A Closer Look at Online Images
Test an option for viewing figures in context
Here is a prototype of a way to look at detail in online images. The viewer can magnify portions of large images without losing the figure legend.
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BETA GRADUATE
This image viewer was improved based on feedback from Beta visitors, and it appears with the interactive graphic in "Functional Outcome after Language Mapping for Glioma Resection" by N. Sanai, Z. Mirzadeh, and M.S. Berger.
We continue to welcome your feedback. If you have other thoughts related to this feature, please e-mail them to beta@nejm.org.
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02/25/2008
 Interface |
| Pros: Definitely useful for some images |
| Cons: Interface. If the images are going to be 4 MB or larger, I think the zoom should be enabled by default. Otherwise, a small image could be loaded, and the larger image would be downloaded only after the zoom button was clicked |
| Reviewer: Garrett Professional Specialty: Unspecified Place of Work or Study: Unspecified |
08/15/2007
 Interface could be improved |
| Pros: Looks useful for examining pathological and diagnostic imagining figures. |
| Cons: The legend in the lower-right corner would be more useful if it showed what part of the image is being magnified, rather than showing what part of the image is being covered by the magifying box; that is, at 4x zoom the pink box superimposed on the miniature image should be one quarter of the size it is at 1x zoom. Also, using Firefox 2.0.0.6 on Windows XP SP2, the window that pops up is initially half the size of the image and requires resizing; ideally this would adjust to match the size of the image as it does for me in Internet Explorer 7. |
| Reviewer: Greg Deans Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching |
08/01/2007
| Good idea but not impressed |
| Pros: Yes it is definitely a good idea to have high definition path images and/or CT/MRI/cath lab. |
| Cons: The image uses a quarter of the window (I have a 23" screen), the rest is white. It is just a small postcard in a corner. Magnifier is too small. Magnfier above x2 is "pixellized" i.e. above real picture definition. |
| Other thoughts: Data transferred is around 1Mb. With this a standard jpg of 4 mega pixels can be send with a good resolution. Just do it with a x 2 magnifier in Java. I would prefer see a larger picture on my screen, as when I see PACS figures. Think positive, ideas are here. |
| Reviewer: David Professional Specialty: Critical Care Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching |
06/19/2007
| What are you waiting for? |
| Pros: Maximum magnification does produce a distorted image, but lower magnifications are reasonably clear. This would have been a great tool for the path slides in Case 18-2007. |
| Cons: As above,maximum magnification produces distortion, but could be addressed with higher resolution images. |
| Reviewer: S.Kirk, MD Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine Place of Work or Study: Private Physician Office (group) |
05/31/2007
| Hepatic slide |
| Pros: Nice idea |
| Cons: Out of focus at >x2 mag. |
| Reviewer: David Gorelick Professional Specialty: Cardiology Place of Work or Study: Other |
05/23/2007
| liver slide |
| Pros: good very representative of hapatic injury and inflammation |
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| Reviewer: drmanikrishnaswamy Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Community |