeaCarlo Alberto Beltrami

Abstract

The pathologist examines suitably stained glass slides through a bright field microscope in order to render histopathological or cytological diagnosis by looking at tissues and cells. Glass slides serve as a permanent record of the patient disease. Over the course of a patient's treatment slides may need to be reviewed at other institutions before treatment can commence. Due to their fragile nature a transportable permanent digital facsimile of the glass slide would be ideal. A digital slide is a set of digital images representing the whole slide normally used by the pathologist, or a significant part of it; it is usually made by a large amount of images, up to thousands, which makes its management difficult. The present paper provides a description of the requirements needed to reproduce glass slides and of the available technological equipment, then the features of the two systems we implemented on different hardware are described, together with those of the digital slide viewer. The viewer was evaluated in two experimental test phases, during which user behaviour and diagnostic reports were measured. Digital slides used in the two experiments were acquired with either system. Possible applications of digital slides are then ...Continue Reading

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Apr 25, 2006·Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine·Vincenzo Della MeaCarlo Alberto Beltrami

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Aug 30, 2008·Telemedicine Journal and E-health : the Official Journal of the American Telemedicine Association·Daniele GiansantiMaria Rosaria Giovagnoli
Aug 5, 2008·Diagnostic Pathology·Vincenzo Della MeaCarlo Alberto Beltrami
Aug 5, 2008·Diagnostic Pathology·Roberto MencarelliAlessio Gasparetto
Apr 22, 2011·Diagnostic Pathology·Christel DanielVincenzo Della Mea
Apr 3, 2012·Diagnostic Pathology·László FónyadBéla Molnár
Apr 1, 2014·Journal of Digital Imaging·Tracy OnegaJoann G Elmore
Jan 19, 2011·Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics : the Official Journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society·Christel DanielThomas Schrader
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Nov 8, 2015·Journal of Digital Imaging·Tracy OnegaJoann G Elmore
Nov 8, 2011·American Journal of Transplantation : Official Journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons·K IsseA J Demetris
Apr 25, 2006·Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine·Vincenzo Della MeaCarlo Alberto Beltrami
Jun 6, 2009·CytoJournal·Liron PantanowitzRobert A Goulart

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