SlideCenter

SlideCenter (former CaseCenter) is a powerful, server-based slide management system with a fully featured slide database capable of storing both macroscopic images and digital slides. Thanks to its flexible structure, it can be adapted to several fields, including various research applications and medical education.

SlideCenter is a flexible, distributed server system: more servers can easily be added for enhanced data security and storage requirements.

Licensing is performed on the server side: SlideCenter regulates the number of users who can access the server at any time. Five user types can be defined: Administrator user, Moderator user, Normal user, Restricted user and Public Share user.

Structure

• HUB: PostgreSQL database – object-relational database management system
• Service Unit (SU): slide storage

Key Features

Automatic slide alignment

Automatic and rapid alignment of series of sections even with different stainings. It is not necessary to rotate digital slides manually.

Virtual Slide and VirtualTray

All slides of a case are represented in one view by one single click for faster case reading and slide comparison. Combine multiple digital slides or regions of interest into one VirtualTray without the need for more storage!

TMA workflow support

from target marking up to the core visualization. Use SlideCenter’s remote slide access for sample designation or TMA slide evaluation: fast, convenient, and easy.

Transparent login method for high-traffic user authentication

Login queue and automatic logout: It is possible for the administrator to log users out after a specified time of inactivity. A login queue handles the shortage of free licenses. Users get in the queue according to their user levels (users with higher rank are put forward in the queue) and their queue number (position in the queue) is displayed and is automatically updated.

Server-side barcode parsing

Automatically create folders and cases from the barcode on the slide on server side. Advantages:

• No need to define a path to every slide. Slides are put in their place automatically by barcode
• It also works with manually written indentifiers
• Recognizes and uses cases/folders created by HIS

InstantViewer

• SlideCenter’s built-in, multiplatform slide viewing application
• Supported platforms: Windows, Win Mobile, Mac OSX, iOS, LINUX, Blackberry

Secondary Service Unit

Using a secondary Service Unit when the default Service Unit is full or unavailable or getting errors

• Quick search in folder tree
• The uploader of each slide is shown in slide details
• “Delete folder” and “Delete slide” functions are set to user level (available only for a pre-defined user level and above)
• Send daily e-mail about the status of the Service Unit: Send a message to the admin every day about the condition of the Service Units
• If a Service Unit becomes unavailable and it is not available for a certain time, a message is sent to the admin. This e-mail contains the name and current status of the Service Unit

More Features

• Web-based slide and case database with fast search
• Easy extension by adding new SUs
• Slide access through the free SlideViewer, the InstantViewer or the iPad Viewer
• Virtual Slide handling
• MS Network, HTTP and HTTPS accessibility
• Fully manageable user and user group rights system
• Direct scanning into database with PANNORAMIC digital slide scanners
• Macro images and multiple file attachments stored in the case
• SlideCenter can work with other 3DHISTECH software applications (e.g. quantification software can be run on remote slides)

New Features (SlideCenter 3.2)

• New settings for IHE PALM HL7 intergation to set the horizontal and vertical image size of the label area, thumbnail and preview images
• Increasement of the length limit of slide name to 250 characters
• Enhancement of HIS log handling: Provide more details about both incoming and outgoing messages
• Enhancement of sending of HIS messages: Periodically resend messages what came back with communication error
• New HIS reply store screen: New screen to follow up the compiled but not confirmed outgoing messages
• New outgoing message type in IHE PALM HL7 integration: DeleteSlide
• Profile assignment editor: the functionality of the already existing external tool is available in the SlideCenter^TM
• New store strategy for SU storages: a new now default store strategy was developed to ensure that the storages are filled evenly and don’t store every slide onto one storage until the storage is full

System Requirements

Minimum System Requirements

• Processor: Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1220
• 4 Core CPU
• 16 GB RAM
• 320 GB + slide storage: depends on requirements
• Slides: 0.5-1 GB / slide
• MS Windows Server 2012 R2

Recommended Network Bandwidth

Storage capacity planning (Service Unit  / Storage)