Paper Info
Title
A Collaborative Digital Pathology System for Multi-Touch Mobile and Desktop Computing Platforms
Abstract
Collaborative slide image viewing systems are becoming increasingly important in pathology applications such as telepathology and E-learning. Despite rapid advances in computing and imaging technology, current digital pathology systems have limited performance with respect to remote viewing of whole slide images on desktop or mobile computing devices. In this paper we present a novel digital pathology client-server system that supports collaborative viewing of multi-plane whole slide images over standard networks using multi-touch-enabled clients. Our system is built upon a standard HTTP web server and a MySQL database to allow multiple clients to exchange image and metadata concurrently. We introduce a domain-specific image-stack compression method that leverages real-time hardware decoding on mobile devices. It adaptively encodes image stacks in a decorrelated colour space to achieve extremely low bitrates 0.8﾿bpp with very low loss of image quality. We evaluate the image quality of our compression method and the performance of our system for diagnosis with an in-depth user study.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1111/cgf.12137
Comput. Graph. Forum
Keywords
Field
DocType
image compression
Mobile computing,Telepathology,Computer science,Image quality,S3 Texture Compression,Digital pathology,Theoretical computer science,Mobile device,Multimedia,Image compression,Web server
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32
6
0167-7055
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
9
Authors
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Won-Ki Jeong125720.06
Jens Schneider2151.32
A. Hansen310.36
M. Lee410.36
Stephen G. Turney510.36
Beverly E Faulkner-Jones670.92
J. L. Hecht710.36
R. Najarian810.36
E. Yee910.36
Jeff W. Lichtman1013412.41
Hanspeter Pfister115933340.59