Brain Digital Slide Archive¶
The Brain Digital Slide Archive (BDSA) is a shared neuropathology imaging project built on the open-source Digital Slide Archive. It gives collaborating brain banks, Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers, and research labs one place to store, view, annotate, and analyze whole-slide images without locking the data into a single institution.
This site describes the project and hosts a mirror of the Digital Slide Archive documentation.
Start here¶
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Using the archive?
Connect to a BDSA node, find a slide, annotate it, and run an analysis. The DSA documentation mirror covers the whole workflow.
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Looking for data?
Browse the public neuropathology collections and their metadata.
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Learning about the project?
What BDSA is, who is involved, and how the project is funded.
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Working on the software?
The documentation source and component library live on GitHub.
What you can do with BDSA¶
- Store whole-slide images and derived files in a versioned, access-controlled archive.
- View slides in the browser with the HistomicsUI viewer, at full resolution and across magnification levels.
- Annotate regions and structures, alone or as a team, with an auditable annotation record.
- Analyze slides with containerized analysis tasks and keep results next to the image they came from.
- Share collections with collaborators or publish selected datasets for the wider research community.
Documentation¶
The complete Digital Slide Archive documentation — getting started, tutorials, the user guide, administration, and API/component reference — is mirrored at info.bdsa.io/docs/. The same content is published from GitHub at gutman-lab.github.io/dsa-docs, where it is easier to discover and search.
About this site
This site is being set up as the BDSA project home. The project and grant overview is a draft until the project team supplies the final reference text.