Digital Pathology Slide Panel with Status Icons
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Solution Overview
Problem
In digital pathology, pathologists face inefficiencies in workflow due to the need to constantly check digitized slides for annotations, snapshots, alerts, and other data, which slows down their ability to manage and analyze pathology information effectively.
Innovation Solution
A digital pathology platform with a user interface that includes a slide panel displaying a thumbnail of the specimen along with interactive icons indicating the availability of annotations, snapshots, alerts, and other information, allowing users to access these data points without opening the image, and customizable settings to streamline the display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the pathologist opens each digitized slide image to check for annotations, snapshots, alerts, and other data, then complete information about the slide content is obtained, but the workflow time and processing speed are significantly increased
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts key metadata information (annotations, snapshots, alerts, measurements) from the full slide images and presents them in a separate slide panel. This allows pathologists to view essential information without opening each image, reducing time loss while maintaining information completeness through selective extraction of relevant data points.
Solution Approach 2:
The interface is segmented into multiple functional panels: a thumbnail panel displaying slide previews and a separate slide panel displaying metadata information. This segmentation allows simultaneous viewing of both image thumbnails and their associated data without requiring full image opening, thus reducing workflow time while preserving information access.
2Ease of operation
If the digital pathology platform displays only basic slide thumbnails without additional information indicators, then the interface remains simple and easy to understand, but the pathologist cannot quickly assess the status and content of digitized slides
Solution Approach 1:
The slide panel displays different types of information (annotations, snapshots, alerts, measurements) with distinct visual characteristics and icons. Each data type is presented with its own visual identifier, allowing pathologists to quickly assess slide status without complex interfaces. The local quality of each information element is optimized for its specific purpose while maintaining overall interface simplicity.
3Loss of information
If the platform provides comprehensive metadata display for each slide, then complete information is available, but the interface complexity and data processing requirements increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The slide panel dynamically adjusts its content based on user interactions and slide selection. When a pathologist selects a specific slide, the panel dynamically updates to show relevant metadata for that slide. This dynamic behavior allows comprehensive information availability while maintaining interface simplicity by only displaying necessary data contextually, rather than overwhelming the user with all possible information simultaneously.
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AI summary
Techniques may include displaying a user interface for a digital pathology platform and displaying a slide panel on the user interface. A thumbnail of a digitized image of a specimen can be displayed. A settings button can be displayed. An operation can be received on the settings button. A settings window can be displayed in response to receiving the operation on the settings button. One or more setting operations can be received via the settings window. One or more interactive icons associated with the slide panel can be displayed based on the one or more setting operations via the settings window. The one or more interactive icons can indicate status associated with the slide panel.