Digital Pathology Environment

Digital pathology is extensively more than whole slide imaging (WSI); it has data security and creates an environment for handling data that consists of multi-gigabyte images that are merged. It also comprises integration of the digital pathology data management system with autostainers, converslippers, and the laboratory management system. It comprises the following elements. Conventional glass slides are converted to digital slides using a scanning device. Digital slide scanners are considered as successors of early telepathology systems that facilitated the transfer of static and dynamic images via computer networks for remote consultation and second opinion. Digital slides are accessible for viewing through computer system and viewing software either locally or remotely via the Internet. Digital slides viewers can show an overview image, along with high-power view, enabling better orientation. Showing two or more slides side-by-side is a characteristics of many slide viewers, which can be useful for analyze the same tissue contaminate with different stainings. Digital slides are sustained in an information management system that permits archival and intelligent retrieval. Educational and examination slides end up in the constant storage where they are kept without an invalidating time frame. Object-based storage offers overall redundancy of stored objects without the necessity to take incremental backups. Digital slides are maintained in a data management system that allows for archival and intelligent retrieval. Image examination tools are used to derive objective quantification procedures from digital slides. Pattern recognition and visual search tools are used to categorize specimen imagery and discover medically significant regions of digital slides. Digital pathology workflow is integrated into the institution's overall operational background. Digital pathology also permits internet information transmitting for education, diagnostics, publication and research.