Open AccessWhole slide images technology: preliminary experience in clinical microbiology
Author(s) -
Enrico Magliano,
Tshering Dorji,
Giovanni Fellegara,
Davide Guarneri,
Vittorio Grazioli
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
microbiologia medica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2280-6423
pISSN - 1120-0146
DOI - 10.4081/mm.2013.2285
Subject(s) - scanner , computer science , key (lock) , computer graphics (images) , the internet , virtual microscopy , computer vision , artificial intelligence , world wide web , medicine , pathology , computer security
Today the “whole slide images” (virtual slides) is an important tool also in clinical microbiology. Virtual microscopy consists of digitizing a glass slide acquiring hundred of tiles of areas of interest at different resolution levels, and assembling them in a structured file. We shortly report the key elements of this technology from the acquisition of the image using a scanner, to the broadcasting of virtual slides to a distant viewer over an internet connection