Telepathology Consultation Database System

• Main Authors: Chang-Shi Cheng, 鄭常喜
• Other Authors: Shenn-Tsong Young
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60791938276618118710

碩士 === 國立陽明大學 === 醫學工程研究所 === 89 === Because pathologists are rare in Taiwan, the patients’ pathological sections need to be delivered to the pathology department in the teaching or central hospitals. All pathological sections must be consulted by the pathologists and than generated the pathology reports. Base on these reports, the clinical doctors can judge whether perform a surgical operation or not. On the other hand, DICOM 3.0 standard already standardize the format of medical images as CT, MRI, Ultrasound. Since pathology images are too complicated to analyze, and the volume of one section’s all magnifying power image is very great, there is no appropriate solution up to today. In this thesis we discuss the implementation and use of a system, which can collect all of the pathological section images automatically and rapidly. For digitizing purpose, they will be saved as DICOM VL format. The System includes two parts: Automatically move and snap on LabVIEW interface, database consultation system on a WWW browser. The technologists can control the microscopy auto-stage either manual or let the program automatically snap specific magnifying power’s image, the program also provides the review of the snapping images. After collect all images, the program will save the images as DICOM VL format into the pathology database. Pathologists who in distance place can diagnose and write reports by judging from the collection of all images in the database on a WWW browser. We also discuss the pathology sections’ volume and characteristic in the thesis.