Standards and Guidelines

A busy few weeks of news continues with announcement that the College of American Pathologists has released their much anticipated validation plan guidelines for use of whole slide imaging for diagnostic purposes in pathology and has kindly...

Linköping University and the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV) cordially invite you to the first Nordic Symposium on Digital Pathology, October 30-31, 2013 in Linköping, Sweden.  The symposium aims to be a venue...

A novel receptor-targeted radioactive tracer for intraoperative lymphatic mapping (ILM) — technetium Tc 99m tilmanocept (Lymphoseek, Navidea Biopharmaceuticals) — has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It is...

Recently became aware of a pathology group in a large community hospital who submitted a retrospective study to look at whole slide imaging versus conventional light microscopy for purposes of primary H&E diagnosis. The goals of the...

There is a plan to hold a "Summit on Color in Medical Imaging"on 2013-05-08 and 09 at FDA’s White Oak Campus in Silver Springs (Washington DC area, suburban Maryland.) Participants in the organizing committee are FDA - Aldo Badano, ICC -...

Has effective cancer screening with earlier detection of lower stage disease become too effective with patients disregarding revised screening guidelines.  While in screening one casts a wide net to catch as much as possible, there may be...