ArticleJournal of pathology informatics2012
Whole slide imaging for educational purposes.
Article in Journal of pathology informatics, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.
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Who cites it
36 citing papers in PubMed, 106 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) in Pathology: Emerging Trends and Future Applications in Clinical Diagnostics, Medical Education, and Pathology.Iranian journal of pathology · 2025Review
- Online, Interactive, Digital Visualisation Resources that Enhance Histology Education.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023Article
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- Experience Reviewing Digital Pap Tests using a Gallery of Images.Journal of pathology informatics · 2021Article
- Deep Adversarial Training for Multi-Organ Nuclei Segmentation in Histopathology Images.IEEE transactions on medical imaging · 2020Article
- Precise Identification of Cell and Tissue Features Important for Histopathologic Diagnosis by a Whole Slide Imaging System.Journal of pathology informatics · 2020Article
- Virtual microscopy enhances the reliability and validity in histopathology curriculum: Practical guidelines.MedEdPublish (2016) · 2019Article
- Improving Medical Students' Understanding of Pediatric Diseases through an Innovative and Tailored Web-based Digital Pathology Program with Philips Pathology Tutor (Formerly PathXL).Journal of pathology informatics · 2019Article
- Interactive Digital Microscopy at the Center for a Cross-Continent Undergraduate Pathology Course in Mozambique.Journal of pathology informatics · 2018Article
- Training a cell-level classifier for detecting basal-cell carcinoma by combining human visual attention maps with low-level handcrafted features.Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) · 2017Article
- Comparing the use of virtual and conventional light microscopy in practical sessions: Virtual reality in Tabuk University.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2017Article
- Student-focused virtual histology education: Do new scenarios and digital technology matter?MedEdPublish (2016) · 2017Article
- Turning Microscopy in the Medical Curriculum Digital: Experiences from The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at University of Copenhagen.Journal of pathology informatics · 2017Article
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4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Digitized slides produced by whole slide image scanners can be easily shared over a network or by transferring image files to optical or other data storage devices. Navigation of digitized slides is interactive and intended to simulate viewing glass slides with a microscope (virtual microscopy). Image viewing software permits users to edit, annotate, analyze, and easily share whole slide images (WSI). As a result, WSI have begun to replace the traditional light microscope, offering a myriad of opportunities for education. This article focuses on current applications of WSI in education and proficiency testing. WSI has been successfully explored for graduate education (medical, dental, and veterinary schools), training of pathology residents, as an educational tool in allied pathology schools (e.g., cytotechnology), for virtual tracking and tutoring, tele-education (tele-conferencing), e-learning, virtual workshops, at tumor boards, with interactive publications, and on examinations. WSI supports flexible and cost-effective distant learning and augments problem-oriented teaching, competency evaluation, and proficiency testing. WSI viewed on touchscreen displays and with tablet technology are especially beneficial for education. Further investigation is necessary to develop superior WSI applications that better support education and to design viewing stations with ergonomic tools that improve the WSI-human interface and navigation of virtual slides. Studies to determine the impact of training pathologists without exposure to actual glass slides are also needed.
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