Posts by Prateek Chokse
hipCIM 26.06: GPU-Accelerated Whole-Slide Image I/O on AMD Instinct™ GPUs
- 20 October 2026
Every whole-slide image tells a story in pixels. A whole-slide image is a glass pathology slide scanned into a single very large digital image, stored as a pyramid of small tiles so a viewer can pan and zoom it. A single biopsy digitized at 20× magnification can span tens of thousands of pixels on each side and weigh in at several gigabytes. Before a model can learn anything from that slide, something has to read it off disk, decode its thousands of small JPEG-compressed tiles, and turn them into tensors the accelerator can work on. In digital pathology, that unglamorous first step is often where the wall-clock time quietly disappears.