BMD Software has been featured in the official report on the 2025 DICOM WSI Connectathon. This major international initiative focuses on interoperability in digital pathology and whole slide imaging (WSI). The article details a large-scale effort involving 32 global implementers. These roles include acquisition systems, archives, viewers, and AP-LIS integrations.
The Connectathon validated DICOM and DICOMweb for real-world workflows. These standards enable scalable and vendor-neutral pathology environments. According to the published Connectathon report, the event addressed not only image exchange, but also specimen metadata integration, archive interoperability, viewing workflows, and annotation handling using standard mechanisms.
BMD Software’s Role and Contribution
BMD Software contributed as both an Image Manager/Archive and an Image Display provider with our product PathoBox. PathoBox is a 100% web-based, zero-footprint solution designed to bridge the gap between microscopic analysis and high-performance clinical data management.
As a result, this highlights our active role in building interoperable digital pathology systems. Luís Bastião Silva, CTO of BMD Software, also contributed as a co-author of the published report. Overall, this recognition reflects BMD’s long-term strategy. We focus on open standards, interoperability, and seamless integration with clinical and research systems.
To illustrate this, Figure 1 shows PathoBox viewer handling multiple whole slide images (WSI) in a fully web-based environment. All operations are performed using DICOMweb standards, including image search, metadata association across different slides, and real-time retrieval of pixel data. This demonstrates how PathoBox enables seamless navigation, synchronized viewing, and efficient data access without proprietary dependencies, supporting truly interoperable digital pathology workflows.
Fig. 1 – PathoBox digital pathology viewer demonstrating multi-slide visualization, annotation, and synchronized navigation using DICOMweb for image search, metadata integration, and pixel data retrieval.
Advancing Interoperability in Digital Pathology
Looking ahead, for BMD, this recognition reinforces a strategic direction we have followed for many years: building imaging platforms that support open standards, interoperability, and integration with broader clinical and research ecosystems. As digital pathology adoption continues to grow, initiatives such as the DICOM WSI Connectathon are essential to ensure that pathology systems can communicate reliably across vendors and deployment contexts.
We are proud to see BMD represented in this effort and to contribute to the evolution of practical, standards-based interoperability in digital pathology. The full results are detailed in the 2025 DICOM WSI Connectathon report on ScienceDirect.