HistoImagePlot

HistoImagePlot creates side-by-side visualizations of tissue thumbnail images and HoverNet cell segmentation with colored cell type labels for exploratory analysis of histopathological images.

Key Features:

• Automatic Image Retrieval: Automatically retrieves the thumbnail image associated with a HoverNet JSON file.
• Segmentation Overlay: Overlays HoverNet segmentation data onto tissue thumbnail images.
• Colored Cell Type Labels: Displays cell type labels with color coding in the visualization.
• Side-by-Side Visualization: Generates paired visualizations of original tissue images and segmented cell data.
• Bioconductor Integration: Integrates with the imageFeatureTCGA Bioconductor package.

Scientific Applications:

• Histopathological Image Analysis: Supports researchers working with histopathological images in exploratory analysis workflows.
• Cell Segmentation Visualization: Enables visual inspection and validation of HoverNet cell segmentation results.
• Cancer Tissue Studies: Facilitates analysis of tissue samples through integration with TCGA-related image features via imageFeatureTCGA.

Methodology:

Automatically retrieves thumbnail images associated with HoverNet JSON files and overlays the segmentation data with colored cell type labels.