Utilization of current GPUs is often limited by the ability to get the data onto and off the device quickly. More precisely, this means taking data from the host RAM, transferring it over the PCI-e bus to the GPU RAM is the bottleneck of many deep learning use cases.
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Converting an existing image into an Openslide compatible format
Many digital pathology tools (e.g., our quality control tool, HistoQC), employ Openslide, a library for reading whole slide images (WSI). Openslide provides a reliable abstraction away from a number of proprietary WSI file-formats, such that a single programmatic interface can be employed to access WSI meta and image data.
Unfortunately, when smaller regions of interest, or new images, are created in tif/png/jpg formats they no longer remain compatible with OpenSlide. This blog post discusses how to take any image and convert it into an OpenSlide compatible WSI, with embedded metadata.
Continue reading Converting an existing image into an Openslide compatible formatExporting and re-importing annotations from QuPath for usage in machine learning
Update-Nov 2020: Code has now been placed in github which enables the reading and writing of compressed geojson files at all stages of the process described below. Compression reduces the file size by approximately 93% : )
QuPath is a digital pathology tool that has become especially popular because it is both easy to use to and supports a large number of different whole slide image (WSI) file formats. QuPath is also able to perform a number of relevant analytical functions with a few mouse clicks. Of interest in this blog post is mentioning that the pathologists we tend to work with are either already familiar with QuPath, or find it easier to learn versus other tools. As a result, QuPath has become a goto tool for us for both the creation, and review of, annotations and outputs created by our algorithms.
Here we introduce a robust method using GeoJSON for exporting annotations (or cell objects) from QuPath, importing them into python as shapely objects, operating upon them, and then re-importing a modified version of them back into QuPath for downstream usage or review. As an example use case we will be looking at computationally identifying lymphocytes in WSIs of melanoma metastases using a deep learning classifier.
Continue reading Exporting and re-importing annotations from QuPath for usage in machine learningImage popups on mouse over in Jupyter Notebooks
Animation below speaks for itself : )
Finally put together a script which makes jupyter notebooks plots interactive, such that when hovering over a scatter point plot, the underlying image displays, see demo + code below:
Code is available here: https://github.com/choosehappy/Snippets/blob/master/interactive_image_popup_on_hover.py