Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Hum Pathol. 2010 May;41(5):751-7. doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2009.08.026. Epub 2010 Feb 4.
Digital slide scanners for scanning glass slides are becoming increasingly popular because current scanners are fast enough and produce good enough images for diagnostic purposes, education, and research. Also, the price for storing vast amounts of data has decreased over the last years, and this trend is expected to continue. Where most laboratories use their scanners mainly for education and research with limited financial and technical implications, we decided to face the huge challenges of prospectively setting up a fully digital pathology slide archive, primarily aiming to optimize the preparation and running of clinicopathological conferences. In this article, we describe the setup of our digital archiving solution and discuss the technical challenges we had to overcome. To give insight in the performance of our digital archive, we provide some statistics as well. We also present our thoughts on future developments in the area of digital slide scanning.
数字玻片扫描仪用于扫描玻片，越来越受欢迎，因为当前的扫描仪速度足够快，并且可以生成足够好的图像用于诊断、教育和研究。此外，过去几年存储大量数据的成本已经降低，而且这种趋势预计还将继续。大多数实验室主要将其扫描仪用于具有有限财务和技术影响的教育和研究，我们决定面对建立一个完全数字化病理切片存档的巨大挑战，主要目的是优化临床病理会议的准备和运行。在本文中，我们描述了我们的数字存档解决方案的设置，并讨论了我们必须克服的技术挑战。为了深入了解我们数字档案的性能，我们还提供了一些统计信息。我们还介绍了我们对数字玻片扫描领域未来发展的一些想法。
