Department of Pathology, Division of Pathology Informatics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Presbyterian Hospital, A610, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213-2546, USA.
Clinical Department Systems, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, 15213, PA, USA.
J Digit Imaging. 2017 Oct;30(5):555-560. doi: 10.1007/s10278-017-9946-9.
Digital pathology is becoming technically possible to implement for routine pathology work. At our institution, we have been using digital pathology for second opinion intraoperative consultations for over 10 years. Herein, we describe our experience in converting to a digital pathology platform for primary pathology diagnosis. We implemented an incremental rollout for digital pathology on subspecialty benches, beginning with cases that contained small amounts of tissue (biopsy specimens). We successfully scanned over 40,000 slides through our digital pathology system. Several lessons (both challenges and opportunities) were learned through this implementation. A successful conversion to digital pathology requires pre-imaging adjustments, integrated software and post-imaging evaluations.
数字化病理在技术上正逐步成为常规病理工作的可能。在我们的机构中,我们已经将数字化病理用于 10 多年的术中二次会诊。在此,我们描述了我们将数字化病理应用于初级病理诊断的经验。我们在专科工作台上逐步实施数字化病理,从包含少量组织(活检标本)的病例开始。我们通过数字病理系统成功扫描了超过 40000 张幻灯片。通过这一实施,我们学到了一些经验(既有挑战也有机遇)。成功的数字化病理转换需要预成像调整、集成软件和后成像评估。