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. 2003:2003:846.

The Virtual Slide Set - a curriculum development system for digital microscopy

Katsura Fujita  1 , Rebecca S Crowley
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The Virtual Slide Set - a curriculum development system for digital microscopy

Katsura Fujita et al. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2003.

Abstract

We describe the development of a Virtual Slide System for creating and viewing clinico-pathologic cases with embedded interactive digital microscopy. The system supports rich text-to-image annotation, including (1) hotlinks of text descriptions that move the student to the correct part of the slide, and (2) annotations such as arrows and circles that appear on the Virtual Slide on request. The interface can be configured by the student to alter the degree of guidance the system provides. The authoring layer provides a graphical user interface to authors for creating new case sets, cases, questions, and annotated virtual slides, which are saved to a database and automatically added to the Virtual Slide homepage. The system has been used in two pilot studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Student Interface showing Virtual Slide in “Annotate” mode. Text hyperlinks on right move the slide and show annotations.
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References

    1. Dick, F. Implementation of Virtual Microscopy in a Histology and Pathology Course. Sixth Annual Conference on Advancing Pathology Informatics, Imaging and the Internet. Pittsburgh, PA October 4–6, 2002.
    1. Afework A, Benyon M, Bustamante F, et al. Digital Dynamic Telepathology –the Virtual Microscope. Proc AMIA Symp. 1998:912–916. - PMC - PubMed

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