RE: Regulatory requirements for images
We are developing
pathology educational imaging software for realtime interactive online
visualization of huge (20,000 to 100,000 pixels per side) path images, and have
done a fair bit of research on this - but beware, nothing definitive has
surfaced...
As far as we can
tell, pathology is 'right under the radar' for imaging regulation. As far as
medical imaging is concerned, pathology simply does not appear to exist.
Pathologists have not extensively adopted digital imaging yet, and there appear
to be no standards for image formats, acceptable quality, or storage systems in
place yet. DICOM, for example, has no pathology imaging modalities,
although DICOM 3.0 has/had (?) a ballot under consideration for a
'Pathology Visible Light Image' supplement. Seems not to go far
enough.
We are in the
process of building a specialized pathology archiving and retrieval system
for large path images, and as far as we know, most other solutions are
'home-brewed' from commercial non-pathology solutions, since regulation is not
in place.
Hope this
helps,
Kemp Watson
Aurora InterActive
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