High-level interface for storage, slides and annotations
The new software is designed to access slide images, properties, annotations, and server folders. Thanks to the standard and high-level interface, its functionalities can be easily used from any programming language or scripting tool.
Key features:
- Connection handling for SlideCenter
- Folder content querying from SlideCenter: subfolders and slides
- Slide opening of local slides and from SlideCenter
- Slide property reading: dimensions, resolutions, channels, etc.
- Slide tile reading by x1, y1, x2, y2, channel, magnification, focus indices, 8 or 16 bit
- Slide image reading: label, thumbnail, scanmap
- Annotation reading, deleting and insertion through GeoJSON format
- Well-documented API with Python examples and Jupyter Notebooks
Technical details:
- High-level and REST-like interface
- Server + Slide + Annotation access
- Public and well-documented API
- Examples and usecase demos
- Local and server-slide support
- Client-code for different languages e.g. Python
- Minimal performance overhead
- Standalone and hosted operation
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