Table 1.
WSIs platforms comparison
| Platform | Type of platform | Main programming language | WSIs reading system | Integrates collaboration tools | Data storage technologies | Default type of analysis | Imaging modalities | License | Contributors in the main repository | Releases year | Popularity ranking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DSA | Web-base | Python | OpenSlide | Yes | Mongodb | Pre-processing, segmentation and feature extraction | Bright-field | Apache-2.0 License | 11 | 2020 | 3 |
| QuPath | Desktop | Java | Bio-Formats and OpenSlide | Partial | OMERO | Object and pixel classification | Bright-field and fluorescent images | GPLv3 license | 9 | 2016 | 1 |
| Orbit | Desktop with some web properties | Java | Bio-Formats | No | SQLite and OMERO | Pixel classification, object segmentation and object classification | Bright-field and fluorescence multi-channel images | GPLv3 license | 4 | 2016 | 4 |
| Cytomine | Web-base | Goovy/Java (Cytomine-Core) | Bio-Formats and OpenSlide | Yes | Mongodb and PostgresSQL | Image classification, semantic segmentation, and landmark detection | Bright-field, fluorescent images and multispectral data | Apache-2.0 License | 10 | 2016 | 2 |