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RecutClub.com: An Open Source, Whole Slide Image-based Pathology Education System

BACKGROUND: Our institution's pathology unknown conferences provide educational cases for our residents. However, the cases have not been previously available digitally, have not been collated for postconference review, and were not accessible to a wider audience. Our objective was to create an...

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Autores principales: Christensen, Paul A., Lee, Nathan E., Thrall, Michael J., Powell, Suzanne Z., Chevez-Barrios, Patricia, Long, S. Wesley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5364738/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28382224
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpi.jpi_72_16
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author Christensen, Paul A.
Lee, Nathan E.
Thrall, Michael J.
Powell, Suzanne Z.
Chevez-Barrios, Patricia
Long, S. Wesley
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Lee, Nathan E.
Thrall, Michael J.
Powell, Suzanne Z.
Chevez-Barrios, Patricia
Long, S. Wesley
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description BACKGROUND: Our institution's pathology unknown conferences provide educational cases for our residents. However, the cases have not been previously available digitally, have not been collated for postconference review, and were not accessible to a wider audience. Our objective was to create an inexpensive whole slide image (WSI) education suite to address these limitations and improve the education of pathology trainees. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We surveyed residents regarding their preference between four unique WSI systems. We then scanned weekly unknown conference cases and study set cases and uploaded them to our custom built WSI viewer located at RecutClub.com. We measured site utilization and conference participation. RESULTS: Residents preferred our OpenLayers WSI implementation to Ventana Virtuoso, Google Maps API, and OpenSlide. Over 16 months, we uploaded 1366 cases from 77 conferences and ten study sets, occupying 793.5 GB of cloud storage. Based on resident evaluations, the interface was easy to use and demonstrated minimal latency. Residents are able to review cases from home and from their mobile devices. Worldwide, 955 unique IP addresses from 52 countries have viewed cases in our site. CONCLUSIONS: We implemented a low-cost, publicly available repository of WSI slides for resident education. Our trainees are very satisfied with the freedom to preview either the glass slides or WSI and review the WSI postconference. Both local users and worldwide users actively and repeatedly view cases in our study set.
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spelling pubmed-53647382017-04-05 RecutClub.com: An Open Source, Whole Slide Image-based Pathology Education System Christensen, Paul A. Lee, Nathan E. Thrall, Michael J. Powell, Suzanne Z. Chevez-Barrios, Patricia Long, S. Wesley J Pathol Inform Original Article BACKGROUND: Our institution's pathology unknown conferences provide educational cases for our residents. However, the cases have not been previously available digitally, have not been collated for postconference review, and were not accessible to a wider audience. Our objective was to create an inexpensive whole slide image (WSI) education suite to address these limitations and improve the education of pathology trainees. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We surveyed residents regarding their preference between four unique WSI systems. We then scanned weekly unknown conference cases and study set cases and uploaded them to our custom built WSI viewer located at RecutClub.com. We measured site utilization and conference participation. RESULTS: Residents preferred our OpenLayers WSI implementation to Ventana Virtuoso, Google Maps API, and OpenSlide. Over 16 months, we uploaded 1366 cases from 77 conferences and ten study sets, occupying 793.5 GB of cloud storage. Based on resident evaluations, the interface was easy to use and demonstrated minimal latency. Residents are able to review cases from home and from their mobile devices. Worldwide, 955 unique IP addresses from 52 countries have viewed cases in our site. CONCLUSIONS: We implemented a low-cost, publicly available repository of WSI slides for resident education. Our trainees are very satisfied with the freedom to preview either the glass slides or WSI and review the WSI postconference. Both local users and worldwide users actively and repeatedly view cases in our study set. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5364738/ /pubmed/28382224 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpi.jpi_72_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Journal of Pathology Informatics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Christensen, Paul A.
Lee, Nathan E.
Thrall, Michael J.
Powell, Suzanne Z.
Chevez-Barrios, Patricia
Long, S. Wesley
RecutClub.com: An Open Source, Whole Slide Image-based Pathology Education System
title RecutClub.com: An Open Source, Whole Slide Image-based Pathology Education System
title_full RecutClub.com: An Open Source, Whole Slide Image-based Pathology Education System
title_fullStr RecutClub.com: An Open Source, Whole Slide Image-based Pathology Education System
title_full_unstemmed RecutClub.com: An Open Source, Whole Slide Image-based Pathology Education System
title_short RecutClub.com: An Open Source, Whole Slide Image-based Pathology Education System
title_sort recutclub.com: an open source, whole slide image-based pathology education system
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5364738/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28382224
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpi.jpi_72_16
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