"an open, powerful, flexible, extensible software platform for bioimage analysis"

References:

• Bankhead, Peter, et al. "QuPath: Open source software for digital pathology image analysis." Scientific reports 7.1 (2017): 1-7.

• QuPath Main Site
• QuPath Read the docs

This application generally requires a graphical connection using NX

• Module Name: QuPath (see the modules page for more information)
• Environment variable set
  • QUPATH_ROOT
• Example files in $QUPATH_ROOT/TESTDATA

Start a session in NX, open a terminal, allocate an interactive session, and run the program.
Sample session (user input in bold):

[user@biowulf ~]$ sinteractive -c8 --mem=16g --gres=lscratch:10
salloc: Pending job allocation 30957652
salloc: job 30957652 queued and waiting for resources
salloc: job 30957652 has been allocated resources
salloc: Granted job allocation 30957652
salloc: Waiting for resource configuration
salloc: Nodes cn0849 are ready for job

[user@cn0849 ~]$ cd /lscratch/$SLURM_JOB_ID

[user@cn0849 30957652]$ module load QuPath
[+] Loading QuPath  0.3.2  on cn0849 
[+] Loading singularity  3.8.5-1  on cn0849 

[user@cn0849 30957652]$ cp -r $QUPATH_ROOT/TESTDATA .

[user@cn0849 30957652]$ cd TESTDATA/

[user@cn0849 TESTDATA]$ ls
CMU-1-JP2K-33005.svs  CMU-1-Small-Region.svs  CMU-1.svs  CMU-2.svs  CMU-3.svs  index.yaml  JP2K-33003-1.svs  JP2K-33003-2.svs

[user@cn0849 TESTDATA]$ QuPath.sh --image CMU-1-JP2K-33005.svs
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: Option --illegal-access is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
Jan 25, 2022 9:04:02 PM com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl startup
WARNING: Unsupported JavaFX configuration: classes were loaded from 'unnamed module @616fe72b'
21:04:04.013 [JavaFX Application Thread] [INFO ] qupath.lib.common.ThreadTools - Setting parallelism to 7
21:04:04.336 [JavaFX Application Thread] [INFO ] qupath.lib.gui.QuPathGUI - QuPath build: Version: 0.3.2
Build time: 2022-01-17, 08:49
Latest commit tag: '71884c6'
21:04:04.337 [JavaFX Application Thread] [INFO ] qupath.lib.gui.QuPathGUI - Setting tile cache size to 48312.00 MB (25.0% max memory)

(QuPath:11973): Gdk-WARNING **: 16:04:05.273: XSetErrorHandler() called with a GDK error trap pushed. Don't do that.
21:04:05.888 [JavaFX Application Thread] [INFO ] qupath.lib.scripting.QP - Initializing type adapters
21:04:06.648 [JavaFX Application Thread] [INFO ] q.l.i.s.b.BioFormatsOptionsExtension - Bio-Formats version 6.7.0
21:04:06.651 [JavaFX Application Thread] [INFO ] qupath.lib.gui.QuPathGUI - Loaded extension Bio-Formats options (Bio-Formats 6.7.0) (18 ms)
21:04:06.721 [JavaFX Application Thread] [INFO ] qupath.lib.gui.QuPathGUI - Loaded extension ImageJ extension (69 ms)
21:04:06.750 [JavaFX Application Thread] [INFO ] qupath.lib.gui.QuPathGUI - Loaded extension Processing extension (29 ms)
21:04:06.830 [JavaFX Application Thread] [INFO ] qupath.lib.gui.QuPathGUI - Loaded extension Rich script editor extension (79 ms)
21:04:06.831 [JavaFX Application Thread] [INFO ] qupath.lib.gui.QuPathGUI - Loaded extension SVG export extension (1 ms)
21:04:06.877 [JavaFX Application Thread] [INFO ] q.l.i.s.o.OpenslideServerBuilder - OpenSlide version 3.4.1
21:04:07.549 [JavaFX Application Thread] [INFO ] qupath.lib.gui.QuPathApp - Starting QuPath with parameters: [--image=CMU-1-JP2K-33005.svs]
21:04:07.550 [qupathgui-1] [INFO ] qupath.lib.gui.QuPathGUI - Update check for https://github.com/qupath/qupath
21:04:07.910 [qupathgui-1] [ERROR] qupath.lib.gui.QuPathGUI - Update check failed for QuPath (owner=qupath, repo=qupath)
21:04:07.965 [JavaFX Application Thread] [INFO ] q.l.i.s.b.BioFormatsServerOptions - Setting max Bio-Formats readers to 8
21:04:08.245 [JavaFX Application Thread] [WARN ] q.l.i.s.b.BioFormatsImageServer$ReaderPool - Temp memoization directory created at /tmp/qupath-memo-4974945218509452371
21:04:08.245 [JavaFX Application Thread] [WARN ] q.l.i.s.b.BioFormatsImageServer$ReaderPool - If you want to avoid this warning, either specify a memoization directory in the preferences or turn off memoization by setting the time to < 0
21:04:12.187 [JavaFX Application Thread] [INFO ] qupath.lib.gui.viewer.QuPathViewer - Image data set to ImageData: Not set, CMU-1-JP2K-33005.svs

In addition to running through the GUI, QuPath.sh can be used to run scripts non-interactively. Create a groovy script with the image processing commands you want to run e.g. myScript. Then create a batch input file (e.g. QuPath_batch.sh). For example:

#!/bin/bash
set -e
module load QuPath
QuPath.sh script myScript

Submit this job using the Slurm sbatch command.

sbatch [--cpus-per-task=#] [--mem=#] QuPath_batch.sh

Create a swarmfile (e.g. QuPath.swarm). For example:

QuPath.sh script Script1
QuPath.sh script Script2
QuPath.sh script Script3
QuPath.sh script Script4

Submit this job using the swarm command.

swarm -f QuPath.swarm [-g #] [-t #] --module QuPath