Learn Pathology

Learn Pathology is a web-based system for teaching students the field of pathology. In the system, teachers can create online courses and assignments. Students can view and interact with large whole slide microscopy images (WSIs) as well as answering questions and performing assignments.

Learn Pathology is developed by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and SINTEF Digital, the Health Department, and is released under the permissive MIT license.

The system is built using the following open source technologies:

• Django
• OpenSeadragon
• FAST
• OpenSlide

Requirements

• Python 3
• For FAST backend you must have OpenCL installed

Development setup

1. Clone project

   git clone https://github.com/AICAN-Research/learn-pathology.git
   cd learn-pathology

2. Create virtual environment

   # Install environment
   pip install virtualenv
   virtualenv -ppython3 environment
   # Activate environment
   source environment/bin/activate # Linux
   environment/Scripts/activate.ps1 # Windows
   # Install dependencies
   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Create database

   python manage.py migrate

4. Create super user

   python manage.py createsuperuser

5. Run server

   python manage.py runserver

   Open your web browser at http://localhost:8000

6. Add some slides

   • Download some slides from http://openslide.org/demo to your machine
   • Login
   • Go to admin page
   • Press slide, and add some slides to the database

Deployment