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Telemicroscopy (Telepathology)Collaborative Telemicroscopy is a form of virtual microscopy that permits medical facilities to share and assimilate pathology images and data electronically throughout the Smart Region. It provides a high-bandwidth, low-latency interface that makes it practical to operate equipment, manipulate specimen samples, and react to the data as effectively as if physically present. Using pathology as a focusing example, the HUBS Collaborative Telemicroscopy team is developing the capability to electronically share three of the nation's five telemicroscopy centers among four regional medical institutions using NG-VPN enabled NGI technology. This will be integrated with an intelligent imaging archives implementing a regional standard for collaboratively sharing live and archived imaging for collaborative research and educational purposes. The result will be a virtual hybrid system capable of supporting distributed collaboration and virtual microscopy conferences involving participants from medical research institutions throughout the region. The ultimate goal is to provide the HUBS region with a sustainable Collaborative Telemicroscopy System that will be available to hospitals, medical schools and universities in the region. The hybrid system that will be developed should significantly enhance access and sharing of high-resolution pathology teaching images for Collaborative Telemicroscopy sessions. The major use of the production system will be to query the database with an unknown image and do image feature matching. It will allow an image in the system to be shared and simultaneously accessed at multiple locations. A Physical Intelligent Archive will be housed at PSC containing high quality images for use across the region. We will use the very large-scale image repository to rigorously test the NG-VPN both from distributed databases at four medical schools and hospitals across the region versus a centralized archive at PSC. This will very much facilitate reality testing of NG-VPN in the healthcare environment.
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