For 18 months, the Cellular Pathology Laboratory in Craigavon Area Hospital, Northern Ireland, has been getting use to a Pathology Imaging System. This short talk looks at the journey so far and what may lie in the future for a DGH Cell Path Laboratory using such technology systems.

1. Dr Christine Swarbrick
Pathology Horizons Conference
5-7 November 2015
Pathology Imaging System
A user’s perspective and wish-
list for the future
Dr Christine Swarbrick

2. Craigavon Area Hospital

4. Cellular Pathology Department

5. Cellular Pathology Department

8. Protocol for taking an image of a
specimen
 Specimen needs to be photographed
 Find the department camera
 Wait for several hours to charge the camera
 Find someone who knows how to use the camera
 Set up specimen with precariously balanced rulers on
random lab equipment
 Take photos
 Find a computer that will read the memory card
 Re-take photos as all too blurry
 Pick the photo that isn’t too bad and import into
whatever format required

9. Protocol for taking an image of a
specimen
 Specimen needs photographed
 Take photos
 Save images

10. Cirdan Imaging System

11. Who uses it?
 me
 biomedical scientists
 consultants

12. Reasons for taking photos

13. Reasons for taking photos
 Descriptive

23. Reasons for taking photos
 Descriptive
 Medicolegal

27. Reasons for taking photos
 Descriptive
 Medicolegal
 Unusual case

32. Reasons for taking photos
 Descriptive
 Medicolegal
 Unusual case
 Research

41. Reasons for taking photos
 Descriptive
 Medicolegal
 Unusual case
 Research
 For referral

51. Reasons for taking photos
 Descriptive
 Medicolegal
 Unusual case
 Research
 For referral
 Teaching and Presentations

58. Annotation
Most commonly
 Size
 Laterality / orientation
 Highlighting features
 Block key

62. Benefits
 Images are saved in the system
 Can be accessed easily
 Can search under specific parameters
 Can be imported into emails / presentations

63. Future Thoughts
 Teaching videos

64. Future Thoughts
 Teaching videos
 Teaching students

65. Future Thoughts
 Teaching videos
 Teaching students
 Multi-disciplinary team meetings

66. Future Thoughts
 Teaching videos
 Teaching students
 Multi-disciplinary team meetings
 Individual cameras at each cut-up bench

67. Future Thoughts
 Teaching videos
 Teaching students
 Multi-disciplinary team meetings
 Individual cameras at each cut-up bench
 Integrating digital images of slides taken from
consultants’ microscopes

68. Future Thoughts
 Teaching videos
 Teaching students
 Multi-disciplinary team meetings
 Individual cameras at each cut-up bench
 Integrating digital images of slides taken from
consultants’ microscopes
 Paperless??

71. Thank You!