A Collaborative Digital Pathology System for Multi‐Touch Mobile and Desktop Computing Platforms

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dc.contributor.authorJeong, W.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSchneider, J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorHansen, A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorLee, M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorTurney, S. G.en_US
dc.contributor.authorFaulkner‐Jones, B. E.en_US
dc.contributor.authorHecht, J. L.en_US
dc.contributor.authorNajarian, R.en_US
dc.contributor.authorYee, E.en_US
dc.contributor.authorLichtman, J. W.en_US
dc.contributor.authorPfister, H.en_US
dc.contributor.editorHolly Rushmeier and Oliver Deussenen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-28T16:07:18Z
dc.date.available2015-02-28T16:07:18Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractCollaborative slide image viewing systems are becoming increasingly important in pathology applications such as telepathology and E‐learning. Despite rapid advances in computing and imaging technology, current digital pathology systems have limited performance with respect to remote viewing of whole slide images on desktop or mobile computing devices. In this paper we present a novel digital pathology client–server system that supports collaborative viewing of multi‐plane whole slide images over standard networks using multi‐touch‐enabled clients. Our system is built upon a standard HTTP web server and a MySQL database to allow multiple clients to exchange image and metadata concurrently. We introduce a domain‐specific image‐stack compression method that leverages real‐time hardware decoding on mobile devices. It adaptively encodes image stacks in a decorrelated colour space to achieve extremely low bitrates (0.8 bpp) with very low loss of image quality. We evaluate the image quality of our compression method and the performance of our system for diagnosis with an in‐depth user study.Collaborative slide image viewing systems are becoming increasingly important in pathology applications such as telepathology and E‐learning. Despite rapid advances in computing and imaging technology, current digital pathology systems have limited performance with respect to remote viewing of whole slide images on desktop or mobile computing devices. In this paper we present a novel digital pathology client‐server systems that supports collaborative viewing of multi‐plane whole slide images over standard networks using multi‐touch enabled clients. Our system is built upon a standard HTTP web server and a MySQL database to allow multiple clients to exchange image and metadata concurrently.en_US
dc.description.number6
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume32
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.12137en_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12137en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectbiomedical image visualizationen_US
dc.subjectcollaborative visualizationen_US
dc.subjectGPUen_US
dc.subjectimage compressionen_US
dc.subjectdigital pathologyen_US
dc.subjectComputer Graphics [I.3.2]en_US
dc.subjectGraphics systemsen_US
dc.subjectdistributed/network graphicsen_US
dc.subjectComputer Graphics [I.3.8]en_US
dc.subjectApplicationsen_US
dc.titleA Collaborative Digital Pathology System for Multi‐Touch Mobile and Desktop Computing Platformsen_US
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