The Spring 2025 DICOM Working Group 26 (WG26) Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) Connectathon brought together key stakeholders shaping the future of digital pathology to validate end-to-end interoperability across acquisition, archiving, AI, and display workflows. More than a proving ground for compliance, the several-month initiative proved to be a compelling demonstration of digital pathology’s evolution and of Concentriq’s readiness to lead the adoption of the DICOM standard in pathology workflows.
DICOM is purpose-built on top of modern technologies to support imaging-intensive clinical environments—but its effectiveness hinges on implementation by vendors within the domain. It’s up to solution providers to ensure DICOM performs in routine clinical operations and workflows specific to digital pathology. That’s exactly what the WG26 Connectathon enabled: multi-vendor, live testing of DICOM image exchange, metadata alignment, and display interoperability across the full imaging pipeline.
Concentriq’s Proven Performance
As revealed at the European Congress on Digital Pathology, Concentriq stood out as a top-performing Image Manager/Archive at the event.
- Successfully received data from eight Acquisition Modalities (scanners) using C-STORE and STOW protocols, as well as providing Storage Commitment (SC). The connecting scanners were 3DHISTECH, Grundium, Hamamatsu, Hologic, Leica, PathQA, Pramana, and Song Yi System.
- Enabled query and retrieval from 10 Image Display (viewer) participants. This demonstrated DICOM compatibility across a broad range of viewers and confirmed Concentriq’s strong support for standards-based visualization.
- Integrated with five Evidence Creators (annotators), including AlxMed, Hologic, identify.bio, Techcyte, and Visiopharm. Concentriq ingested three STOW-based annotations and proved its support for structured, standards-based workflows from both AI tools and manual reviewers.
These results reflect Proscia’s architectural commitment to standards-based design—one that empowers scalable, vendor-neutral implementations.
Navigating Real-World Complexity with Confidence
One of the benefits of the Connectathon was that it mimicked real-world interoperability challenges. Concentriq met these demands by:
- Handling complex workflows that combined legacy images with modern, standards-based implementations, ensuring continuity across evolving infrastructure.
- Ingesting and serving digital pathology data without custom code or integration workarounds, delivering automation-ready performance.
- Supporting seamless interaction across multiple vendors and roles, enabling pathologists and developers to work within a unified, DICOM-compliant environment.
Championing Open Standards in Pathology
By supporting critical interoperability standards—like the DPIA profile, scanner integration, and query/retrieve capabilities—Proscia is helping pave the way for a more open, intelligent digital pathology ecosystem. The Connectathon made it clear that DICOM for WSIs is no longer a niche experiment; it’s maturing into a practical standard, vendors are aggressively adopting the standard, and Proscia is leading its real-world application.
Learn more about how Proscia is operationalizing DICOM for digital pathology here.
