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rwmjtoday at 11:26 AM1 replyview on HN

https://dicom.nema.org/dicom/dicomwsi/

Interesting guide to the Whole Slide Images (WSI) format. The surprising thing for me is that compression is used, and they note does not affect use in diagnostics.

Back in the day we used TIFF for a similar application (X-ray detector images).


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yreadtoday at 3:05 PM

Digital pathology are just a lot bigger than radiology, we regularly see slides 500k x 500k pixels.