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Posts tagged Informatics

Virtual Autopsy on a Multi-Touch Table

The Virtual Autopsy Table (developed by Norrköping Visualization Centre and the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization in Sweden) makes use of high resolution CT And MRI. The images are rendered and processed into 3D models which can be manipulated using a the table’s multi-touch interface. From the website: The technique used in this [...]

Mobile Phone-Based Light Microscopy and Image Analysis

A group of researchers at UC Berkeley has developed a portable, mobile phone-based light microscopy system (PLoS) for rapid computer-assisted analysis of clinical specimens in parts of the world where quality lab equipment or trained personnel are not available.

Virtual slide viewer powered by the Google Maps API

A team at the NYU School of Medicine’s Division of Educational Informatics has created a brilliant implementation of a virtual slide viewer using the Google Maps API. They are using their viewer to view digital slides acquired using Bacus and Aperio slide scanners.  In my opinion, this is superior in some ways to the viewers [...]

Objective Pathology

Via Keith Kaplan’s Digital Pathology Blog, I found the website for Objective Pathology, a telepathology organization “focused on enhancing and accelerating educational and diagnostic pathology workflows”. There is a lot of good stuff at their site, but my favorite is the narrated virtual slide tours – there is an example of multiple myeloma here. This [...]