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Double-scoping is the cornerstone of pathology education. But how are pathologists being trained during an era of social distancing?

A recent paper by pathologists Robert Christian and Mandy VanSandt at the Oregon Health & Science University discuss the cost barriers of traditional digital pathology scanning systems, and the opportunity for low-cost dynamic virtual microscopy.
Link to paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23742895211006819?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed

As noted in the paper's conclusion, the existing virtual microscopy technology may not be fully optimized for remote image sharing (telepathology), resulting in lag time with image movement, problems focusing, image quality issues, and a narrower field-of-view.

Augmentiqs solves all of these challenges, delivering a low-cost virtual telepathology solution that maintains the full field of view of the microscope, no lag time of image movement, and digital-pathology grade image quality.

The result is high-quality pathology education, remote consultations, tumor boards and frozen sections - all from the existing microscope.

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Artificial intelligence has great potential for pathology. But wouldn't it be great if algorithms could be built in a more effective manner?

Augmentiqs proposes a paradigm shift in the development of AI.

As opposed to the current method of hiring a couple of pathologists to annotate whole slide scans in a non-work environment - a method that is expensive, inefficient and far from big-data.

Augmentiqs sits within the microscope, piggybacking of the existing workflow of many pathologists to automatically collect images and metadata for algorithm training which encapsulate a wide variety of lighting conditions, stains and methodologies.

Once created, Augmentiqs with augmented reality technology is the ideal platform for AI deployment for pathologists across the globe who still use a microscope-based workflow.

Learn more about the future of pathology at www.augmentiqs.com