Project overview¶
Draft content
This overview is being prepared. Confirmed grant language, partner names, and publication details will be added from the project team's reference material.
What BDSA is¶
The Brain Digital Slide Archive (BDSA) is a shared digital pathology infrastructure for neuropathology. It connects participating institutions to a common archive so that whole-slide images, annotations, and derived analysis results can be managed together instead of living in disconnected local systems.
BDSA is built on the open-source Digital Slide Archive, the same platform used by the Cancer Digital Slide Archive and by pathology groups worldwide. Each institution can run its own DSA node while sharing a common metadata schema and access model.
Why a brain-focused archive¶
Neuropathology collections are large, longitudinal, and spread across institutions. A shared archive makes it possible to:
- keep images with standardized case and specimen metadata;
- view and annotate slides without moving multi-gigabyte files between labs;
- compare findings across sites and stain protocols; and
- curate public datasets for methods development and benchmarking.
How the project fits together¶
| Layer | What it provides |
|---|---|
| DSA nodes | Per-institution storage, viewing, annotation, and analysis |
| Shared schema | Common case, specimen, and assay metadata (published at api.bdsa.io) |
| Public data | Open collections and reference material at pub-data.bdsa.io |
| Documentation | Guides, tutorials, and reference at info.bdsa.io/docs |
Funding and partners¶
To be supplied by the project team.
Publications¶
To be supplied by the project team. The Digital Slide Archive's own papers and success stories are listed in the DSA documentation.
Contact and collaboration¶
For questions about the project, data access, or collaboration, contact the Gutman Lab at Emory University. Software questions and bug reports are best filed in the relevant GitHub repository: