Primary histologic diagnosis using automated whole slide imaging: a validation study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Only prototypes 5 years ago, high-speed, automated whole slide imaging (WSI) systems (also called digital slide systems, virtual microscopes or wide field imagers) are becoming increasingly capable and robust. Modern devices can capture a slide in 5 minutes at spatial sampling periods of less than 0.5 micron/pixel. The capacity to rapidly digitize large numbers of slides should eventually have a profound, positive impact on pathology. It is important, however, that pathologists validate these systems during development, not only to identify their limitations but to guide their evolution.

Methods

Three pathologists fully signed out 25 cases representing 31 parts. The laboratory information system was used to simulate real-world sign-out conditions including enterin

SUBMITTER: Gilbertson JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1525169 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature