Promoting Discovery Through Collaboration

Collaborative image management for pathology

An Open Platform for Image & Data Management

With support for almost every digital slide format on the market, seamless integration to HALO and HALO AI, and open APIs to facilitate third-party integrations, HALO Link is helping research organizations worldwide to safely and securely manage and share digital slides and analysis data.

 

Manage Slides

Organize images into studies, add new images automatically using the background File Monitor, or simply drag and drop new images and files into HALO Link. Make data entry easier by pulling information from an LIS system’s 1D barcodes, by parsing information directly from 2D barcodes, or by importing discrete data into matching custom metadata fields. Search, sort, and filter slides from any data, and quickly add selected slides to temporary trays for future examination.

Share Securely

Assign role-based access permissions to study participants and keep editing privileges in practiced hands. Invite remote collaborators to view or modify patient/specimen data, slide data and attachments, comments, annotations, image analysis mark-ups, and analysis results. Open multiple images into the integrated viewer and start a conference to really focus discussions and annotations of regions of interest.

Analyze Remotely

Compatible with most digital slide formats, including brightfield and fluorescence. Images, annotations, markups and analysis are fully connected across applications, and edits from either will be visible in both HALO and HALO Link. Both may also be used to initiate and monitor analysis jobs, to export analysis results, to add and remove HALO AI Classifier training regions, and to operate AI training processes.

Visualize Trends

Use any data fields in combination with analysis results to create simple, interactive scatterplots. Each point on the scatterplot is linked back to the original image, allowing users to open and review markup images and analysis results for outliers in a single click. Use these to evaluate trends and to verify the quality of analysis runs.

Customize Your Solution

Different slide labels, different scanners, varying applications and number of users – every HALO Link installation is unique. HALO Link is designed to be flexible enough to accommodate a broad diversity of customers and what many of our competitors sell as customizations are included standard with HALO Link. Of course, if there is something our off-the-shelf product can’t do for you, our dedicated HALO Link professional services team can help build a customized solution. 

Data Migration

Already using a slide/image management system?  We understand that the idea of moving to something new can be daunting even when you are unhappy with your current solution.  It may not be as hard as you think!  Indica Labs’ IT specialists are well-versed in data migration, will explain the process in transparent detail, & will work to make the switch as seamless as possible.

 

Platform Compatibility

HALO Link is compatible with a broad spectrum of image file formats, devices and browsers.  Not on the list?  Email us your requirements.

File Formats:

  • Non-proprietary (JPG, TIF, OME.TIFF)
  • Nikon (ND2)
  • 3DHistech (MRXS)
  • Akoya (QPTIFF, component TIFF)
  • Olympus / Evident (VSI)
  • Hamamatsu (NDPI, NDPIS)
  • Aperio (SVS, AFI)
  • Zeiss (CZI)
  • Leica (SCN, LIF)
  • Ventana (BIF)
  • Philips (iSyntax, i2Syntax)
  • KFBIO (KFB, KFBF)
  • DICOM (DCM*)
    *whole-slide images

Devices:

  • Windows PC
  • Macintosh
  • Most Tablets

Browsers:

  • Chrome (recommended)
  • Firefox

Knowledge Center

Learn more about HALO Link by exploring the tabs below.

NCI Case Study

Learn about potential benefits of moving to the cloud in this case study describing the National Cancer Institute’s migration of its HALO, HALO AI, and HALO Link deployments.

COVID-19 Digital Pathology Repository at NCI Case Study

Discover how HALO Link facilitates real-time international collaboration on high-resolution digital pathology images from COVID-19 patient tissues hosted at the National Institutes of Health.

Ultivue Case Study

Read how Indica Labs deployed every component of the HALO and HALO Link software in the Amazon Cloud so Ultivue employees can analyze, share, and view images anywhere, anytime.

Fred Hutch Case Study

Check out this case study to learn how the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center deployed HALO Link to overcome barriers to image and data sharing with collaborators inside and outside of the institution.

Our customers are making vital discoveries in research fields including oncology, immunology, infectious disease, and metabolism. Check out some of the research our customers are publishing using the HALO Link Image Management Platform.

Clinical, histopathological and molecular features of dedifferentiated melanomas: An EORTC Melanoma Group Retrospective Analysis

Melanoma, a highly aggressive type of skin cancer originating from pigment-producing cells called melanocytes, can be a source of diagnostic confusion for pathologists. While primary melanomas are easily recognizable, metastatic melanomas can dedifferentiate and exhibit varied and misleading cyto-architectural characteristics,...

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Cancer cell genotype associated tumor immune microenvironment exhibits differential response to therapeutic STING pathway activation in high-grade serous ovarian cancer

High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSC) is known to have a high degree of both genetic and immunologic heterogeneity, can be resistant to chemotherapy, and commonly recurs in patients. It is also the most common form of ovarian cancer and represents...

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Booster with Ad26.COV2.S or Omicron-adapted vaccine enhanced immunity and efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron in macaques

SARS-CoV-2 vaccines based on the ancestral Wuhan-Hu-1 Spike (S) protein have been shown to be effective in preventing severe COVID-19, hospitalization, and death. The evolution of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VoC) exhibiting increasing genetic distance from Wuhan-Hu-1, such as Omicron...

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HALO Link Pharma Services White Paper

Download our Pharma Services and HALO Link white paper to learn how Indica Labs’ Pharma Services collaborates with customers by using HALO Link.

China User Group Meeting

Indica Labs’ China User Group Meeting Date: 18 October 2023 Time: 13:30 – 17:30 Location: Evergreen Laurel Hotel – Shanghai For more information, please email china@indicalab.com.

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Literature

Learn more about applications of HALO Link in this selection of our most popular application notes, publication lists, white papers, and more!

Transitioning to the Cloud: Establishing a Collaborative Digital Pathology Platform at the National Cancer Institute

After the National Cancer Institute migrated their HALOHALO AI, and HALO Link deployments to the cloud, they experienced 50% faster HALO image analysis in the cloud environment! Learn about additional benefits of cloud deployment for the NCI, considerations they made when planning their deployment, and more in our latest case study. 

COVID-19 Digital Pathology Repository at NCI Delivers Images to Researchers for Real-Time Collaboration

The COVID-19 DPR is a virtual collection of high-resolution digital pathology images from COVID-19 patient tissues hosted at the National Institutes of Health. The DPR provides a much-needed mechanism for real-time international collaboration facilitated by Indica Labs’ HALO Link image management platform.

Ultivue Delivers More Image Analysis Data to Customers Faster

Read how Indica Labs deployed every component of the HALO and HALO Link software in the Amazon Cloud so Ultivue employees can analyze, share, and view images anywhere, anytime.

Fred Hutch Gives Cancer Researchers Freedom to Explore and Collaborate

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center deployed HALO Link to overcome barriers to image and data sharing with collaborators inside and outside of the institution. 

Leveraging the HALO Link Collaborative Image Management Platform at a Contract Research Organization

Download our new Pharma Services and HALO Link white paper to learn how Indica Labs’ Pharma Services collaborates with customers by using HALO Link.

Publication Spotlight

Our customers are making vital discoveries in oncology, neuroscience, and diabetes research.  Check out some of the research our customers are publishing using the HALO Link Image Management Platform.

Clinical, histopathological and molecular features of dedifferentiated melanomas: An EORTC Melanoma Group Retrospective Analysis

Melanoma, a highly aggressive type of skin cancer originating from pigment-producing cells called melanocytes, can be a source of diagnostic confusion for pathologists. While primary melanomas are easily recognizable, metastatic melanomas can dedifferentiate and exhibit varied and misleading cyto-architectural characteristics,...

Learn More
Cancer cell genotype associated tumor immune microenvironment exhibits differential response to therapeutic STING pathway activation in high-grade serous ovarian cancer

High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSC) is known to have a high degree of both genetic and immunologic heterogeneity, can be resistant to chemotherapy, and commonly recurs in patients. It is also the most common form of ovarian cancer and represents...

Learn More
Booster with Ad26.COV2.S or Omicron-adapted vaccine enhanced immunity and efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron in macaques

SARS-CoV-2 vaccines based on the ancestral Wuhan-Hu-1 Spike (S) protein have been shown to be effective in preventing severe COVID-19, hospitalization, and death. The evolution of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VoC) exhibiting increasing genetic distance from Wuhan-Hu-1, such as Omicron...

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More Resources

HALO AP® and HALO Link: Selecting the Right Image Management Platform for Your Lab or Clinic

Webinar

Learn how to select an image management platform from Indica Labs and learn about available deployment and integration options  

 

HALO Link Masterclass Webinar: Making the Most out of a Collaborative Image Database

Webinar

Learn to maximize utility of the HALO Link collaborative image management platform

Indica Labs, Octo and Axle work with NIH to launch a global COVID-19 digital pathology repository

Press Release

Albuquerque, NM and Reston, VA– May 21, 2020 – Indica Labs, a leading provider of computational pathology software, and Octo, a premiere information technology systems provider to the U.S. Federal Government, are pleased to announce the online COVID Digital Pathology Repository (COVID-DPR), a virtual collection of high resolution microscopic COVID-related human tissue images hosted at the National Institutes of Health.

Deploy HALO Link in a Fully Managed Cloud-Hosted Environment

Indica Labs offers optimized deployments of HALO Link software hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS). We manage all aspects of implementation and ongoing maintenance to provide a highly performant, scalable, and secure HALO Link environment in the cloud. You maintain full ownership over your AWS account while our AWS Certified Solutions Architects manage your infrastructure and HALO software environments.

Learn more about benefits of cloud-hosted environments in our recent blog post. Or reach out today to our Cloud Services team by using the form below, to learn whether a managed cloud deployment is right for you.

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