A collaborative central reviewing platform for cancer detection in digital microscopy images

Abstract

Telepathology, the practice of pathology at a long distance, has advanced continuously since 1986. Today, almost 3 decades later, virtual slide telepathology has become a promising tool for providing re-review of surgical pathology cases as part of a quality assurance program but also for educational purposes. In this paper we present the Central Review for Pathology images platform (CRP), developed by the Computational Medicine Laboratory at FORTH-ICS. The CRP is a secure cloud platform, which tries to address current issues that hamper the wider use of virtual pathology. The system offers an easy upgradable multi-format support for virtual slide files from different slide scanner vendors, enhanced collaboration capabilities and scheduling tools, a sophisticated mechanism for defining custom templates for reporting forms which adapts to all user needs and a virtual microscope viewer for the digital slides.