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The biopsies featured on this grading web-site have been scored by 3 expert
uropathologists
. The biopsies were also scored from the original glass-slides
by an expert uropathologist, and the intraobserver agreement was analysed.

A description of the web-site as well as the results from the observer variability
analyses have been published in the journal article:

     Helin H, Lundin M, Lundin J, Martikainen P, Tammela T, Helin H, Van der Kwast T and Isola J.
     Web-based virtual microscopy in teaching and standardizing Gleason grading. Human
     Pathology 2005; 36: 381-386.


The article is available as:

   The Medline abstract at PubMed
   Full-text document   (Digital Object Identifier Link)
  
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Supplemental information to the article published in the Human
Pathology


   Image acquisition 
   Image processing
   The image server, image indexing and network protocol
   The web-site and the viewing interface
   Connection speeds and speed testing
  
  Specimens 
  
  Expert uropathologists 
 
For more information please contact the authors:

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