Mobile cell-phones (M-phones) in
telemicroscopy: increasing connectivity of isolated laboratories.
Such mobile technologies are beginning to be used to improve public health and patient care (1, 2); examples include text messaging for improving adherence to malaria (3) and HIV treatment (4, 5), transmission of images for
telemicroscopy (6), and personal digital assistants for collecting laboratory results (7).
In the mid-1990s, Web-based
telemicroscopy was made available to NCMIR's user community in the United States and abroad, which was then able to effectively use the remote interface to acquire data.
Respective arrangements are facilitated by using inactivated samples and implementing new technologies, such as automated pattern recognition (49) and
telemicroscopy by using digital image acquisition and remote operation of the instrument or review of micrographs through the Internet (50).
Use digital imaging systems such as whole slide imaging (WSI),
telemicroscopy, and image analysis (as appropriate to practice setting).