ABSTRACT
While numerous clinical and business needs are driving the adoption of digital imaging in pathology, the common requirement is to take an image from an analog format — such as a microscope or a 35-mm film — to a digital format — such as a TIFF file or a JPEG file. Once digitized images can be viewed in two modes, live (real time) or stored (store and forward). In live imaging, images are captured and viewed in real time while the slide is on the microscope. With stored imaging, a digital image is captured, processed, and stored on an electronic storage medium and is viewed and/ or analyzed at a later time without requiring that the original data source, the microscopic slide, be on the image acquisition device.
