Patent ID: 8781261

Claim:
A system for viewing a digital slide image stored as a Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) study, the system comprising: a data storage area that stores a plurality of DICOM studies, wherein each of the plurality of DICOM studies corresponds to a single digital slide image at a plurality of resolutions and comprises a plurality of DICOM series, wherein each of the plurality of DICOM series corresponds to the single digital slide image at a single resolution and comprises a plurality of DICOM image files, wherein each of the plurality of DICOM image files corresponds to a portion of the single digital slide image at the single resolution; at least one hardware processor; and an image viewer module configured to, when executed by the at least one hardware processor, receive a first request for at least a first portion of a first digital slide image at a first resolution, and, in response to the first request, retrieve two or more first ones of a plurality of DICOM image files from a first DICOM series, corresponding to the first resolution, of a first DICOM study, corresponding to the first digital slide image, and align image data from the retrieved two or more first DICOM image files to create a first contiguous digital image of the requested at least a first portion of the first digital slide image at the first resolution.