TelePi: an affordable telepathology microscope camera system anyone can build and use.

ABSTRACT: Telepathology facilitates histological diagnoses through sharing expertise between pathologists. However, the associated costs are high and frequently prohibitive, especially in low-resource settings, where telepathology would paradoxically be of paramount importance due to a paucity of pathologists.We have constructed a telepathology system (TelePi) with a budget of < €120 using the small, single-board computer Raspberry Pi Zero and its High-Quality Camera Module in conjunction with a standard microscope and open-source software. The system requires no maintenance costs or service contracts, has a small footprint, can be moved and shared across several microscopes, and is independent from other computer operating systems. TelePi uses a responsive and high-resolution web-based live stream

SUBMITTER: Youssef A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11271423 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature