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Histology and Histopathology: virtual microscopy on-line

The project will assemble sets of digital images and microscope slides for the study of histology and histopathology from four project partners. These will be presented through a virtual microscope and placed on an OpenLearn server so that they will be accessible on-line from any web-browser.

	100% complete Project Completed Funding period:November 2011 to January 2013 Source:		Organisations: The institute of Ophthalmology, London De Montfort University The Open University University College Hospital London
	Tags: Content Programme 2011-2013 Digitisation Digitisation & open educational resources (OER) Digitisation and Content

Related Projects

See also	Comments
Open University United Kingdom Virtual Microscope for Earth Sciences	Considerable overlap. Was started by same programmer.

Standards

Standard	Comments
TIFF	original images are in TIFF (high quality). Large files, 1-3GB.

Technologies

Flash	Used for microscope. recognise that Apple iOS compatibility is an issue, and that HTML5 exists, but is less supported that Flash. Does run on Android
Zoomify	tiling converter that takes large TIFFs and splits in JPEG tiles for display. API links this to Flash for each view (like Google maps)

Comments:

Posted by philb at 2012-05-01 13:53:43

A lot of content/tech could transfer to HTML5/JavaScript implementation of microscope. Would poss use HTML5 if starting in a years time.

Posted by philb at 2012-05-01 13:48:12

Licensing etc. included in credits link.

Posted by philb at 2012-05-01 13:45:12

Learning materials will be hosted on OpenLearn

Posted by philb at 2012-05-01 13:44:21

Three introductory units for histology and histopathology being released to accompany microscope, based OU materials. A few 10s of pages.

Posted by philb at 2012-05-01 13:42:04

Each image has description which have links to interesting features in image to illustrate teaching points. Clicking on link moves microscope to display that part of image.

Posted by philb at 2012-05-01 13:36:34

TIFFs are composite of many microscope images.

Posted by philb at 2012-05-01 13:34:57

Metadata subject specific vocabulary for raw images based on Histology & pathology domain microscopy practice . E.g. lens details, magnification etc.

Posted by philb at 2012-05-01 13:33:01

face an issue in distributing (say) 250 1-3GB data (say 1TB) in order to share original high quality images. --Torrent? hard disk by courier?

Posted by philb at 2012-05-01 13:25:08

Building virtual microscope that was build for OU course a couple of years ago. Main shell was already there. This projects moves that microscope online (rather than on DVD) and add camera function to save images of slides.

Posted by philb at 2012-05-01 13:20:26

May put some units on OpenLearn

Posted by philb at 2012-05-01 13:20:12

Web hosting for microscope not yet finalised.