digital pathology landscape 2016
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The landscape for digital pathology anno 2016
Yves Sucaet, PhDDiabetes Research Center
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Why this presentation?
• Successful roll-out of digital pathology requires more than a whole slide scanner.
• Different end-users require customized user interfaces.
• Various datastores and image repositories need to integrate.
• We wish we would have had this presentation available as we embarked upon our digital pathology adventure though.
• It’s worthwhile to map the different stakeholders, and we hope you can now benefit from our experience
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Different stakeholders
Digital Pathology and Whole
Slide Imaging
Scanner vendors
(AP)LI(M)S vendors
PACS vendors
Regulators, standards,
and governments
Universal viewing and
sharing
Image analysis
Other users and
stakeholders
Conference organizers
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Overall landscape
• Scanner vendors• (AP)LI(L)S vendors• PACS vendors• Regulators, standard organizations, and
governments• Universal viewers• Image analysis software• Conference organizors• Other stakeholders
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Stakeholder: scanner vendor
• What do they do?• Build the hardware to convert glass slides to pixels• Capture brightfield, fluorescence, z-stacking, time-lapse…
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Stakeholder: (AP)LI(M)S vendor
• What do they do?• Organize the workflow around the glass slide; • Present the right slide to the right person at the right time
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Stakeholder: PACS vendor
• What do they do?• Manage the (imaging) data• Store, retrieve, archive, distribute
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Stakeholder: Regulators, standards, and governments
• What do they do?• Direct market and technology developments• Make sure everybody is well-behaved and plays nice
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Stakeholder: Universal viewers
• What do they do?• Distribute content in a uniform manner to multiple devices• Let end-users focus on what to do, rather than how to do it.
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Stakeholder: Image analysis software
• What do they do?– Big data, data mining, decision support– Automate manual process flows for large collections
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Stakeholder: conference organizer
• What do they do?– Present content to as many people as possible – Present content in a user-friendly environment
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Other stakeholders
• What do they do?– Operate in different geographical locales– Organize and represent people with common goals
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Digital pathology at the VUB
• A subset of VUB-specific applications are available to the public via http://www.diabetesbiobank.org.
• Integrates five different imaging platforms onto a single architecture.– Stores data from all modalities in a single storage
facility– Manage it through a single access point– Render content to any type of display device
• No need for extra software or background information concerning the content’s origin
– Present web-accessible interfaces to the right end-users at the right time
