Use of OpenSlide with Florescent MRXS

[Benjamin Gilbert]

On 12/14/2012 05:09 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>> OpenSlide needs some new API in order to support
>> fluorescence images.
>
> Out of curiosity what is wrong with the current API ? Why not simply
> duplicate the grayscale value in all ARGB fields ?

The current API does not provide a list of fluorescence channels, and 
openslide_read_region() has no argument for indicating a channel.

Also, the application shouldn't need to allocate a buffer for four 
channels when two of them are redundant.

--Benjamin Gilbert