Tile

The tile module contains the Tile class to manage a rectangular region cropped from a Slide. A Tile object is described by (i) its extraction coordinates at native magnification (corresponding to level 0 in OpenSlide), (ii) the level of extraction, (iii) the actual image, stored as a PIL Image. A Tile object will be created internally during the tile extraction process.

class Tile(image, coords, level=0)[source]

Provide Tile object representing a tile generated from a Slide object.

Parameters
  • image (PIL.Image.Image) – Image describing the tile

  • coords (CoordinatePair) – Level 0 Coordinates of the Slide from which the tile was extracted

  • level (int, optional) – Level of tile extraction, by default 0

apply_filters(filters)[source]

Apply a filter or composition of filters on a tile.

Parameters

filters (imf.Filter) – Filter or composition of filters to be applied

Returns

Tile with the filters applied

Return type

Tile

property coords: histolab.types.CoordinatePair

Level 0 Coordinates of the Slide from which the tile was extracted

Returns

Level 0 Coordinates of the Slide from which the tile was extracted

Return type

CoordinatePair

has_enough_tissue(tissue_percent=80.0, near_zero_var_threshold=0.1)[source]

Check if the tile has enough tissue.

This method checks if the proportion of the detected tissue over the total area of the tile is above a specified threshold (by default 80%). Internally, the method quantifies the amount of tissue by applying a chain of filters, including conversion to grayscale, Otsu thresholding, binary dilation and small holes filling.

Parameters
  • tissue_percent (float, optional) – Number between 0.0 and 100.0 representing the minimum required percentage of tissue over the total area of the image, default is 80.0

  • near_zero_var_threshold (float, optional) – Minimum image variance after morphological operations (dilation, fill holes), default is 0.1

Returns

enough_tissue – Whether the image has enough tissue, i.e. if the proportion of tissue over the total area of the image is more than tissue_percent and the image variance after morphological operations is more than near_zero_var_threshold.

Return type

bool

property image: PIL.Image.Image

Image describing the tile.

Returns

Image describing the tile.

Return type

PIL.Image.Image

property level: int

Level of tile extraction.

Returns

Level of tile extraction.

Return type

int

save(path)[source]

Save tile at given path.

The format to use is determined from the filename extension (to be compatible to PIL.Image formats). If no extension is provided, the image will be saved in png format.

Parameters

path (str or pathlib.Path) – Path to which the tile is saved.

Return type

None

property tissue_ratio: float

Ratio of the tissue area over the total area of the tile.

Returns

Ratio of the tissue area over the total area of the tile

Return type

float