LazySlide: Accessible and interoperable whole slide image analysis
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      **LasySlide** LazySlide is a Python framework for whole slide image (:term:`WSI`) analysis,
      designed to integrate seamlessly with the `scverse`_ ecosystem.

      By adopting standardized data structures and APIs familiar to the single-cell and genomics community,
      LazySlide enables intuitive, interoperable, and reproducible workflows for histological analysis.
      It supports a range of tasks from basic preprocessing to advanced deep learning applications,
      facilitating the integration of :term:`histopathology` into modern computational biology.

Key features
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* **Interoperability**: Built on top of `SpatialData`_, ensuring compatibility with scverse tools like `Scanpy`_, `Anndata`_, and `Squidpy`_. Check out `WSIData`_ for more details.
* **Accessibility**: User-friendly APIs that cater to both beginners and experts in :term:`digital pathology`.
* **Scalability**: Efficient handling of large WSIs, enabling high-throughput analyses.
* **Multimodal integration**: Combine histological data  with transcriptomics, genomics (:term:`omics data`), and textual :term:`annotation <annotations>`.
* **Foundation model support**: Native integration with state-of-the-art models (e.g., UNI, CONCH, Gigapath, Virchow) for tasks like :term:`zero-shot learning <zero-shot classification>` and captioning.
* **Deep learning ready**: Provides PyTorch dataloaders for seamless integration into machine learning pipelines.

Whether you're a novice in digital pathology or an expert computational biologist, LazySlide provides a scalable and modular foundation to accelerate AI-driven discovery in tissue biology and pathology.

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      How to install LazySlide

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      Get started with LazySlide

   .. grid-item-card:: Model Zoo
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      Available models in LazySlide

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      API reference in LazySlide

   .. grid-item-card:: Contributing
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      Contribute to Lazyslide

   .. grid-item-card:: Contributors
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      The team behind LazySlide

.. _scverse: https://scverse.org/
.. _WSIData: https://wsidata.readthedocs.io/
.. _SpatialData: https://spatialdata.scverse.org/
.. _Scanpy: https://scanpy.readthedocs.io/
.. _Anndata: https://anndata.readthedocs.io/
.. _Squidpy: https://squidpy.readthedocs.io/