Digital pathology fuels UCLA sub-specialty pathology program
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (UCLA) in Los Angeles, Calif., and Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University (ZHU), are using Aperio’s Digital Pathology System to support sub-specialty pathology consultations.
Aperio’s scanning technology allows Chinese pathologists to capture a digital slide image at high resolution of the entire tissue sample on a glass slide and share it with pathology experts at UCLA in a secure web-based environment. More than 100 cases have been remotely reviewed to date, according to the Vista, Calif. provider of digital pathology technology.
Jonathan Braun, MD, PhD, chair of pathology and laboratory medicine, and professor of molecular and medical pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, stated, “Digital pathology allows UCLA to offer the advanced skills of our sub-specialty pathologists to China in real time when a specific type of pathology expertise is needed quickly on a difficult or complex case.”
UCLA and ZHU pathologists also participate in frequent digital slide conferences to review individual cases. Pathologists can view annotations on the digital slide image created by other reviewers, while simultaneously adding annotations for others to see. A common cursor superimposed on the digital slide is visible and can be manipulated by all conference participants. The hospitals are also conducting multi-disciplinary conferences, where experts across various disciplines convene to discuss difficult cases.
Aperio’s scanning technology allows Chinese pathologists to capture a digital slide image at high resolution of the entire tissue sample on a glass slide and share it with pathology experts at UCLA in a secure web-based environment. More than 100 cases have been remotely reviewed to date, according to the Vista, Calif. provider of digital pathology technology.
Jonathan Braun, MD, PhD, chair of pathology and laboratory medicine, and professor of molecular and medical pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, stated, “Digital pathology allows UCLA to offer the advanced skills of our sub-specialty pathologists to China in real time when a specific type of pathology expertise is needed quickly on a difficult or complex case.”
UCLA and ZHU pathologists also participate in frequent digital slide conferences to review individual cases. Pathologists can view annotations on the digital slide image created by other reviewers, while simultaneously adding annotations for others to see. A common cursor superimposed on the digital slide is visible and can be manipulated by all conference participants. The hospitals are also conducting multi-disciplinary conferences, where experts across various disciplines convene to discuss difficult cases.