Bringing Open Data to Whole Slide Imaging.

ABSTRACT: Faced with the need to support a growing number of whole slide imaging (WSI) file formats, our team has extended a long-standing community file format (OME-TIFF) for use in digital pathology. The format makes use of the core TIFF specification to store multi-resolution (or "pyramidal") representations of a single slide in a flexible, performant manner. Here we describe the structure of this format, its performance characteristics, as well as an open-source library support for reading and writing pyramidal OME-TIFFs.

SUBMITTER: Besson S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6774793 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature