VIDEO MICROSCOPY SYSTEM AND MULTI-VIEW VIRTUAL SLIDE VIEWER CAPABLE OF SIMULTANEOUSLY ACQUIRING AND DISPLAYING VARIOUS DIGITAL VIEWS OF AN AREA OF INTEREST LOCATED ON A MICROSCOPIC SLIDE

摘要

The present invention provides a slide viewer capable of simultaneous display of more than one scan of an area of interest of a slide. The slide viewer includes a database containing at least two data files representing different scans for a same area of interest on one or multiple correlated slides or at least two different digital presentations of the same scan. The scans are views of different illumination and/or of different contrast. Associated with the database are a processor and a display. The processor retrieves data files representing different scans of the same of area of interest and displays them on the display. The present invention allows a user to simultaneously view scans of the same area of interest, where the scans are of views different from each other by either illumination and/or contrast or by the digital information content presented, and/or by the information acquired from multiple correlated slides.