Volume 6 Supplement 1
Proceedings of the 10th European Congress on Telepathology and 4th International Congress on Virtual Microscopy
Proceedings
Edited by Klaus Kayser, Arvydas Laurinavicius and Gian Kayser
Sponsorship for publication of these proceedings has been provided by the International Academy of Telepathology (IAT), COST-Action IC0604, EU Verein Förderung des Biol.-Techn. Fortschritts in der Medizin, e.V., Heidelberg, DiagnomX GmbH.
The 10th European Congress on Telepathology and 4th International Congress on Virtual Microscopy. Go to
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Vilnius, Lithuania1-3 July 2010
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Telepathology, the practice of pathology at a long distance, has advanced continuously since 1986. Today, fourth-generation telepathology systems, so-called virtual slide telepathology systems, are being used ...
Authors: Essam Ayad
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This study is an initial investigation on the capability of multispectral imaging to capture subtle spectral information that would enable the automatic delineation between the eosinophilic esophagitis and oth...
Authors: Pinky A Bautista and Yukako Yagi
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An original strategy is presented, combining stereological sampling methods based on test grids and data reduction methods based on diffusion maps, in order to build a knowledge image database with no bias int...
Authors: Philippe Belhomme, Myriam Oger, Jean-Jaques Michels, Benoit Plancoulaine and Paulette Herlin
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Starting with the paradigm change of health systems towards personalized health services, the paper introduces the technical paradigms to be met for enabling ubiquitous pHealth including ePathology. The system...
Authors: Bernd Blobel
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Complement C4d component deposition in kidney allograft biopsies is an established marker of antibody-mediated rejection. In the Banff 07 classification of renal allograft pathology, semi-quantitative evaluati...
Authors: Ernesta Brazdziute and Arvydas Laurinavicius
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Digital pathology includes the information technology that allows for the management of information, including data and images, generated in an anatomic pathology department.
Authors: Marcial García Rojo, Ana Morillo Castro and Luis Gonçalves
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Ki67 labeling index (Ki67 LI), the percentage Ki67 immunoreactive cells, is a measure of tumor proliferation, with important clinical relevance in breast cancer, and it is extremely important to standardize it...
Authors: S Fasanella, E Leonardi, C Cantaloni, C Eccher, I Bazzanella, D Aldovini, E Bragantini, L Morelli, LV Cuorvo, A Ferro, F Gasperetti, G Berlanda, P Dalla Palma and M Barbareschi
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Virtual microscopy is being introduced in medical education as an approach for learning how to interpret information in microscopic specimens. It is, however, far from evident how to incorporate its use into e...
Authors: Laura Helle, Markus Nivala, Pauliina Kronqvist, Andreas Gegenfurtner, Pasi Björk and Roger Säljö
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The distribution of diagnosis-associated information in histological slides is often spatial dependent. A reliable selection of the slide areas containing the most significant information to deriving the assoc...
Authors: Klaus Kayser, Jürgen Görtler, Stephan Borkenfeld and Gian Kayser
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Virtual microscopy can be applied in an interactive and an automated manner. Interactive application is performed in close association to conventional microscopy. It includes image standardization suitable to ...
Authors: Klaus Kayser, Jürgen Görtler, Stephan Borkenfeld and Gian Kayser
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E–education or electronically transferred continuous education in pathology is one major application of virtual microscopy. The basic conditions and properties of acoustic and visual information transfer, of t...
Authors: Klaus Kayser, Robert Ogilvie, Stephan Borkenfeld and Gian Kayser
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Diagnostic surgical pathology or tissue–based diagnosis still remains the most reliable and specific diagnostic medical procedure. The development of whole slide scanners permits the creation of virtual slides...
Authors: Klaus Kayser, Jürgen Görtler, Stephan Borkenfeld and Gian Kayser
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We describe development and evaluation of the user-friendly web based virtual microscopy - WebMicroscope for teaching and learning dental students basic and oral pathology. Traditional students microscopes wer...
Authors: Janusz Szymas and Mikael Lundin
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There are many scanners of glass slides on the market now. Quality of digital images produced by them may be different and pathologists who examine virtual slides on a monitor may subjectively evaluate it. How...
Authors: Slawomir Walkowski and Janusz Szymas
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Standardization and validation of the color displayed by digital slides is an important aspect of digital pathology implementation. While the most common reason for color variation is the variance in the proto...
Authors: Yukako Yagi
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Automated image analysis on virtual slides is evolving rapidly and will play an important role in the future of digital pathology. Due to the image size, the computational cost of processing whole slide images...
Authors: Norman Zerbe, Peter Hufnagl and Karsten Schlüns
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Collaborative Digital Anatomic Pathology refers to the use of information technology that supports the creation and sharing or exchange of information, including data and images, during the complex workflow pe...
Authors: Christel Daniel, François Macary, Marcial García Rojo, Jacques Klossa, Arvydas Laurinavičius, Bruce A Beckwith and Vincenzo Della Mea PhD
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The Matlab software is a one of the most advanced development tool for application in engineering practice. From our point of view the most important is the image processing toolbox, offering many built-in fun...
Authors: Tomasz Markiewicz
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Digital pathology, i.e., applications of digital information technologies to pathology practice, has been expanding in the recent decades and the mode of pathology diagnostic practice is changing with enhanced...
Authors: Yasunari Tsuchihashi
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The rationale for choosing a remote quantitative method supporting a diagnostic decision requires some empirical studies and knowledge on scenarios including valid telepathology standards. The tumours of the c...
Authors: Janina Słodkowska, Tomasz Markiewicz, Bartłomiej Grala, Wojciech Kozłowski, Wielisław Papierz, Katarzyna Pleskacz and Piotr Murawski
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Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is very accurate method for measuring HER2 gene copies, as a sign of potential breast cancer. This method requires small tissue samples, and has a high sensitivity to det...
Authors: Branimir Reljin, Milorad Paskas, Irini Reljin and Korski Konstanty
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Virtual microscopy can improve the workflow of modern pathology laboratories, a goal limited by the large size of the virtual slides (VS). Lately, determination of the Regions of Interest has shown to be usefu...
Authors: David Romo, Eduardo Romero and Fabio González
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The only realistic way to improve harmonisation of European pathology training is to define the generally accepted competencies and to test them periodically during the training programme (progress test). The ...
Authors: Jan G van den Tweel and Fred T Bosman
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As a special function of Virtual Slide (VS) for thick specimens like cytology slides, multilayer (Z-stack) simulated focus and focus fusion were introduced. From the standpoint of surgical pathologist, the opt...
Authors: Ichiro Mori, Takashi Ozaki, Emiko Taniguchi and Kennichi Kakudo
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In recent years, a number of technological advancements started to modify the long standing appearance and functionalities of traditional optical microscopes used in Pathology and other medical fields. In fact...
Authors: Donatella Intersimone, Viviana Snoj, Franca Riosa, Nicola Bortolotti, Sandi Sverko, Carlo A Beltrami and Vincenzo Della Mea
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The first appearance of the word “telepathology” in a scientific paper can be tracked down to 1986, in a famous editorial of Ronald Weinstein. Since that paper, research in telepathology grew up developing dif...
Authors: Vincenzo Della Mea
