Patent ID: 8885900

Claim:
A method for analyzing digital slide images, the method comprising using at least one hardware processor to: receive a digital slide image acquired from a specimen on a slide; until it is determined that a quality of the digital slide image is sufficient, determine the quality of the digital slide image according to one or more analysis modules, and initiate reacquisition of the digital slide image from the specimen on the slide; and, when it is determined that the quality of the digital slide image is sufficient, provide the digital slide image to one or more recipients, provide a measure of the quality of the digital slide image to the one or more recipients, compare one or more patterns from the digital slide image to pattern information from one or more previously diagnosed cases, and, if the one or more patterns from the digital slide image match pattern information from one or more of the one or more previously diagnosed cases, provide information from each of the matched one or more previously diagnosed cases to the one or more recipients along with the digital slide image.