DICOM for Whole Slide Imaging
The vendor-neutral standard for storing and exchanging pathology slides.
The reason a slide from one scanner can be opened by another vendor's software. Ask about DICOM support before buying anything.
- Cost
- Free
- Hardware
- Runs on any laptop
- Offline
- Works without a connection
- Scanner
- Not required
- Your data
- Stays on your machine
- Licence
- unknown
- Maturity
- production
- From
- DICOM Standards Committee
What it is
The DICOM VL Whole Slide Microscopy Image IOD defines how scanned slides are represented, enabling storage and exchange independent of scanner vendor.
Licence notes
Open standard published by NEMA; the specification is free to read.
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