Mori Ichiro
International University of Health and Welfare, Narita, Chiba, Japan.
Acta Histochem Cytochem. 2022 Jun 29;55(3):85-91. doi: 10.1267/ahc.22-00009. Epub 2022 Jun 25.
A whole slide image (WSI) is a digitized microscopic image that is particularly useful in histochemistry and cytochemistry. Several WSI scanners have been introduced in Japan and all use their own native format. Thus, there is basically no interchangeability. However, the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard format for WSI has been available since 2010. In this review, the configuration and differences among the native WSI and DICOM formats are examined, and the advantages and issues of DICOM standardization are discussed.
全切片图像(WSI)是一种数字化的微观图像,在组织化学和细胞化学中特别有用。日本已经推出了几款WSI扫描仪,它们都使用自己的原生格式。因此,基本上不存在互换性。然而,自2010年以来,WSI的医学数字成像和通信(DICOM)标准格式已经可用。在这篇综述中,研究了原生WSI格式和DICOM格式的配置及差异,并讨论了DICOM标准化的优点和问题。