Presented at the 1998 APIII Conference Return to 1998 Abstract Index
DYNAMIC DIGITAL TELEPATHOLOGY
http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hpsl/ResearchAreas/vm.htm
Johns Hopkins
Medical Institutions
University of Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland
Joel Saltz, MD,
PhD1, 2
Alan Sussman, PhD2
Bob Miller, MD1
Angelo Demarzo, MD, PhD1
Mark Silberman MD1
Asmara Afework2
Mike Beynon2
Renato Ferreira2
Anthony Wiegering2
1 Johns Hopkins
Medical Institutions
2 University of Maryland
The Virtual Microscope is a client-server system designed to provide a realistic digital emulation of a high power light microscope. The Virtual Microscope allows the user to smoothly move a virtual microscope stage as well as to change magnification. In addition, the Virtual Microscope makes it possible for several people to look at different portions of a particular slide. The client is an image browser that runs on a user's PC or workstation. The server is responsible for storing, retrieving, processing, and serving the microscope image data and runs on a high performance machine. The raw data for such a system can be captured by digitally scanning collections of full microscope slides under high power.
The Virtual Microscope promises to move Pathology from the glass slide era to the computer era. Our tools will soon make it possible to generate and make available digital archives containing interesting case material, to train and evaluate Pathology residents, and to provide continuing medical education to Pathologists. The Virtual Microscope server is a high performance database engine that has been developed to store, retrieve and process data from a variety of sources including microscopy, satellite sensors and outputs from high end scientific simulations. The Virtual Microscope server is designed to be able to efficiently run user specified algorithms. We plan to implement a variety of algorithms to carry analysis of microscopy data, such as three dimensional reconstruction and morphometric analysis.