Informatics
Informatics is the management of information. Pathologists, unfortunately, mostly have poor tools for this job.
Software in use at pathology departments
Information systems
- Softpath.
- CoPath.
- MEDITECH.
- Millennium.
- Nexus pas.net.
- VANTAGE.
Dictation
Content management
Biobanking management
- Centraxx.
Image analysis
Pathology wikis
- Wiki use for the dissemination of pathology knowledge is increasing.
- In the general sphere, Wikipedia is dominating and will probably continue to do so.[3]
Open source
Open source in pathology appears to be some way off. One opinion paper[4] addresses this issue.
The radiologists are more on the ball here, e.g. UCLA's OpenSourcePACS.[5]
A few institutions (mostly American) are coming to understand this and have formed the Open Digital Pathology Consortium (opendp.org). There is also an open slide project (openslide.org).
QPath is a open source software platform for whole slide image analysis.[6]
Cytomine is a web-based open source image processing and analysis software.
ASAP is an open-source whole-slide image viewer.
Whole-Slide Images
- Most common formats:
**Philips (.tiff) **Aperio (.svs, .tif) **Hamamatsu (.vms, .vmu, .ndpi) **Leica (.scn) **Sakura (.svslide) **MIRAX (.mrxs) **Ventana (.bif, .tif) **Generic tiled TIFF (.tif)
SlideJ is a plugin for ImageJ for viewing most of the above mentioned formats.[7]
- There is a push for an open virtual slide format.
- A free C library exists to read whole-slide images.[8]
Health informatics directory
- The University of Freiburg put together a list in 2010.[9]
See also
References
- ↑ URL: http://www.cytomine.be/. Accessed on: 20 April 2016.
- ↑ Marée, R.; Rollus, L.; Stévens, B.; Hoyoux, R.; Louppe, G.; Vandaele, R.; Begon, JM.; Kainz, P. et al. (Jan 2016). "Collaborative analysis of multi-gigapixel imaging data using Cytomine.". Bioinformatics. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btw013. PMID 26755625.
- ↑ Heilman, JM.; Kemmann, E.; Bonert, M.; Chatterjee, A.; Ragar, B.; Beards, GM.; Iberri, DJ.; Harvey, M. et al. (2011). "Wikipedia: a key tool for global public health promotion.". J Med Internet Res 13 (1): e14. doi:10.2196/jmir.1589. PMID 21282098.
- ↑ Rubin A (December 2004). "An open pathology computer system". J. Clin. Pathol. 57 (12): 1252–3. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.020826. PMC 1770514. PMID 15563662. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1770514/.
- ↑ Bui, AA.; Morioka, C.; Dionisio, JD.; Johnson, DB.; Sinha, U.; Ardekani, S.; Taira, RK.; Aberle, DR. et al. (Jan 2007). "OpenSourcePACS: an extensible infrastructure for medical image management.". IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed 11 (1): 94-109. PMID 17249408.
- ↑ Bankhead, P.; Loughrey, MB.; Fernández, JA.; Dombrowski, Y.; McArt, DG.; Dunne, PD.; McQuaid, S.; Gray, RT. et al. (12 2017). "QuPath: Open source software for digital pathology image analysis.". Sci Rep 7 (1): 16878. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-17204-5. PMID 29203879.
- ↑ Della Mea, V.; Baroni, GL.; Pilutti, D.; Di Loreto, C. (2017). "SlideJ: An ImageJ plugin for automated processing of whole slide images.". PLoS One 12 (7): e0180540. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0180540. PMID 28683129.
- ↑ URL: http://openslide.org/. Accessed on: 3 May 2013.
- ↑ URL: [http://hiww.org/ca.html http://hiww.org/ca.html]. Accessed on: November 8, 2014.