VM Slide Explorer –Virtual Microscopy as local Application

VM Slide Explorer 2010 is a Virtual Microscopy software, that allows you to navigate and work with digital whole slide images (WSI) efficiently on the monitor. Snapshots facilitate the generation of digital findings reports and screen presentations. The management of user profiles and the use of personal favorite folders for your slide collections accelerate your work.

VM Slide Explorer furthermore acts as plugin host. Developers can add own plugins using an interface. Already available are plugins for:

• TMA Analysis („VM TMA Evaluator“)

• Point-of-Interest Manager

• Nucleus Segmentation

• Several image analysis functions

 

Functionality

VM Slide Explorer 2010 offers:

• Opening of NDPi, Mirax, JPEG2000, VSF and others

• Creation and management of user profiles

• Management of personal favorite folders

• Measuring length and areas

• Display of overview image and intermediate preview

• Display of case and slide descriptions

• Saving of snapshots with customisation

• Saving and displaying the visualisation path

• Annotations and saved positions

• Navigation with mouse, keyboard, virtual joystick or input devices from 3Dconnexion

 

Implementation scenarios

VM Slide Explorer 2010 is a locally running Virtual Microscope which does not need internet access. Hence it is most applicable for:

• Presentations on conferences using your laptop

• Slide collections for routine and education

• Evaluation of TMA Slides (with the additional module „VM TMA Evaluator“)

• Image analysis (for example nucleus detection, colour segmentation with the appropriate additional modules)

Some Reference Customers

VM Slide Explorer is for example used by the following customers:

 

• University of Applied Sciences Berlin:
  The University of Applied Sciences Berlin uses VM Slide Explorer mainly for its option to develop own plugins. Health Informatics students use Slide Explorer to develop own virtual microscopy plugins that will run within VM Slide Explorer.
  VM Slide Explorer already provides an easy and comfortable plugin interface to realise that.
  
  
• University Hospital Berlin Charité, Centre for Anatomy:
  For its brain course, the Anatomy needed a Virtual Microscope that runs locally on 10 computers in the anatomic dissection hall. It is used to show some selected slides for teaching.
  For that application all the functionality of Slide Explorer to organise and visualise several metadata was very helpful: Texts, annotations in the image, scaling and so on.