Digital pathology ensures fewer diagnostic errors, faster and more accurate diagnoses, and improved teamwork.
FREMONT, CA: Digital pathology is essential in basic and clinical research and routine disease diagnosis. The field enables the creation of digital slides from glass slides via specialized scanning instruments. These digital slides are used to generate high-resolution images that may be seen on a computer or mobile device screen. Digital pathology employs static digital images, live video recording, and whole-slide imaging. The most recent breakthrough is whole-slide imaging, which involves scanning, digitizing, and seeing tissue and cell preparations. This renders the typical usage of light microscopes obsolete.
As a "virtual" microscope, whole slide imaging promotes primary diagnosis and teleconsultation while also improving laboratory workflow and specialist connectivity.
Despite its potential to become a gold standard, the widespread utilization of digital pathology in regular clinical diagnosis still needs to be improved by several issues. These factors include technical limitations, infrastructure expenses, regulatory data security, implementation challenges, and pathologists' technophobia. Nonetheless, the role of digital pathology in future pathology practice is becoming increasingly important. Most pathologists will soon scan tissue sections with high-resolution devices and analyze digitalized pathological data on a screen.
The benefits of digital pathology include the following:
In conventional histopathology, glass slides must be
