PathVisions 2026: Scaling Digital Pathology

Improving digital scaled solutions in pathology with free and open-sourced resources

October 19, 2026
2 min

The Pathologist

Objective:

Preview Mohannad Hussain’s Pathology Visions 2026 presentation on free and open-source digital pathology resources and how they are refined for clinical use.

Approach:

Resources: The presentation will introduce open-source concepts and cover the DICOM microscopy viewer, Slim Viewer, OHIF Viewer, and NIH Imaging Data Commons.
Refinement: It will discuss ongoing improvements through resource use and connectathons, including the recent DICOM Working Group 26 connectathon.
Topics: Planned topics include AI annotation and output visualization, multiplex imaging, diagnostic image fidelity, performance, reliability, robustness, and use of large language models.

Key Findings:

The article previews a conference presentation; it does not report study results.
The resources discussed range from image viewers to a repository of multimodality pathology and radiology images.