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A Containerized Software System for Generation, Management, and Exploration of Features from Whole Slide Tissue Images

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Saltz, Joel, Sharma, Ashish, Iyer, Ganesh, Bremer, Erich, Wang, Feiqiao, Jasniewski, Alina, DiPrima, Tammy, Almeida, Jonas S. +4 more·2017·Cancer Research

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Well-curated sets of pathology image features will be critical to clinical studies that aim to evaluate and predict treatment responses. Researchers require information synthesized across multiple biological scales, from the patient to the molecular scale, to more effectively study cancer. This article describes a suite of services and web applications that allow users to select regions of interest in whole slide tissue images, run a segmentation pipeline on the selected regions to extract nuclei and compute shape, size, intensity, and texture features, store and index images and analysis results, and visualize and explore images and computed features. All the services are deployed as containers and the user-facing interfaces as web-based applications. The set of containers and web applications presented in this article is used in cancer research studies of morphologic characteristics of tumor tissues. The software is free and open source. Cancer Res; 77(21); e79–82. ©2017 AACR.

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Saltz, J., Sharma, A., Iyer, G., Bremer, E., Wang, F., Jasniewski, A., DiPrima, T., Almeida, J. S., Gao, Y., Zhao, T., Saltz, M., & Kurc, T.
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  • Stony Brook University (US)
  • Emory University (US)
  • 1Department of Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York.
Corresponding author
Saltz, Joel
Venue
Cancer Research
Published
2017-10-31
Volume
77
Issue
21
Pages
e79-e82
ISSN
  • 0008-5472 (ISSN-L)
  • 1538-7445
OpenAlex
W2766131660
Cited by
60
References
12
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1
FWCI
2.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cancer Research (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • NCI (1U24CA180924-01A1)
  • NLM (R01LM011119-01, R01LM009239)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › AI in cancer detection
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biophysics › Cell Image Analysis Techniques
Keywords
whole slide images, nuclei segmentation, containerized applications, web application, feature extraction, texture features, image indexing, tumor tissue analysis, open source software
MeSH terms
Humans, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Neoplasms, Software, User-Computer Interface, Internet

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