articleJournal of Pathology InformaticsJan 1, 2013GOLD OA

OpenSlide: A vendor-neutral software foundation for digital pathology

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Abstract

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…

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Keywords
  • Vendor
  • Interoperability
  • Computer science
  • World Wide Web
  • Application programming interface
  • Software
  • Interface (matter)
  • Multimedia
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Quality Education
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