Abstract
Background: EURO-TELEPATH is a European COST Action IC0604. It started in 2007 and will end in November 2011. Its main objectives are evaluating and validating the common technological framework and communication standards required to access, transmit, and manage digital medical records by pathologists and other medical specialties in a networked environment.Business Modelling: Working Group 1, “Business Modelling in Pathology,” has designed main pathology processes – Frozen Study, Formalin Fixed Specimen Study, Telepathology, Cytology, and Autopsy – using Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN).Informatics Standards in Pathology: Working Group 2 has been dedicated to promoting the application of informatics standards in pathology, collaborating with Integrating Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM), Health Level Seven (HL7), and other standardization bodies.Conclusion: Health terminology standardization research has become a topic of great interest. Future research work should focus on standardizing automatic image analysis and tissue microarrays imaging.
Highlights
EURO-TELEPATH is a European COST Action IC0604
COST (Cooperation in Science and Technology) fosters collaboration among European research groups working in an adequate technological framework for the management of multimedia electronic healthcare records, in informatics applied to anatomic pathology, and, most importantly, in IT standards applied to digital medical images [3]
This paper describes the main work performed by WG1 and WG2 as related to IT standards in digital pathology
Summary
Some challenges we had to face during the four years of collaborative research works were the lack of experience in DICOM Supplement 145 (whole slide images) and the predominance of JPEG200 based implementations. IHE Anatomic Pathology technical framework has been validated in clinical practice. We noticed that terminology standardization research became a topic of high interest, after a pathology image standard Image scanning technology seems to be evolving slower than expected in an effective combination of speed and image quality. We have implemented a distributed pathology digital slides European database. Future COST Actions and research work should focus on standardizing automatic image analysis and tissue microarrays imaging
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