What problem does it solve?
This Skill automates the complex and time-consuming process of analyzing whole slide images (WSIs) in digital pathology, enabling efficient tissue detection, tile extraction, and preprocessing for downstream analysis.
Core Features & Use Cases
- WSI Loading & Inspection: Load and inspect various WSI formats, access metadata, and generate thumbnails.
- Tissue Detection & Masking: Automatically identify and segment tissue regions, excluding background and artifacts.
- Flexible Tile Extraction: Extract tiles using random sampling, grid patterns, or score-based selection.
- Image Filtering & Preprocessing: Apply a suite of filters for stain normalization, artifact removal, and quality control.
- Visualization Tools: Preview masks, tile locations, and extracted tiles for validation.
- Use Case: A researcher needs to prepare gigapixel whole slide images for a deep learning model. This Skill can automatically extract thousands of 512x512 pixel tiles from the tissue regions, ensuring consistent preprocessing and data quality.
Quick Start
Use the histolab skill to extract 100 random 512x512 tiles from the slide 'patient_001.svs' and save them to the 'output/tiles' directory.