Image Search for Medical Imaging  - Huron Digital Pathology
Channel: Kimia Lab
Date: 2019-03-16

Huron Digital Pathology, our industry partner, is on a mission to transform glass slides into shareable knowledge. Their Scan, Index, and Search solution for pathology combines award-winning whole slide imaging hardware with powerful image search technology to connect pathologists, researchers and educators with the expertise of their colleagues to help speed up diagnosis and accelerate disease research.

Whole slide images are large and therefore difficult to search. , our industry partner, is on a mission to has developed a scanner-agnostic and IT-friendly method for indexing large archives of whole slide images so they can be quickly and easily searched. The technique is designed to batch-index existing digital slide archives and index new slides are they are added to the archive. The digital slides can either originate from Huron scanners, where they are indexed natively, or from third party scanners. The more digital slides, the better the search performance.

Huron offers an easy-to-use tool for pathologists, researchers and educators to retrieve images that are anatomically similar to the biopsy samples they are reviewing. After highlighting a region of interest, the search engine returns images with similar content along with the corresponding diagnoses. This search capability can be deployed within a single institution or across multiple networks.