@InProceedings{ferreira:microscope, author = {Renato Ferreira and Bongki Moon and Jim Humphries and Alan Sussman and Joel Saltz and Robert Miller and Angelo Demarzo}, title = {The Virtual Microscope}, booktitle = {American Medical Informatics Association, 1997 Annual Fall Symposium}, year = {1997}, month = {October}, pages = {449--453}, address = {Nashville, TN}, URL = {http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~bkmoon/papers/amia97.ps}, keywords = {pario-bib, application}, comment = {Best Application Paper award. \par This paper describes a client/server application that emulates a high power light microscope. They use wavelet compression to reduce the size of each of the electronic slides and they use a parallel data server much like the ones used for sattelite image data (see chang:titan) to service data requests.} }