Author: malat-guest Date: 2011-09-02 07:26:52 +0000 (Fri, 02 Sep 2011) New Revision: 7614
Modified: trunk/packages/openslide/trunk/debian/control Log: more verbose Modified: trunk/packages/openslide/trunk/debian/control =================================================================== --- trunk/packages/openslide/trunk/debian/control 2011-09-02 07:00:47 UTC (rev 7613) +++ trunk/packages/openslide/trunk/debian/control 2011-09-02 07:26:52 UTC (rev 7614) @@ -18,6 +18,22 @@ OpenSlide is a C library that provides a simple interface to read whole-slide images also known as virtual slides. . + Whole-slide images, also known as virtual slides, are large, high resolution + images used in digital pathology. Reading these images using standard image + tools or libraries is a challenge because these tools are typically designed + for images that can comfortably be uncompressed into RAM or a swap file. + Whole-slide images routinely exceed RAM sizes, often occupying tens of + gigabytes when uncompressed. Additionally, whole-slide images are typically + multi-resolution, and only a small amount of image data might be needed at a + particular resolution. + . + This library currently supports: + -Trestle (.tif) + -Hamamatsu (.vms, .vmu) + -Aperio (.svs, .tif) + -MIRAX (.mrxs) + -Generic tiled TIFF (.tif) + . This package contains the libraries needed to run OpenSlide applications. Package: libopenslide3-dev @@ -28,4 +44,20 @@ OpenSlide is a C library that provides a simple interface to read whole-slide images also known as virtual slides. . + Whole-slide images, also known as virtual slides, are large, high resolution + images used in digital pathology. Reading these images using standard image + tools or libraries is a challenge because these tools are typically designed + for images that can comfortably be uncompressed into RAM or a swap file. + Whole-slide images routinely exceed RAM sizes, often occupying tens of + gigabytes when uncompressed. Additionally, whole-slide images are typically + multi-resolution, and only a small amount of image data might be needed at a + particular resolution. + . + This library currently supports: + -Trestle (.tif) + -Hamamatsu (.vms, .vmu) + -Aperio (.svs, .tif) + -MIRAX (.mrxs) + -Generic tiled TIFF (.tif) + . This package contains development files needed to build OpenSlide applications. _______________________________________________ debian-med-commit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-med-commit
