Fractalcyte

Fractal compressionRustDigital Pathology

Overview

Whole slide images are one of the largest medical artifacts in daily use, spanning several gigabytes even when compressed. This raises storage costs and slows image transmission to the pathologist.

Fractalcyte is a

Features

  • An easy command-line tool fractalcyte
  • Creates a compressed *.frac fractal file, which can be decompressed back into a whole slide image (a pyramidal tiff)

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