New Digital Pathology Tools

A new suite of web-based applications is designed to improve the efficiency of clinical pathology operations, from case management, to review, diagnosis, and report generation by the pathologist.

Designed by pathologists for pathologists, the Xcellerator suite is intended to replace paper reports and glass slides with digital image and case-management software. This can reduce the costs associated with traditional pathology operations and provide efficient processes that enable laboratory technicians and management to assign, sign-out, and share cases among pathologists, and also to generate imaging-enhanced reports and interface with laboratory information systems (LIS). The Xcellerator suite is the product of Trestle Holdings, Inc. (Irvine, CA, USA; www.trestle.com).

The suite includes the Histotech Workbench and Xcellerator Cytotech Workbench, which offer core imaging and archiving tools for quality control and image processing. They allow the user to more efficiently manage the whole-slide digital imaging process. The Anatomical Pathologist Desktop and Xcellerator Cytopathologist Desktop are web applications that enable the user to access an electronic desktop to remotely view, notate, assign, transmit, collaborate, and manage digital slide image and patient case data. A virtual pathology classroom, designed for formal teaching, enables users to create, notate, assign, score, and audit various virtual pathology casebook study assignments and tests.

"The Trestle family of customized workflow applications for anatomic pathology and cytology provides state-of-the-art, diagnostic-quality images that are easily shared among pathologists and consultants for review with colleagues, and enables efficient review for quality assurance and clinicopathologic correlations that are so critical to the safe and efficient delivery of care,” noted Dr. Michael Becich, professor of pathology at the University of Pittsburgh (PA, USA) and a member of Trestle's board of directors.




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