Objective This last decade, many medical and technological efforts have been made to turn diagnostic pathology into a reliable medical practice taking advantage of multimedia systems for remote diagnostics, image banks, standards for images (DICOM Visible Light), reporting electronic forms, archiving systems and supporting certification and accreditation procedures. Unfortunately, these candidate materials could not be implemented on a large scale because the conventional microscope, as the central standalone imaging system, is still designed as a human viewing apparatus not suitable for the production of standardised digital images as demonstrated by the PRESS study (Bureau Communautaire des References). The e-scope project thus aims at making the fully digital microscope available for routine diagnostic practice with the key advantage of actually incorporating the standards for medical imaging, archiving and communication, in addition to enabling the certification and accreditation procedures set up for by the diagnostic pathology community.OBJECTIVESThis last decade, many medical and technological efforts have been made to turn diagnostic pathology into a reliable medical practice taking advantage of multimedia systems for remote diagnostics, image banks, standards for images (DICOM Visible Light), reporting electronic forms, archiving systems and supporting certification and accreditation procedures. Unfortunately, these initiatives could not be implemented on a large scale because the conventional microscope, as the central standalone imaging system, is still designed as a human viewing apparatus not suitable for the production of standardised digital images as demonstrated by the PRESS study (Bureau Communautaire des References). The objective of this e-scope project is thus to make the fully digital microscope available for routine diagnostic practice with the key advantage of actually incorporating the standards for medical imaging, archiving and communication, in addition to enabling the certification and accreditation procedures set up for by the diagnostic pathology community.DESCRIPTION OF WORKThe project founding statements are:- The emerging technology of fully digital microscopy is now demonstrated and protected (French and European patents now applying to USPTO);- The quality of medical diagnostic on digital images compared to direct microscope viewing has been established as very equivalent by independent European projects (HOME, CANTOR, IMPACT and EUROPATH) and hundreds of published studies;- The requirements for quality assurance and quality control of diagnostic pathology have been formulated and disseminated through the European and International Societies of Pathology and Cytology during this last decade;- The bottleneck of digital imaging integration in pathology is the conventional microscope that suffers from several limitations in this respect: it is basically analogic, it does not allow reproducible image quality, it is not designed to be networked;- As of today, all attempts to adapt the conventional microscope into an imaging terminal have decreased its user friendliness and cost effectiveness.By the association of 3 complementary manufacturers, this project will make available the new generation of digital microscopes to leading pathology laboratories, will integrate the microscope system into the laboratory or hospital computer based environment and, will finally assist the take-up of such technology by a voluntary dissemination and exploitation strategy. Fields of science social sciencesmedia and communicationsgraphic designsocial sciencespolitical sciencespublic administrationbureaucracynatural sciencesphysical sciencesopticsmicroscopymedical and health sciencesbasic medicinepathologyengineering and technologymedical engineeringdiagnostic imaging Programme(s) FP5-IST - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on a "User-friendly information society, 1998-2002" Topic(s) IST-2001-1.1.3 - Best practice and trials in e-Health Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme DEM - Demonstration contracts Coordinator UNIVERSITE JOSEPH FOURIER GRENOBLE 1 EU contribution No data Address 621 AVENUE CENTRALE - DOMAINE UNIVERSITAIRE 38400 SAINT MARTIN D'HERES France See on map Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ISTITUTO NAZIONALE PER LA RICERCA SUL CANCRO Italy EU contribution No data Address LARGO ROSANNA BENZI 10 16132 GENOVA See on map Total cost No data SAMBA TECHNOLOGIES SARL France EU contribution No data Address CHEMIN DU VIEUX CHENE 53 38240 MEYLAN See on map Total cost No data SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS HEALTH SERVICES GMBH Germany EU contribution No data Address HENKESTRASSE 127 91052 ERLANGEN See on map Total cost No data TELEPH (TECHNIQUE ELECTRONIQUE ET PHOTOGRAVURE) France EU contribution No data Address CHEMIN DES CLOS ZIRST 38240 MEYLAN See on map Total cost No data
