Abstract:
The objective of this project is to develop an android application to provide an easy
solution for users to submit digital pathology images to pathology experts for
consultation. Smartphones have great potential to support telepathology because they
portable, provide ubiquitous internet connectivity, contain excellent digital are
cameras, and can be easily attached to a microscope. Smart phone applications (apps)
for radiologists are on the rise. Not only do they assist the radiologist in reference to
information, but they can also aid in their day-to-day functioning too most notably
through image viewing apps known as Digital Imaging and Communications in
Medicine (DICOM) viewers. These kinds of apps signal a transition towards an
in what could be an exciting but cautious increasingly mobile medical environment
time for radiologists as these apps are not without their own concerns.
Telepathology allows the digital transmission of images for rapid
in smartphones have allowed them
access to
pathology experts. Recent technologic advances
,0 be used to acquire and transmit digital images ofthe glass slide, representing cos.
traditional forms oftelepathology. savings and efficiency gains over
can be used
, and to introduce
The aim ofthis study is to illustrate how smartphones and tablets
ing professionals, radiographers and residents
ailable for their field.
