Nonetheless, few reports have described the experiences of introducing virtual microscopy in dental education.
An example of such an innovation is the so-called virtual microscopy.
We conducted this study to evaluate student perceptions of virtual microscopy use.
Many schools have started to adopt virtual microscopy as a new method aimed at enhancing student learning.
Integrating virtual microscopy and image processing principally allows the high-throughput evaluation of complete tissue slides.
Virtual microscopy (VM) represents an important technological advancement in histology as it allows for the first time the automated high throughput microscopy of complete microscopic slides.
Reproducibility was not improved by virtual microscopy.
(B) Agreement of staining intensity ratings between virtual microscopy and assisted virtual microscopy.
Between microscope and virtual microscopy we found 20 discordant estimations, 18 between plain and assisted virtual microscopy and 18 between microscopy and assisted virtual microscopy.
Scoring was done repeatedly using the microscope, plain virtual microscopy, and virtual microscopy with a manual outline drawing function.
Numbers below images denote the staining intensities from rating by microscope, by virtual microscopy, and by assisted virtual microscopy, respectively.
