Automated cytology/histology viewers and related methods

摘要

Methods, systems, workstations, viewers, grossing stations and computer include a display and a viewer circuit configured to cause the display to concurrently display: (i) a macroscopic view of a grossing specimen with virtual cut location marks associated with orientation and location of actual physical cut locations used to obtain tissue samples from the grossing specimen and (ii) at least one digital microscopic whole-slide image (WSI) of a tissue section from the specimen. The display can show the at least one WSI image on the display with a relevant cut location mark on the macroscopic view shown visually enhanced from other cut location marks on the macroscopic view to thereby allow a user to visually connect where the tissue section in the WSI image was obtained during a grossing procedure.

主权项

1. A method of obtaining and/or processing digital pathology and cytology images for viewing, comprising:
automatically electronically identifying a location on or in a grossing specimen where at least one color is applied to an external surface area of the grossing specimen or an external surface of dissected tissue of the grossing specimen as an external surface marking during a grossing procedure; and automatically electronically generating virtual color location marks on a digital macroscopic image or model of the grossing specimen based on the electronic identification such that the virtual color location marks are elongate and have a correct spatial position on the image or model of the grossing specimen correlated to the location where the at least one color is applied on the grossing specimen.