PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Peter Bankhead
AU  - Maurice B Loughrey
AU  - José A Fernández
AU  - Yvonne Dombrowski
AU  - Darragh G McArt
AU  - Philip D Dunne
AU  - Stephen McQuaid
AU  - Ronan T Gray
AU  - Liam J Murray
AU  - Helen G Coleman
AU  - Jacqueline A James
AU  - Manuel Salto-Tellez
AU  - Peter W Hamilton
TI  - QuPath: Open source software for digital pathology image analysis
AID  - 10.1101/099796
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 099796
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/01/12/099796.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/01/12/099796.full
AB  - QuPath is new bioimage analysis software designed to meet the growing need for a user-friendly, extensible, open-source solution for digital pathology and whole slide image analysis. In addition to offering a comprehensive panel of tumor identification and high-throughput biomarker evaluation tools, QuPath provides researchers with powerful batch-processing and scripting functionality, and an extensible platform with which to develop and share new algorithms to analyze complex tissue images. Furthermore, QuPath’s flexible design make it suitable for a wide range of additional image analysis applications across biomedical research.