Preliminary slide scanner throughput evaluation in a intensive digitization facility setting

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Whole Slide Imaging (WSI), called also Digital Microscopy, is the most current approach to digitization of histological information [1, 2]. It allows for transferring a whole histological slide into digital form, thus enabling any kind of digital treatment from storage and transmission, to telediagnosis, to automatic image analysis. WSI technologies developed only recently, and thus most uses described in literature are coming from research and teaching applications [3]. However, one acknowledged potential use of this technology is also aimed at dematerializing slide archives, by bringing them in digital form inside a so-called PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) [4]. This application would provide a major boost in the adoption of WSI in the routine work of a clinical pathology laboratory. …