The Pathology AI Library

The library

OpenSlide

C library with Python bindings for reading proprietary whole-slide formats.

Cost
Free
Hardware
Runs on any laptop
Offline
Works without a connection
Your data
Stays on your machine
Licence
LGPL-2.1
Maturity
production
From
Carnegie Mellon University
WebsiteSource code

What it is

The foundational library for reading vendor whole-slide formats (Aperio, Hamamatsu, Leica, MIRAX and others) through one common interface. Most Python pathology tooling depends on it.

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