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Between January and December 2009, 26 children (median age 2; 5 years, 12 females and 14 males) with suspected or proven malignant solid tumors have been discussed in 11 telemicroscopic conferences by international cooperators. CONCLUSION: This cooperation demonstrates the proof of principle to obta...
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PMID: 20514632
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The vast advancements in telecommunications and converting medical information to a digital format have increased the number of applications within telemedicine. Telepathology, in simplest terms, is the practice of formally rendering a pathologic diagnosis based upon examination of an image rather t...
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PMID: 20179435
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The paper approaches a new technological scenario relevant for the introduction of the digital cytology (D-CYT) in the health service. A detailed analysis of the state of the art on the status of the introduction of D-CYT in the hospital and more in general in the dispersed territory has been conduc...
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PMID: 20567061
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Up to date, tele-pathology in the three different forms of application, "dynamic", "static" and "virtual microscopy" has been mainly based on tele-hystology remote consulting. Today the diffusion of specialized WAN connections is guiding the research of new applications of tele-pathology. A specific...
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PMID: 20567064
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Today thanks to the technological advances in information technology the scenario of utilization of digital cytology has radically changed. New competitive systems, such as client-server architectures are now available in digital cytology. Their application in telemedicine should be investigated. A...
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PMID: 20567062
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The paper describes a fundamental feature of digital cytology relevant to the implementation of the technology in the hospital net services: the electronic recording of the virtual slides (VS) in the hospital information system (HIS) through a picture archiving and communication system (PACS). Start...
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PMID: 20567063
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A regional experience environment in virtual microscopy and digital pathology comprehending the digital cytology is presented. The project has been conducted in Emilia-Romagna and it has been planned for the promotion and the quality assessment in screening cytology and histology for the prevention...
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PMID: 20567065
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This project allowed the resumption of screening of over 38% of the cohort of known diabetics who reported never having undergone any eye examination with pupil dilation, and an additional 30% who reported not having been examined for over 2 years. All known diabetics were under the care of a genera...
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PMID: 19020631
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We evaluated a telepathology system for consultation between residents and faculty for assessment of FNA specimen adequacy and preliminary diagnosis using 100 consecutive cases. We compared findings with the original assessment of adequacy, preliminary interpretation, and final diagnosis. Two reside...
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PMID: 18701414
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Alexandra Lajoie,
Susan Koreen,
Lu Wang,
Steven A Kane,
Thomas C Lee,
David J Weissgold,
Audina M Berrocal,
Yunling E Du,
Osode Coki,
John T Flynn,
Justin Starren and
Michael F Chiang
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Single-image and multiple-image telemedicine examinations perform comparably for determination of recommended follow-up interval and detection of plus disease. This may have implications for development of screening protocols, particularly in areas with limited access to ophthalmic care....
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PMID: 18547536
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Intraphysician agreement between ophthalmoscopic examination and telemedical interpretation for ROP was very high. Neither examination modality appeared to have a systematic tendency to overdiagnose or underdiagnose ROP. Diagnosis of zone 1 disease and plus disease were major sources of clinically s...
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PMID: 18456337
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Dermatology is perhaps the most visual specialty in medicine, making it ideally suited for modern telemedicine techniques, as has been shown in a number of recent studies investigating feasibility and reliability of teledermatology. It has generally demonstrated high levels of concordance in diagnos...
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PMID: 18833064
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MEKOC microscopy complexes have a group of specialized automatic functions for medical analyses of biomaterials integrated with general virtual microscopy accessories. Such functions provide a way of making specialized reference virtual slides (RVS). The latter contain the results of virtual analysi...
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PMID: 18720736
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We have used. To be implemented successfully, the distribution of pathology education requires considerable financial and infrastructure investment, and ongoing commitment from pathologists and university administrators....
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PMID: 18538169
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A retrospective set of 191 gynecologic cytology slides with reference interpretations was run on an automated screening device that selects fields of view (FOVs) based on a hierarchical probability of abnormality being present. An interface was developed between the device and a remote server using...
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PMID: 18426727
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Individuals were asked to grade a series of 20 tumours. Data from 104 pathologists surveyed indicates that agreement using both two and three grade systems is at best fair. CONCLUSION: Given that for the foreseeable future the histopathological criteria of stage and grade will still provide the main...
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PMID: 18315602
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Teledermatopathology can be defined as a telemedicine application related to histological diagnosis of cutaneous specimens. Its development and implementation around the world is very heterogeneous due to the wide range of existing geographical, social and healthcare conditions. This paper reviews t...
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PMID: 18486021
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Virtual microscopy has many advantages over real microscopy in oral and maxillofacial pathology education. Furthermore, telepathology could also be applied in other pathological services, such as intraoperative frozen sections, routine surgical pathology, and subspecialty consultation....
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PMID: 17689118
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Dermatology is perhaps the most visual specialty in medicine, making it ideally suited for modern telemedicine techniques, as has been shown in a number of recent studies investigating feasibility and reliability of teledermatology. It has generally demonstrated high levels of concordance in diagnos...
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PMID: 18486032
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David Ameisen,
Béatrice Vergier,
Olivier Hauchecorne,
Philippe Camparo,
Haitham Kussaibi,
Jacqueline Rivet,
Philippe Leca,
Christel Daniel,
Luc Legrès,
Philippe Ratajczak,
Christophe Leboeuf,
Anne Janin and
Philippe Bertheau
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Digital microscopy enables several observers to look at any field of one microscopical section, at any magnification, through an Internet connexion. An overview of the systems used to digitize microscopy slides and to put them on line is presented. This technique is already used in many fields of pa...
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PMID: 18538710
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Our results showed that robotic telepathology is sufficiently accurate for primary diagnosis in surgical pathology, but modifications in laboratory protocols, telepathology hardware, and internet speed are needed to reduce the time necessary for diagnosis by telepathology before this method may be d...
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PMID: 17950781
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Despite speculation that Telemicroscopy and Digital Microscopy will follow the same diffusion curves as their counterparts in the world of Radiology - Teleradiology and Filmless Radiology, no study has offered definitive evidence in support of this hypothesis. To address this gap in the informatics...
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PMID: 18998984
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The Virtual Slide (VS) is an interactive microscope emulator that presents a complete digitized tissue section via the Internet. A successful implementation of VS has been observed for educational, research venues and quality control. VS acquisition for consultative pathology is not so common. The p...
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PMID: 18296275
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We have established a low-cost noncommercial system of dynamic real-time telepathology for light microscopic diagnosis that was used to aid intradepartmental consultation for frozen-section diagnosis. Fifty cases were performed. For each case, multiple diagnoses were made and compared, namely, those...
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PMID: 17900654
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We developed a newly designed telepathology workstation, which includes a small file size of each slide, permitting easy transmission, storage, and manipulation, and a feedback function, and also evaluated its feasibility in surgical pathology in China. Four hundred cases covering a broad spectrum o...
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PMID: 17868776
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The delivery of medical services through the use of modern technology is proving of significant benefit, particularly in remote communities where transportation of patients and medical practitioners is problematic. Technical systems supporting telemedicine-based consultations have been available for...
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PMID: 18251419
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Michael F Chiang,
Lu Wang,
Mihai Busuioc,
Yunling E Du,
Patrick Chan,
Steven A Kane,
Thomas C Lee,
David J Weissgold,
Audina M Berrocal,
Osode Coki,
John T Flynn and
Justin Starren
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At 35 to 37 weeks' PMA, sensitivity and specificity for diagnosis of mild or worse ROP were 0.908 and 1.000 for grader A, 0.971 and 1.000 for grader B, and 0.908 and 0.977 for grader C. Sensitivity and specificity for diagnosis of type 2 prethreshold or worse ROP were 1.000 and 0.943 for grader A, 1...
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PMID: 17998515
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We examined responses to an online quiz consisting of 15 NSCLCs adjacent to or involving the visceral pleura. Of 103 participants from 22 countries, 84.5% were in academic practice; 42.7% had a subspecialty interest in pulmonary pathology. Interobserver percentage agreement about whether VPI was pre...
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PMID: 17875516
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The objective of this study is to analyze the deferrals in static telepathology consultation service. A store and forward approach is used to transmit cases from two remotely located rural centers to Tata Memorial Hospital. A total of 346 tele-surgical pathology cases were accessioned for second opi...
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PMID: 18306541
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A modified ETDRS protocol (stereoscopic images of fields 1 and 2 only) with 16:1 JPEG image compression and computer-assisted ETDRS grading algorithm has excellent reproducibility when compared to standard ETDRS stereoscopic slide-film photography. An internet-based teleophthalmology system can corr...
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PMID: 17368543
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We tested a telepathology system using an ultra portable computer with a 4.5-in diagonal screen (scrolled image size of 2.5 x 1.75 in, width x height) and both wireless Local Area Network (LAN) final connection from a DSL and wireless Wide Area Network (WAN) telecommunications. The diagnostic agreem...
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PMID: 17555793
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We describe our experience in providing remote intraoperative neuropathologic consultations over a 5-year period, from 2002 to 2006. Several approaches are discussed, with emphasis on the current system and the evolution of imaging technology. Diagnostic outcomes are compared among >400 telepatholog...
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PMID: 17882019
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There have been several important developments in the practice of histopathology since World War II; those reviewed in this lecture are grouped under 4 headings: new techniques (cytopathology, electron microscopy, immunohistochemistry and molecular pathology), organisational issues (recruitment, tra...
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PMID: 17767342
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Cesare Massone,
H Peter Soyer,
Gian Piero Lozzi,
Alessandro Di Stefani,
Bernd Leinweber,
Gerald Gabler,
Masoud Asgari,
Renata Boldrini,
Leonardo Bugatti,
Vincenzo Canzonieri,
Gerardo Ferrara,
Kazuo Kodama,
Darius Mehregan,
Franco Rongioletti,
Shahbaz A Janjua,
Vahid Mashayekhi,
Ismini Vassilaki,
Bernhard Zelger,
Borut Zgavec,
Lorenzo Cerroni and
Helmut Kerl
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We investigated the feasibility and diagnostic agreement of a virtual slide system (VSS) in teledermatopathology. Forty-six biopsy specimens from inflammatory skin diseases were selected and scanned with a VSS at the Research Unit of Teledermatology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria. Images...
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PMID: 17270240
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This result provides some encouragement for the implementation of such virtual slide-based telepathology systems. However, in failing to detect a difference, equivalence of diagnostic accuracy has not been proved; nor has the relevance of this result to other fields of histopathology been demonstrat...
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PMID: 17222256
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Telepathology is a dynamic system based at the sharing of medical images coming from the microscopy that comprehends several applications. The first step of the study was evaluating the accuracy diagnostic; similar to test the proposal validity of multimedia cases transmission, as well as validating...
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PMID: 18694058
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Virtual microscopy (VM) has been implemented and evaluated in the histology and general and systemic pathology courses at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Advantages of VM over traditional microscopy include accessibility and efficiency of learning and the ability to integrate VM w...
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PMID: 18287469
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A tumour bank is a consequence of the modern medicine to follow the knowledge of bio-pathology of pre-neoplastic and neoplastic diseases in order to define diagnostic criteria and accurate therapy. It can be an independent unit but it should depend on a real or virtual net in the country or in conne...
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PMID: 18198076
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The video images were adequate for pathologic interpretation. There was agreement between conventional light microscopy and dynamic telepathology diagnosis in 19 of 20 tumors. There was complete agreement for all 20 Mohs frozen section consultations. CONCLUSION: Dynamic telepathology can be accompli...
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PMID: 17214680
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We compared live and instantaneous digital image examination of hospitalized dermatology consultation patients and to assess the reliability and the practicality of a teledermatology system equipped with the cellular phone cameras. A dermatology resident examined ten hospitalized dermatology consult...
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PMID: 18328196
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We evaluated the concordance rate and diagnostic accuracy of digital cytology slides reviewed by experienced pathologists at the University of Miami and the Ohio State University in comparison with review of conventional glass slides by the pathologist at the Mashhad University of Medical Sciences....
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PMID: 17958939
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We demonstrated for the first time that when a virtual slide reader initially looks at a virtual slide his or her eyes are very quickly attracted to regions of interest (ROIs) within the slide and that these ROIs are likely to contain diagnostic information. In a matter of seconds, critical decision...
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PMID: 17129792
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Robert D Odze,
John E Tomaszewski,
Emma E Furth,
Michael D Feldman,
Raihanatou Diallo,
Christopher Poremba,
Ingrid Becker,
Heinz Hoefler,
John R Goldblum,
Lisa A Rybicki,
Nada Alsaigh and
Franz Fogt
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Telepathology (TP) is the practice of evaluating pathology cases by the digital transmission of diagnostic slides as either static pictures (static TP) or by a continuous flow of pictures from a robotic microscopy (dynamic TP). The diagnostic efficacy of dynamic TP-based consultation services has no...
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PMID: 17016603
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We focused on the technical requirements for achievement of a correct diagnosis on digital histopathologic images. A collection of 560 melanocytic lesions was selected from the files of the Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Graz, Austria. From each lesion one histologic slide was comp...
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PMID: 17012916
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The median time to capture images was approximately 30 minutes for each case. The median time to make a telecytodiagnosis was a few seconds for each case. Overall, there was good agreement (85%) between the consensus diagnosis and the consultant's telediagnosis. In 100% of the cases there was agreem...
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PMID: 16967413
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