> We looked into this a while back. You should be able to use the
> of svs file that can be opened. Since this format is typically used for
window. This is, of course, not entirely ideal as you still lose the
> We looked into this a while back. You should be able to use the
> LOCI-BioFormats plugin (
http://www.loci.wisc.edu/bio-formats/imagej) to
> open svs and many other formats.
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> The only problem with this is that there seems to be a limit in the size
> of svs file that can be opened. Since this format is typically used for
> whole-slide scans, which for us are 200-500Mb in size, we were not able to
> use it to open up and process entire slides.
>
> What we do as a workaround is to export the slide in CWS format (a folder
> of image tiles) and batch process these in ImageJ. The pain with this is
> that you lose the whole slide context for the markup/overlay image(s) and
> if you need to edit the ROI, this is much easier to do on the whole slide
> than 10s or 100s of tiles one at a time. CellProfiler apparently has some
> support for svs files but I haven't tried it myself.
>
> It would be fantastic if there was a beter solution for this. Someone
> could write a plugin using the Aperio SDK... Any thoughts from the board?
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
> Jim Deeds
> Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research, Inc.
> Oncology Translational Research US, Building 600 / 4C-421-01
> 250 Mass Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
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> does anyone know how to open and EDIT svs-file in ImageJ?
> Thanks,
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