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Alternatives to OpenSlide #54
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Keeping this open for future considerations. |
@sarthakpati I'm currently working on OPM2 to make it more stable and simplify code. We might want to look into using PathML as a backend. |
Awesome-sauce!
Let's discuss about this, since we want to move away from open-slide, not add yet another (potentially complicated) dependency for patch extraction. 😛 |
After #261 is merged, the OpenSlide requirements will be reduced to the following few (admittedly minor) items: https://github.com/CBICA/GaNDLF/search?l=Python&q=openslide Could one of you take a crack at this? |
I think we have a winner with tiffslide, which is pretty much a drop-in replacement for OpenSlide using tifffile as the backend. |
Hi @sarthakpati I'd be super interested in your experience moving this project from openslide to tiffslide. Were there any issues you ran into or did everything work ootb? Cheers, |
Thanks, @ap--. We will definitely let you know about our experience. Since I don't specialize in dealing with WSI on GaNDLF, I am waiting on feedback regarding my PR. 😄 |
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
OpenSlide is (and probably will always remain) a pain to install and use because it needs the library files present and correctly loaded in the environment prior to any
import
.Describe the solution you'd like
Look for alternatives to this for WSI I/O.
Describe alternatives you've considered
N.A.
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Post alternatives (and reasons why it is better than OpenSlide) as comments.
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