A web-based telepathology framework for collaborative work of pathologists to support teaching and research in latin america

Abstract

Early diagnosis in cancer is very important for an appropriate treatment and effective recovery in some cases. The biggest problem in developing countries, such as Latin America, is the delay of diagnosis because poor availability of health services in remote regions and lack of pathologists who are concentrated in main cities. In this context, this paper presents a web-based telepathology framework for collaborative work of pathologists. The evaluation was addressed to analyze the computational performance in terms of time response when several and concurrent simulated user’s navigations of whole-slide images are performed. The preliminary results show that the framework is able to support concurrent users with an average response time of 10 s when navigations is performed at the same magnification, which increases until 35 s in average when navigation includes changes of magnification.