Lots of black around MIRAX slides

[ajwood at mta.ca]

Hi Adam,

Attached is a sample slidedat.ini file from my slides. I hope it's useful :)

Andrew


Quoting Adam Goode <adam at spicenitz.org>:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> This is a problem, I agree. There should be a way to get the actual
> bounding box of the image, unfortunately no such way currently exists.
>
> It may be the case that we are failing to read some new feature of
> MIRAX. Is it possible for you to attach your SLIDEDAT.INI file to this
> thread? If you need to remove identifying information first, please do
> so by replacing with XXXX or such.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam
>
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 15:05,  <ajwood at mta.ca> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'll narrow my question down a little bit... The dimensions I get back from
> > `openslide_get_layer_dimensions` seem to always be larger than the actual
> > image. For roughly square images, the y dimension is about twice as large
> as
> > the x dimension.
> >
> > Is there a good way to get the dimensions of the actual image area (i.e.
> the
> > blob somewhere in a middle where alpha>0)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> > Quoting ajwood at mta.ca:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm noticing that when I read MIRAX slides, there is a lot of black around
> >> the
> >> valuable part of the image. This black doesn't show up when I convert the
> >> slides with a Windows proprietary conversion software, but it does when I
> >> read
> >> the slides with OpenSlide.
> >>
> >> Is the proprietary software simply smart enough to crop away the black, or
> am
> >> I
> >> maybe reading the slide incorrectly?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Andrew
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