Fragment of human cerebral cortex

Below are some example Python scripts to generate volumes of regions within the released datasets of the fragment of the human cerebral cortex. The published article describing the data can be found here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk4858 The released dataset is listed here: https://h01-release.storage.googleapis.com/data.html The script below prints out the header information of the data. Now, use the […]

ScanXm can now load and play time-series data

ScanXm has received a major update where it can now load and play time-series data, including video. Of course, you can also use all the standard tools in ScanXm to do the annotations and export them either as a 4D volume or as individual frames. ScanXm is compatible with MONAI Label and is able to […]

ScanXm can now read full slide digital pathology images!

ScanXm just received a major update to be able to read full slide digital pathology images. It uses OpenSlide (https://openslide.org/), so will be able to load the images of most microscope vendors, including DICOM.

Download ScanXm at https://scanxm.com/

Please note:

– ScanXm does not support dynamic loading, meaning the entire image must fit in a single contiguous block of memory. Consequently, images can be no larger than 53,509 x 53,509 pixels. You will be able to load in a different resolution if available.

– Painting on the full slide may be a bit slow on large images because of the way ScanXm writes directly into the label map. I therefore recommend cropping to a smaller region of 10,000 x 10,000 pixels or less first.

Many thanks to the developers of OpenSlide, ITK, VTK and wxWidgets for their valuable work!

Data source: https://openslide.cs.cmu.edu/download/openslide-testdata/DICOM/

Annotate digital pathology images using ScanXm

Did you know you can also load and annotate digital pathology images using ScanXm? Even better, with the new integration of MONAI Label, you can now start using the models available in MONAI to fully automatically generate cell segmentations within ScanXm!

Download ScanXm at https://scanxm.com and have a look at the tutorial on leveraging MONAI Label for pathology images at https://scanxm.com/monai/.

Learn more about MONAI Label and its capabilities at https://monai.io/label.html.

Image source: https://zenodo.org/records/1473148

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