TY - JOUR
T1 - Pathology image exchange
T2 - The Dutch digital pathology platform for exchange of whole-slide images for efficient teleconsultation, telerevision, and virtual expert panels
AU - van Diest, Paul J.
AU - Huisman, André
AU - van Ekris, Jaap
AU - Meijer, Jos
AU - Willems, Stefan
AU - Hofhuis, Hannelore
AU - Verbeek, Xander
AU - van der Wel, Myrtle
AU - Vos, Shoko
AU - Leguit, Roos
AU - van den Brand, Michiel
AU - Hebeda, Konnie
AU - Grünberg, Katrien
PY - 2019/6/13
Y1 - 2019/6/13
N2 - Among the many uses of digital pathology, remote consultation, remote revision, and virtual slide panels may be the most important ones. This requires basic slide scanner infrastructure in participating laboratories to produce whole-slide images. More importantly, a software platform is needed for exchange of these images and functionality to support the processes around discussing and reporting on these images without breaching patient privacy. This poses high demands on the setup of such a platform, given the inherent complexity of the handling of digital pathology images. In this article, we describe the setup and validation of the Pathology Image Exchange project, which aimed to create a vendor-independent platform for exchange of whole-slide images between Dutch pathology laboratories to facilitate efficient teleconsultation, telerevision, and virtual slide panels. Pathology Image Exchange was released in April 2018 after technical validation, and a first successful validation in real life has been performed for hematopathology cases.
AB - Among the many uses of digital pathology, remote consultation, remote revision, and virtual slide panels may be the most important ones. This requires basic slide scanner infrastructure in participating laboratories to produce whole-slide images. More importantly, a software platform is needed for exchange of these images and functionality to support the processes around discussing and reporting on these images without breaching patient privacy. This poses high demands on the setup of such a platform, given the inherent complexity of the handling of digital pathology images. In this article, we describe the setup and validation of the Pathology Image Exchange project, which aimed to create a vendor-independent platform for exchange of whole-slide images between Dutch pathology laboratories to facilitate efficient teleconsultation, telerevision, and virtual slide panels. Pathology Image Exchange was released in April 2018 after technical validation, and a first successful validation in real life has been performed for hematopathology cases.
KW - Decision Support Systems, Clinical
KW - Health Information Management
KW - Humans
KW - Image Processing, Computer-Assisted/methods
KW - Medical Informatics/methods
KW - Microscopy
KW - Neoplasms/diagnosis
KW - Netherlands
KW - Remote Consultation/methods
KW - Software
KW - User-Computer Interface
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074660644&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1200/CCI.18.00146
DO - 10.1200/CCI.18.00146
M3 - Article
C2 - 31194585
AN - SCOPUS:85074660644
SN - 2473-4276
VL - 3
SP - 1
EP - 7
JO - JCO clinical cancer informatics
JF - JCO clinical cancer informatics
ER -