Overview

Here’s an overview of the general concepts in QuPath:

• Your images may (and probably should) be organized in a Project

  • Each image in the project is represented by a ProjectImageEntry

  • When you open a ProjectImageEntry, you get an ImageData displayed in the viewer

    • The ImageData stores a few things, including:

      • The ImageType (e.g. Brightfield, Fluorescence)

      • Any ColorDeconvolutionStains required (if brightfield)

      • An ImageServer, for accessing pixels and metadata

      • A PathObjectHierarchy, containing PathObjects in a tree-like structure

        • Each PathObject contains a ROI and a MeasurementList

When you analyze an image in QuPath, you take your ImageData, access pixels from the ImageServer and try to represent what the image contains in the PathObjectHierarchy.

Then you query the object hierarchy to extract some kind of summary measurements.