Whole slide images of different specimens from the Smithsonian Natural History Collection - Part IV

This folder contains three NanoZoomer Digital Pathology Images (NDPI) from whole-scanned slides containing three insects, including small white flies and beetles. It also contains an excel file with the information about the specimens imaged. To open, managing and analyze these NDPI files, Hamamatsu created NDP.view2, a free software (Hamamatsu 2018). There are also other free and open-access software tools created to open not only NDPI files but other propertary whole-slide images (WSI), such as: a) ImageJ Fiji, which has the NDPITools ImageJ plugin to convert the slides to standard TIFF format (Schindelin et al. 2012); and b) OpenSlide, a C library that provides a simple interface for reading the images (Goode et al. 2013). This can be used through different interfaces or platforms, such as Python with OpenSlide-Python, through OMERO (Open Microscopy Environment), and QuPath (Open Software for Bioimage Analysis).