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    • Digital pathology
    • Computational pathology
    • Histopathology image analysis

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    • Standard microscope slide scanners have limitations in acquiring large tissue samples due to standardized glass slide sizes.
    • This restricts the visualization of whole tissue sections, particularly for large tumors.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a method for creating composite virtual slides from images of large tumor fragments.
    • To overcome the limitations of standardized glass slides in digital pathology.

    Main Methods:

    • Acquisition of HES or immunostained histological sections of breast carcinoma fragments using a digital slide scanner at 20× magnification.
    • A three-step tiling program involving image straightening, strip assembly, and saving in a pyramidal BigTiff format.
    • Quality control using correlation coefficients between native and reconstructed images.

    Main Results:

    • Reconstruction of sixty tumor slices from twenty surgical specimens, with fragments cut into multiple pieces.
    • A median correlation coefficient of 98.71% achieved in quality control, indicating high fidelity of reconstructed images.
    • Successful testing on several tumor slices.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed tiling method is efficient for creating composite virtual slides from large tissue samples.
    • The method is adaptable to routine workflows in classical pathology laboratories.
    • Enhances the capability for detailed analysis of large tissue specimens in digital pathology.