Telepathology: System Design And Specifications

Ronald S. Weinstein; Kenneth J. Bloom; L. Susan Rozek

doi:10.1117/12.976531

13 October 1987 Telepathology: System Design And Specifications

Ronald S. Weinstein, Kenneth J. Bloom, L. Susan Rozek

Proceedings Volume 0845, Visual Communications and Image Processing II; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.976531
Event: Cambridge Symposium on Optics in Medicine and Visual Image Processing, 1987, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Telepathology is a new field of medicine encompassing the practice of pathology at a distance by visualizing an image of tissue and/or cells on a video monitor rather than viewing the specimen directly through a microscope. Essential components of a telepathology system include: 1- a fully motorized microscope equipped with a high resolution video camera at a remote site where the patient is located: 2- a pathologist's workstation that incorporates the controls for manipulating the remote microscope and a high-resolution video monitor at a Physician's Imaging Center (tm) and 3- a communications linkage between the remote site and the Physician's Imaging Center. Such a system has been constructed and its usefulness has been demonstrated using a SBS 3 satellite for video transmission and remote control of the robotic microscope.

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Ronald S. Weinstein, Kenneth J. Bloom, and L. Susan Rozek "Telepathology: System Design And Specifications", Proc. SPIE 0845, Visual Communications and Image Processing II, (13 October 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.976531

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