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OpenSlide: A vendor-neutral software foundation for digital pathology
Although widely touted as a replacement for glass slides and microscopes in pathology, digital slides present major challenges in data storage, transmission, processing and interoperability. Since no universal data format is in widespread use for these images today, each vendor defines its own propr...
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Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3815078/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24244884 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2153-3539.119005 |
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author | Goode, Adam Gilbert, Benjamin Harkes, Jan Jukic, Drazen Satyanarayanan, Mahadev |
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description | Although widely touted as a replacement for glass slides and microscopes in pathology, digital slides present major challenges in data storage, transmission, processing and interoperability. Since no universal data format is in widespread use for these images today, each vendor defines its own proprietary data formats, analysis tools, viewers and software libraries. This creates issues not only for pathologists, but also for interoperability. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of OpenSlide, a vendor-neutral C library for reading and manipulating digital slides of diverse vendor formats. The library is extensible and easily interfaced to various programming languages. An application written to the OpenSlide interface can transparently handle multiple vendor formats. OpenSlide is in use today by many academic and industrial organizations world-wide, including many research sites in the United States that are funded by the National Institutes of Health. |
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spelling | pubmed-38150782013-11-16 OpenSlide: A vendor-neutral software foundation for digital pathology Goode, Adam Gilbert, Benjamin Harkes, Jan Jukic, Drazen Satyanarayanan, Mahadev J Pathol Inform Technical Note Although widely touted as a replacement for glass slides and microscopes in pathology, digital slides present major challenges in data storage, transmission, processing and interoperability. Since no universal data format is in widespread use for these images today, each vendor defines its own proprietary data formats, analysis tools, viewers and software libraries. This creates issues not only for pathologists, but also for interoperability. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of OpenSlide, a vendor-neutral C library for reading and manipulating digital slides of diverse vendor formats. The library is extensible and easily interfaced to various programming languages. An application written to the OpenSlide interface can transparently handle multiple vendor formats. OpenSlide is in use today by many academic and industrial organizations world-wide, including many research sites in the United States that are funded by the National Institutes of Health. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3815078/ /pubmed/24244884 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2153-3539.119005 Text en Copyright: © Goode A http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Technical Note Goode, Adam Gilbert, Benjamin Harkes, Jan Jukic, Drazen Satyanarayanan, Mahadev OpenSlide: A vendor-neutral software foundation for digital pathology |
title | OpenSlide: A vendor-neutral software foundation for digital pathology |
title_full | OpenSlide: A vendor-neutral software foundation for digital pathology |
title_fullStr | OpenSlide: A vendor-neutral software foundation for digital pathology |
title_full_unstemmed | OpenSlide: A vendor-neutral software foundation for digital pathology |
title_short | OpenSlide: A vendor-neutral software foundation for digital pathology |
title_sort | openslide: a vendor-neutral software foundation for digital pathology |
topic | Technical Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3815078/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24244884 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2153-3539.119005 |
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