solution for e-learning platform

Learning, whenever and wherever time allows it

this shall be made possible for medicine students acquiring diagnostic knowledge in the university context of pathology, anatomy and histopathology. At the same time, they are to be enabled to gain access to high-quality digital slide material.

In cooperation with Net-Base Computer und Netzwerktechnik e.K. and with support of Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH, the online platform mirax@net-base was developed in order to perfectly display contents of teaching and research.

Application

Glandula parotis
digital slide = 8Gbyte

The primary aim is to modernize the conventional system of learning being tied to time and place and substitute it by a modern, contemporary model of teaching.

The cooperating partners in mirax@net-base worked together on this complex issue and offer a virtual teaching platform, which solves all of these tasks effective.

The application centers around the visualization and editing of digital slides are the basis for teaching.

To convey course content effectively, the curriculum, in addition to a broad range of high-resolution digital slides and other multimedia information made available.These components build upon each other to enable an exploratory study.

Digital slides are created and acquired through slide-scanning systems, such as the Zeiss MIRAX SCAN.

Since it is about high-definition digital images of the whole histological preparation, the size of the image data is enormous and can reach up several Gigabytes.
The high-performance visualization, processing and presentation of image data is the core of the application

mirax@net-base: solution and concept

Glandula parotis (8Gbyte digital Slide)
visualized, zoomed, annotated, measured
with arivis WebView

The conventional learning system in the university field of pathology is dependant on time and place. mirax@net-base is a modern solution that replaces this old system with the help of an e-learning application.
Since pathology counts as one of the most difficult and largest academic subjects during medical studies, the online-teaching system is supposed to make a self-directed learning possible in a completely new way.
mirax@net-base is based on the use of digital slides which can be visualized, worked with and presented in high-performance by the arivis webview during lecture courses and self study.

mirax@net-base allows its users a quick navigation and continuously variable zoom through the entire preparation without any loss of quality even at highest image solution.

The idea of mirax@net-base consists in a web-based, platform independent server application as the basis. Together with the multimedia teaching contents of the institutes and faculties, the digital image slides are integrated into a modular framework. A specified user administration allows the teaching staff to manage the teaching contents, while the work on the slides is an integral part of the course didactics.

arivis webview: solution for visualization, processing and presentation

Within the mirax@netbase system, the arivis Webview allows the visualization, annotation and multimedia presentation of digital slides with super high image resolution.
The arivis ImageCore serves as the basic technology of arivis, making it possible to provide even largest image data online for all tasks in the chosen field of study.

Without any loss of quality or time, the user is able to navigate freely within the entire digital slide or to zoom directly into the selected image section.
The size of the slides is no longer a restriction and even when dealing with narrowband connections, the arivis WebView ensures a solid performance.
The arivis WebView can be started out of any web browser.
In the mirax@net-base system the digital slides are converted from their original format into the arivis format without difficulties. This converting can be processed manually or automatically.

arivis WebView: advantage and benefit

The arivis WebView offers not only a solution, but also defining advantages:

• indefinite size of the image data of the slide
• visualization of the image data at highest temporal performance
• navigating and continuously variable zoom through the slide
• no quality-loss by visualization
• didactic integration of annotations into the teaching contents
• annotations by teaching staff or students
• teaching platform via internet/ intranet
• no further plug-ins necessary

As all arivis products the arivis WebView, too, is based upon the arivis Image Core technology which allows every user not only the visualization of image data independent from size and dimension, but also its presentation by different media.

Navigation, continuously variable zoom, combined with an intuitional menu navigation on a user-optimized surface – all these are the qualities of the arivis WebView, a viewer which allows uncomplicated work with any image data of almost indefinite size.

The arivis WebView offers in addition to the visualization features extensive functions for working with annotations. Users can create, edit, categorize and delete annotations by themselves. This is achieved by a powerful but easy-to-use rights system monitored and controlled

In order to offer our clients individual solutions, they can choose between two configuration levels.
To learn more about configuration levels, click on the following link:
Ausbaustufen und Lehrinhalte mirax@net-base

partcipating teaching platforms

Pathologisches Institut Universität Würzburg	TU München Institut für Allgemeine Pathologie und Pathologische Anatomie	LMU München Pathologisches Institut der LMU München	Universitätsklinikum Freiburg Institut für Pathologie
Institut für Molekulare und Zelluläre Anatomie Uni Ulm	Institut für Pathologie und Zytologie Wiesbaden	Universitätsklinikum Tübingen Institut für Hirnforschung