Image selection in static telepathology through the Internet.
J Telemed Telecare
; 4 Suppl 1: 20-2, 1998.
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ABSTRACT
A telepathology study was carried out to examine the differences occurring when the images were selected by an experienced pathologist, a junior pathologist and a first-year resident. One hundred and fifty-five consecutive frozen-section pathology cases were collected and sent for consultation to a remote experienced pathologist using multimedia email. Local diagnoses (as reported in the files of the Institute, not from the image selector) and remote diagnoses (based on the images) were compared with those performed on paraffin-embedded sections. Acquisition time and number of selected images were recorded for each case and used to compare the different behaviour of the three local pathologists. Of the 155 cases sent by telepathology, four were considered insufficient for a diagnosis by the remote pathologist and thus the diagnosis was postponed. In the remaining 151 cases, the overall diagnostic agreement between remote and definitive diagnosis was 96.7%. The results indicate that in the routine diagnostic work of a frozen-section service, an inexperienced pathologist can select images which are sufficiently informative for a remote diagnosis, in a sufficiently short time.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Patología Clínica
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Redes de Comunicación de Computadores
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Presentación de Datos
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Telepatología
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Telemed Telecare
Asunto de la revista:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
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SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Año:
1998
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Italia