Abstract
The virtual slides (VS) of routine H&E stained pathology slides from a rural hospital were diagnosed through internet from Tokyo, about 500 km from the hospital.
Highlights
In recent years, Japan has been short of pathologists
* Correspondence: ichiro-m@iuhw.ac.jp † Contributed 1Department of Pathology, Mita hospital, International University of Health and Welfare, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan Full list of author information is available at the end of the article. We started this system in July 2011, and continue to diagnose about 80 cases each month resulting in more than 800 primary diagnosis
The VS images were clear enough and we could diagnose most of the routine HE slides with no incident
Summary
There are about 2,000 board-certified pathologists against 130 million people. Most pathologists are working in the urban area and only few are available in rural regions. Telepathology in Japan developed under these circumstances, mainly for intraoperative frozen section diagnosis where no pathologist is available. We have been performing frozen section telepathology for more than 10 years, and achieved fairly good results [1]. We constructed a web-based remote diagnosis system using virtual slide targeting routine pathology slides
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