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Institute for Medical
Informatics, announces iPhone application for virtual microscopy
MMD Newswire
January 7, 2008
The Institute for Medical Informatics, Rikshospitalet, Oslo
University Hospital, announces it has developed what it believes
to be the first remote application for review of pathology
images for the Apple iPhone.
The application allows for a remote pathologist to review and
navigate high quality images of diagnostic quality using either
the cellular network or WIFI networks on the iPhone. Using the
application rapid specialist referrals can be made, without
access to a computer, a microscope or the original specimen. The
image can be reviewed by the pathologist and used to provide a
diagnosis used in cancer and other disease treatments. |
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Dr B. Risberg, Pathologist at
the Rikshospital, Oslo says “Telepathology applications have
been around for many years now and have shown their use in
patient care. The portability combined with the image quality of
this virtual microscopy system is a unique solution to providing
input into the treatment of a patient regardless of my or the
treating hospital’s location. I can even provide input while on
vacation”.
The system consists of a generic high quality microscope slide
scanner, of which there are several currently on the market. A
server where the images are located and the iPhone. The iPhone
is used to access the large image that is stored in the server
but only to retrieve relevant parts. Using the multi-touch
interface that the iPhone provides, an intuitive interface is
provided that allows the user to navigate and view images of
interest in a similar way to that provided by Google Earth.
There are plans to put this system into immediate trials prior
to consideration of its integration into our patient treatment
workflow.
About the Institute for Medical Informatics, Oslo
Was founded in 2004 to be a leading site nationality and
internationally for the new field merging medicine and computer
science into Medical Informatics. |
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