openslide

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  "why_use_this": "OpenSlide abstracts away the complexity of parsing dozens of proprietary whole-slide image (WSI) formats used in digital pathology and medical imaging. Use it if you\u0027re building image analysis pipelines, pathology software, or tools that need to tile and extract regions from gigapixel scans. Primarily a dependency for higher-level tools and research code."
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