Association of Clinical Pathologists
East Mercian Branch in association with Nikon UK

The Digital Laboratory Coming Your Way Bit by Bit

Thursday 24th May 2007.

This event was hosted at the Cedar Court Hotel in Wakefield (Just off the M1 J39) a four-star hotel that was established in 1985 and which offers purpose-built facilities for conferences and banqueting. Cedar Court can provide facilities for conferences/meetings for 2
to 500 delegates.

The conference focused on advances in digital pathology including the
following areas:

  • Digital microscopy for EQA and CPD
  • Virtual slides including:
  • Future applications of the technology.
  • Diagnostic accuracy.
  • Use for EQA & CPD.
  • Future potential (including expert systems for diagnosis).
  • Capturing and adjusting digital images
  • Digital dictation,
  • Voice recognition

In addition to exhibiting throughout the day AES Medical presented PathoSys® and its new add-on imaging functionality.

James Doble provided delegates with an overview of the PathoSys® system and how it
provides digital cancer dataset reporting. The presentation included both a short talk on the
export of data for audit, screening and cancer registries plus a rolling demonstration of the
PathoSys® data entry and reporting system.

Colin Swift provided a running commentary for three video demonstrations that highlighted potential applications in the Pathology lab for the PathoSys® imaging add-on.

AES Medical is thankful for this opportunity to present PathoSys® in such a prestigious setting and we would like to take this opportunity to thank the organisers and speakers for a fascinating and superbly organised conference.