Our experience in creating and using telepathology system and multimedia database for education is described. This program packet currently works in the Department of Pathology of University Medical School in Poznan. It is used for self-education, tests, services and for the examinations in pathology, i.e., for dental students and for medical students in terms of self-education and individual e...

Telepathology is an attractive solution for providing neuropathologic intraoperative expertise to geographically diverse hospitals from a center of excellence. To date, few reports specifically address the feasibility of such a system for intraoperative neuropathology specimens. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is a 20-hospital system in Southwest Pennsylvania in which the pathology ...

Lens-free holographic microscopy can achieve wide-field imaging in a cost-effective and field-portable setup, making it a promising technique for point-of-care and telepathology applications. However, due to relatively narrow-band sources used in holographic microscopy, conventional colorization methods that use images reconstructed at discrete wavelengths, corresponding to e.g., red (R), green...

The high resolution and sensitivity of electron microscopy is a valuable ancillary tool or gold standard in pathological diagnosis. The conventional sample turnaround time for processing in the lab can be significantly reduced from days to hours by the microwave technology. Microwaveassisted tissue processing, in combination with digital image acquisition, enables a "same-day" diagnosis in urge...

The Virtual Microscope is being designed as an integrated computer hardware and software system that generates a highly realistic digital simulation of analog, mechanical light microscopy. We present our work over the past year in meeting the challenges in building such a system. The enhancements we made are discussed, as well as the planned future improvements. Performance results are provided...

Pathology. A simple extension to HTML is presented, whose aim is introducing a general-purpose grouping construct to allow the semantic markup of hierarchically structured hypermedia documents. Such a structural information can be used for an effective authoring, browsing and searching of documents. The authoring tool HistMaker is introduced on the basis of a model of a pathologic case; its imp...