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A recent study conducted at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City has highlighted the potential benefits of digital pathology workflows in improving pathology operations. These workflows allow for the retrieval and review of digital images, remote work and telepathology, and the use of computer-aided tools. The study emphasizes the importance of implementing quality management systems to ensure patient safety and successful adoption of digital pathology. The researchers developed a structured digital pathology laboratory quality management system tailored to the specific needs of their institution. The study concludes with recommendations for implementing quality management systems in large-scale digital pathology operations in clinical settings. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers a look at the digital image gallery debuted by the New York Public Library (NYPL). On March 3, the NYPL launched an online gallery of 275,000 images from its vast collection, accessible via its web site at no charge. Treasures in the NYPL Digital Gallery (http://digitalgallery.nypl.org) include Civil War photos, New York City historical items, 16th-century maps of North America, sheet music covers, floor plans of prewar apartments, Yiddish theater placards, Japanese prints, menus, Russian civil war posters, theater photos, and more. NYPL president Paul Le Clerc told LJ that the nexus of the project dates back to 1999. Users can tackle the massive trove by browsing broad topics, collections, subject words, or names and searching by keyword(s) or identification number. The library's Digital Imaging Unit has produced high-resolution scans or digital photos of 200,000 items. Additional images were digitized by outside contractors. Another team created metadata for each item, making sure that title, creator, date, medium, subject, collection name, and a link to the library's catalog record are attached to each entry. Le Clerc says use of the gallery has been "colossal--four million hits the first day," with roughly 3.5 million hits daily since then. "We've been running 800 million hits a year on the NYPL web site, and I think this year we'll hit one billion," said Le Clerc.

he article offers examples of subjects included in the New York Public Library's digital image gallery. Revolutionary War Scenes--several thousand images from the Thomas Addis Emmet Collection of Illustrations Relating to the American Revolution. Civil War Photos--183 rarely seen photos of battlefield medical treatment. New York City History--tens of thousands of images of buildings and streetscapes. Illuminated Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts--more than 2000 manuscript pages and associated illuminations. 16th-Century Maps of North America--including the earliest published maps of the continent. Sheet Music Covers --from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Civil and Mechanical Engineering--images from the 16th to the 20th century. Manhattan Prewar Apartments --1260 floor plans and elevations. Yiddish Theater Placards--from New York and Buenos Aires, 1900s to 1930s. Animal Illustration--5000 pages from illustrated classics published in the 17th to 20th centuries. Japanese Prints--17th- and 18th-century woodcuts. Fashion Illustrations--from the 19th to early 20th centuries. Menus--several thousand restaurant menus from 1851 to the 1920s. Russian Civil War Posters--213 posters, placards, and broadsides, 1918-22. Theater Photographs--1500 photos, 1900-57.

The article discusses the Google Art Project, which gathers digital images of famous art onto a website. The Project includes paintings, sculptures, and artifacts from museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and can provide high-resolution detail captured in gigapixels. Other topics include the use of Google applications for museums, free access to art, and copyright issues.

The article discusses four photographers in New York City who take pictures of their friends, then post such pictures on the Internet. The photographers, whose pictures are included in the article, are identified by the author as Hanuk, Hobo, Jack Siegel, and Nicky Digital. Commentary on the photographs is provided by each photographer.

The article highlights the service offered by White Plains, New York-based Berlin Productions (BP) Inc. BP provides still and animated computer images for Web sites and DVD. This visual communications company is honored with two Telly Awards, the Academy Awards equivalent of the commercial film and video production industry. Its strategy is to give a diverse portfolio of computer-generated images and design.

The article reports on the distribution of high-resolution digital images by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The images are taken from its collection, free of charge, for use in academic publications. ARTstor has worked in close consultation with The Metropolitan Museum of Art staff to create this new service, titled Images for Academic Publishing, which will make images available via software on the ARTstor web site.

The article offers art related news briefs. A call for organizations having source materials on any active female visual artist in the U.S. are invited to be part of the Rutgers University Libraries' (RUL) web site directory. Documents on New York's historic buildings are available at www.skycraper.org. Munich, Germany's Central Institute for Art History has put online about 60,000 digital color images of the German building's ceiling and wall paintings.

The article discusses the digital agency IOMEDIA located in New York City. It specializes on the strategy, concept and the execution of digital visuals and brand-centric media experiences. It has created practices to illustrate concepts macro, micro, and communicate sophisticated chains of events by focusing on the power of imagery. An overview of IOMEDIA's foundation since 1997 is also discussed.

This article reports on the opening of album company Kolo's new Kolo Album Bar, where customers can drop off their photos and let someone else put their albums together. The first Kolo Album Bar launched in August 2007 in New York at Kate's Paperie, which also just opened in its new location at 72 Spring St. It offers album services from $30, for which 24 digital photos are printed and loaded into a four-inch-by-six-inch photo-sleeve Kolo archival album, up to $350 for more elaborate projects.

This article reports on the Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh in Brooklyn, New York, which has agreed to use NetBank Inc.'s QuickPost service for deposits and payments. Financial Technologies Inc., a unit of the Alphareta, Georgia, branchless banking company, announced the deal with Dime Community Bancshares Inc. The QuickPost service lets people use United Parcel Service Inc. to send checks and cash overnight to a deposit and payment processing center, where the checks can me imaged and the amounts posted on the customer's accounts.

The article reports on the development of a prototype chip that can digitize an image at the level of individual pixels in Rochester, New York. The researchers are now working to incorporate a second technology that will compress the image with far fewer computations than the best current compression techniques. According to Mark Bocko, professor of electrical and computer engineering, these two technologies may work together or separately to greatly reduce the energy cost of capturing a digital image.