This is your source for insights on digital pathology with its challenges and what to do to overcome them. You will find opinions and thoughts from Grundium subject matter experts, testimonials from our partners and customers, real world case studies of Grundium products, and newsworthy Grundium events. Sit back, grab a beverage and immerse yourself in all this good reading!
- blogDecember 3rd, 2021
WHAT IS DIGITAL PATHOLOGY?
Digital pathology is the practice of pathology by viewing the tissue or fluid samples as high-resolution digital photographs or video on a computer screen instead of through the eyepiece of a conventional microscope. The most notable benefit of digitizing the samples is the possibility to view and share them online.
Full story - blogOctober 25th, 2021
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE VS. HUMAN EXPERTISE IN PATHOLOGY
Artificial intelligence stands on the shoulders of digital pathology, which can already feel threatening to the expert, who has maybe spent decades looking at specimens in a microscope. Will all this rapidly developing technology make the human professional obsolete?
Full story - blogOctober 11th, 2021
ZOETIS & GRUNDIUM: AN EXAMPLE OF TELEPATHOLOGY & AI IN REMOTE IMAGING AT SATELLITE CLINICS
The small footprint but high resolution Grundium Ocus®40 is the chosen imaging component in Zoetis’ network of digital pathology service. The system reduces the time of cats’ and dogs’ diagnosis from days or even weeks to only minutes. This is tomorrow’s distributed digital pathology service today.
Full story - blogSeptember 29th, 2021
A DIGITAL ASSET IN PATHOLOGY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
MD Hannes Olauson is a resident physician in pathology at the Karolinska University Hospital, and a researcher at the Karolinska Institutet (KI), the single largest center of medical academic research in Sweden, in Stockholm Sweden. He’s one of the doctors adopting whole slide imaging (WSI) and digital pathology in his work as an MD and in teaching undergraduates. Hannes talks about how the small Grundium Ocus is making a big difference in scanning slides, and he has an interesting view of the future of pathology and why medical innovation sometimes takes longer.
Full story - blogAugust 16th, 2021
THE GRUNDIUM OCUS®20 VS. THE OCUS®40
Two beautiful and powerful scanners making the best professional diagnosis available for all life. What’s the difference? Here is what makes each of the Grundium Ocus® series scanners the most practical in their respective fields.
Full story - blogMay 19th, 2021
DIGITAL DIAGNOSTICS AT POINT OF CARE
In this interview Techcyte CEO Ben Cahoon talks about digital pathology and what the future looks like for digital diagnostics. Techcyte uses the Grundium Ocus® series scanners in their point of care AI solutions for clinical pathology in veterinary and human healthcare.
Full story - blogMay 17th, 2021
ORGAN PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATIONS SCAN AND SHARE BIOPSIED SAMPLES IN REAL TIME
Specialist Direct provides end-to-end telehealth solutions in telecardiology, telepathology and teleradiology. Since 2019 the Grundium Ocus® microscope scanner has been the go-to telepathology imaging solution for their services for organ procurement organizations (OPOs). OPOs facilitate the entire organ donation process from the organ donor all the way to transplant. A single OPO can service an area with dozens to hundreds of hospitals.
Full story - blogApril 27th, 2021
RESOLUTION AND SCANNING SPEED IN HIGH-POWER DIGITAL MICROSCOPY
An accustomed microscope user immediately understands the level of detail being discussed under the keywords “10x”, “40x” or “100x”. Despite its usefulness and simplicity in discussion, magnification does not indicate the resolving ability of a microscope, which depends entirely on the numerical aperture.
Full story - blogApril 2nd, 2021
GRUNDIUM'S FIRST TECHNOLOGY PATENT IN CHINA
Grundium has been issued a technology patent in China with the title “A Method, An Apparatus And A Computer Program Product For Focusing”. The patent is another part of Grundium’s portfolio of innovations in making the sharpest images in the digital slide scanning business.
Full story - blogFebruary 10th, 2021
MAGNIFICATION: DOES IT MATTER WHAT IT SAYS ON THE TIN?
Viewed through a 40x lens, objects seem twice as big as with a 20x lens. It seems logical to think a higher magnification objective is “better”. But does it matter what it says on the tin?
Full story - blogDecember 3rd, 2020
HOW TO MAKE INTRA-OPERATIVE FROZEN SECTION PATHOLOGY MORE PRACTICAL
When there’s a patient on the table in cancer surgery, the options used to be either to have a pathologist ready at the microscope to diagnose the frozen tissue specimen, or close the section and send the patient home to wait for the histopathological diagnosis by way of regular pathology laboratory workflow. Apart from being costly, the long wait is arduous for both the patient, the hospital and the whole health care system.
Full story - blogOctober 22nd, 2020
CANCER EXPERTISE IN FINLAND
In this brochure Business Finland has collected the most important cancer research innovators from Finland.
Full story - blogAugust 17th, 2020
API INTEGRATION TOOLS
The Grundium Ocus series slide scanners make digital pathology very easy. An Ocus scanner is fully remote usable and cloud connected to make the best professional diagnosis available for all life, anywhere in the world.
Full story - blogJuly 20th, 2020
TELEPATHOLOGY WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED
Moving from conventional light microscopes into digital pathology can seem daunting. Many digital systems are cumbersome and come with proprietary software, which require changing the hospital workflow. Big change is usually unwelcome, especially when resources and people are already scarce. The Grundium Ocus® makes the best professional diagnosis available for all life. Here’s why it is so easy to use.
Full story - blogJuly 13th, 2020
(ECO-)SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS IN DIGITAL PATHOLOGY WORKFLOWS
The digital transformation of pathology is necessary, but even if the core technologies are already available, applying them in practice in hospital workflows takes time and effort. To speed things up, the benefits of novel methods over the existing must be clearly demonstrated (read this and this for more information).
Full story - blogJune 16th, 2020
THE GRUNDIUM IMAGING SYSTEM IS NOW PATENTED
Grundium has been issued a US patent of the title “Microscope comprising a movable objective-camera system with rolling shutter camera sensor and a multi-color strobe flash and method for scanning microscope slides with proper focus”.
Full story - blogJune 2nd, 2020
PERSONAL SLIDE SCANNER VS. CONVENTIONAL MULTI-SLIDE SCANNER
In digital pathology, a small portable scanner can handle some workflows better than conventional big scanners. As the awareness of an alternative to multi-slide scanners grows, comparing similarities and differences is a convenient way of wrapping one’s head around a new idea. Scanning speed often comes up as a metric to contest the platforms. But does it really matter?
Full story - newsMay 10th, 2020
GRUNDIUM LAUNCHES A SECOND MICROSCOPE SCANNER
On June 12th 2020 Grundium launches the Ocus®40 scanner, a sister model to the Ocus®, which has been on the market since 2018. The new scanner comes with a near-identical form factor and weight, but it does a few things differently from the previous model.
Full story - blogMay 4th, 2020
THE GRUNDIUM IMAGE STITCHING METHOD IS PATENTED
Composing a single accurate image of a number of microscopic scanning points (i.e. stitching) becomes especially demanding when parts of the specimen are empty or have repetitive patterns in them. Grundium knows how to mitigate this problem and it has been granted a patent.
Full story - blogApril 15th, 2020
TELEPATHOLOGY MADE SIMPLE
When you just can’t be in more locations at once and you can’t increase the hours in a day, what do you do?
Full story - blogMarch 9th, 2020
WHAT IS DRIVING DIGITAL PATHOLOGY?
Pathology is in transition. There simply aren’t enough pathologists to go around. With an aging population the number of pathology cases and the number of samples to process keeps growing. Since new graduate pathologists can’t be trained and educated fast enough to satisfy demand, the only option* is to make the existing and incoming pathologists process more samples. Since just working more hours is not feasible for medical professionals in charge of diagnosing to save lives, we must find a way to make the pathologists work more efficiently.
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