Currently, tissue samples are largely stored on glass tissue slides. Through the new partnership, Mount Sinai and Royal Philips seek to take digital scans of the glass tissue slides and place them in a comprehensive repository that will be made available to researchers.
“The digitization of pathology gives us the unprecedented opportunity to access vast amounts of unlocked data and view it within the context of other images, results and clinical information,” said Frans van Houten, CEO of Royal Philips. “It is our vision that our improved understanding of these data will help us enable better, more individualized care with greater confidence.”
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