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Histology Image Viewer and Converter (HIVC): A High-Speed Freeware Software to View and Convert Whole Slide Histology Images.

Sayed Ahmadreza RazianMajid Jadidi
Published in: Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering. Imaging & visualization (2023)
Histology images are widely used to assess the microstructure of biological tissues, but scanners often save images in bulky SVS and multi-layered TIFF formats. These formats were designed to archive image blocks and high-resolution textual information and are not compatible with conventional image analysis software. Our goal was to create a freeware Histology Image Viewer and Converter (HIVC) with a graphical user interface that allows viewing and converting whole-slide images in batch. HIVC was developed using C# Language for Windows x64 operating system. HIVC's performance was assessed by converting 20 whole-slide images to a JPG format at 20x and 40x resolution and comparing the results to ImageJ, Cell Profiler, QuPath, Nanoborb, and Aperio ImageScope. HIVC was more than 8-times faster in converting images than other software packages. This software allows high-speed batch conversion of histology images to traditional formats, permitting platform-independent secondary analyses.
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