Your Questions, Answered
General and Regulatory
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PIMSDX is a digital pathology Image Management System (IMS) designed to manage, distribute, view, annotate, and analyze whole slide images (WSIs) in diagnostic workflows. It integrates LIS/EMR data, supports collaboration, and provides a unified cockpit for pathologists.
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Yes. PIMS DX uses PMA.core technology, which is CE-IVD compliant under EU Directive 98/79/EC and validated for primary histopathological diagnosis (H&E, IHC, ISH) including measuring distances and areas.
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Pathologists, lab technicians, scanner operators, lab managers, and system administrators depending on assigned roles and permissions.
Access & user Roles
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Open your site-specific PIMS login URL, enter your username and password, and click Log in. A wrong password or access issue should be reported to your administrator.
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Yes. PIMS automatically adjusts the interface based on the user role, for example, scanner operators only see QC modules, while pathologists see diagnostic modules.
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Roles include Lab Manager, Technician, Pathologist, Scanner Operator, System Administrator, and Trainee, each with specific access levels to Production, QC, Backlog, and Backoffice modules.
Case List & Workflow
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The Case List is the central dashboard showing all cases, enriched with data from LIS, scanners, stainers, and other lab instruments like coverslippers (when integrated).
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Yes. You can choose visible columns, reorder them, resize, and apply personalized filters or predefined queries.
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Use column-based search, predefined filters, or custom OData-based queries to locate cases of interest.
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Yes, PIMS is optimized for dual-monitor setups; one for the Case List and one for the Viewer.
Slide Viewing & Navigation
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PIMSDX has 2 viewing modalities.
Standard Viewing: One or several slides displayed individually
Eagle Eye View: All slides of a case shown side-by-side in a single image collage
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For rapid assessment of tissue details across all slides in a case, sampling completeness, cross-slide navigation, and annotations across multiple WSIs.
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Mouse (scroll, click-drag)
Keyboard shortcuts including magnification (1x–40x), next slide etc
Touch gestures
Annotations & Measurement Tools
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Circle, square, polygon, freehand, closed freehand, compound polygon, lines, arrows, overlays, with color selection.
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Yes. Lines measure distances; polygons and freehand shapes allow surface area estimation.
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Yes. You can delete single annotations or clear all annotations on a slide.
Quality Control (QC)
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Yes. PIMS provides a full QC module allowing slide review, approval, rejection, and audit trail based quality assessment.
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Rescan requests can be sent directly to the scanner operator, automatically including metadata such as slide ID, scanner ID, and rejection reason.
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Yes, rejection reasons are configurable in the backoffice.
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Yes. QC status is stored in metadata and available in all downstream viewer interfaces.
Integration & Interoperability
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Yes. AI execution rules allow automatic or rules-based triggering of AI services for specific slides or case types.
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Specimen type, stain type, patient age, participants, or any case metadata.
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Yes, if the rule is configured for global execution.
Hardware & IT Requirements
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No. No installation is required. PIMS runs in any modern browser (Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox).
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2 monitors (27–32 inches, 4MP–8MP resolution)
Stable internet connection
Supported input devices (mouse, touchscreen/stylus, ergonomic devices)
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Server requirements depend on whether the deployment is on-premise or cloud (AWS/Azure). PIMS uses PMA.core and SQL Server as backend components.
Slide Storage & Archiving
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PIMSDX uses PMA.core as the back-end tile server for accessing storage systems (local, network, cloud).
Backoffice/Administration
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Users and roles
Workflow statuses
Actions
Custom filters
AI execution rules
QC rejection reasons
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Yes. Every insert, update, delete, and user action is logged with timestamp, user ID, and old vs new values.
Collaboration Tools
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Yes. PIMS supports remote collaboration using screen control tools (Teams, Zoom, Google Meet) and synchronized slide viewing.
Support
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You can submit tickets via the 24/7 helpdesk. Business-hour support applies for customer service and SLAs.
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