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Method and apparatus for internet, intranet, and local viewing of virtual microscope slides

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  • US 6,396,941 B1
  • Filed: 06/12/2000
  • Issued: 05/28/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/23/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for viewing virtual microscope slides comprised of sets of digitized tiled images over a common communication channel, the method comprising:

  • providing a transmitting station connected to the common communication channel and accessible by a number of remote receiving stations connected to the common communication channel;

    storing a plurality of sets of virtual microscope, digitized slide images at the transmitting station;

    transmitting control information to the requesting computer for use in aligning the transmitted sets of digitized tiled images to form a composite, coherent, seamless digitized, virtual microscope, slide image from a set of digitized tiled images;

    displaying on a viewer at a remote receiving station a thumbnail view of a specimen or portion thereof on the virtual microscope slide;

    displaying on the viewer at the remote receiving station an aligned set of digitized tiled images at a higher resolution than the resolution of the thumbnail view; and

    zooming by the viewer back and forth between the thumbnail view and the higher resolution set of digitized tiled images.

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