Harris Corporation Demonstrates Remote Digital Imagery Display and Manipulation for Pathology Applications
February 25 2008 - 8:15AM
PR Newswire (US)
Technology Originally Developed for Intelligence Applications
Enables Transition to Digital Pathology ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 25
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- HIMSS, Booth #1841 -- Revolutionary
technology to enable pathologists and other medical professionals
to view, collaborate and rapidly manipulate multi-gigabyte digital
images in a virtual environment is being demonstrated publicly for
the first time by Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) at the Healthcare
Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual
conference and exhibition, February 24-28, 2008 in Orlando,
Florida. The Harris imaging technology, originally designed for the
U.S. Intelligence Community and civilian agencies, enables a
pathologist workflow in a digital and collaborative context. By
simply accessing local or wide- area networks, multiple
pathologists can view, pan across and zoom into digital images as
if they were looking through a microscope at the actual slides. As
opposed to radiology, where most diagnostic data today is collected
digitally, pathology still uses glass slides with tissue samples
that are examined under a microscope. If a second opinion is
needed, the tissue samples must be physically shipped to other
locations. The unique capability of the Harris technology to move
very large images -- some tens of gigabytes in size -- transmit
those images, and manipulate them without delay or latency, speeds
the diagnostic process for patients and eliminates the possibility
that the one-of-a-kind pathology samples will be lost or damaged.
During HIMSS, visitors to the Harris booth will be able to
experience a 'pathology cockpit' to view and manipulate remote
digital pathology images, annotate the images with digital notes,
and delineate special areas of interest on the sample, such as a
cluster of tumor cells. This experience and the associated notes
and annotations can be automatically shared for collaboration with
other pathologists and specialists any where in the world. "This
Harris technology is potentially disruptive and will create
enterprise intelligence through digital pathology. We are breaking
through previous limits in computing and image processing to enable
collaborative viewing, archival, and retrieval of large data
volumes in a virtual environment with no latency in the viewing
experience," said Dr. Bart Harmon, MD, pathologist, and chief
medical officer of Harris Healthcare Solutions. "Using this
breakthrough Harris technology in the diagnostic setting gives
pathologists the ability to have the traditional you-are-there,
microscope experience in a digital world." The digitizing of
pathology samples is made possible by the development of new,
highly advanced scanners that allow whole-slide imaging.
BioImagene, Inc., a leading provider of total digital pathology
imaging solutions including the new iScan system for pathologists,
researchers and drug developers, is supplying the pathology slides
used in the Harris demo. Harris also is collaborating with
researchers and pathologists at the University of South Florida in
Tampa, Florida, to further the technology and application of
digital imagery use in the clinical setting. Harris Healthcare
Solutions provides enterprise intelligence solutions and services
for commercial and government customers, including systems
integration, intelligent infrastructure, advanced visualization and
display, and enterprise digital content management solutions.
Harris products, systems, and services improve health outcomes by
assuring that critical medical information is delivered with
security and privacy to the right person, on the right device, at
the point of care. About Harris Corporation Harris is an
international communications and information technology company
serving government and commercial markets in more than 150
countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has
annual revenue of almost $5 billion and 16,000 employees --
including nearly 7,000 engineers and scientists. Harris is
dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications(TM)
products, systems, and services. Additional information about
Harris Corporation is available at http://www.harris.com/.
DATASOURCE: Harris Corporation CONTACT: Sleighton Meyer of Harris
Healthcare Solutions, +1-321-727-6514, ; or Jim Burke of Harris
Corporation, +1-321-727-9131, , or Marc Raimondi of Harris
Corporation - Washington, D.C., +1-703-739-1738, Web site:
http://www.harris.com/
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