Standardizing the use of whole slide images in digital pathology
Whole slide imaging/images (WSI) offers promising new perspectives for digital pathology. We launched an initiative in the anatomic pathology (AP) domain of integrating the healthcare enterprise (IHE) to define standards-based informatics transactions for integrating AP information and WSI. The IHE integration and content profiles developed as a result of this initiative successfully support the basic image acquisition and reporting processes in AP laboratories and provide a standard solution for sharing or exchanging structured AP reports in which observations can be explicitly bound to WSI or to regions of interest (ROI) in images.
standards whole slide image digital pathology anatomic pathology (ap) integrating the healthcare enterprise (ihe) diagnostic imaging hospital information system (his) laboratory information system (lis) picture archiving and communication system (pacs) health level seven (hl7) digital imaging and communications in medicine (dicom) clinical document architecture (cda) interoperability telepathology virtual microscopy