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GlassCut: Fast and flexible histopathology image tiling library.

A lightweight, extensible library for extracting tiles from whole slide images (WSI) with support for multiple tiling strategies, and parallel processing.

Core Components:
Slide I/O:

  • Slide: WSI reader with backend abstraction

  • Tile: Individual tile image with metadata

Tiling Strategies:

  • Tiler: Abstract base class for tiling strategies

  • GridTiler: Regular grid tiling with optional overlap

Tissue Detection:

  • OtsuTissueDetector: Otsu method tissue detection

Stain Normalization:

  • MacenkoNormalizer: Stain color normalization

  • ReinhardtNormalizer: Fast color transfer-based normalization

See documentation at: https://github.com/CamiloSinningUN/glasscut