Project Overview
Welcome to my first foray into the wonderful world of serious programming, where I created a little gem designed to calculate the area percentage of immune histochemistry microscopy. Picture this: a simple, sleek tool that takes your color settings and works its magic, returning the area of the microscopy that meets those settings with precision.
Technologies Used
- Python
- OpenCV
Story
Ah, my first internship, a glorious time filled with excitement, learning, and the occasional existential crisis. My mission, should I choose to accept it (spoiler: I did), was to tackle the world of immunohistochemistry images and quantify immune infiltration in cancer treated with an engineered virus. Yeah, that’s a mouthful!
So there I was, faced with a pile of images that looked like a colorful abstract painting gone wrong. My task? Draw over these images to identify the areas of immune response. Sounds simple, right? Wrong. My finger was getting sore from all the clicking and dragging, and I quickly realized that I was basically a glorified digital doodler. It was time for a change.
Enter my superhero moment! I decided to create a program that would automate this painstaking selection process. Picture it: a custom-made tool that would allow me to set some color parameters and then drumroll, please return the area percentage of the immune response in a matter of seconds!
In the end, I went from a mere intern struggling with a mouse to a programming wizard wielding the power of automation. Sure, it was a simple and small program, but it felt like I had just built the Eiffel Tower of immunohistochemistry analysis. And as I watched my creation perform its magic, I couldn’t help but think: who needs to draw over images when you can just let a program do it? Mission accomplished!
Ah, but here’s the kicker! My boss and I both knew programs that could do this existed, but every single one I found was either locked behind a paywall or hidden in the shadows of the internet. It felt like searching for a unicorn in a field of donkeys! They promised the world but required a king’s ransom. So, we decided to take matters into our own hands. Why pay a fortune when I could whip up my own little creation? I went from digital doodler to tech-savvy savior, all while saving a few bucks in the process. Who knew programming could be so rewarding?
Links
And just a quick note: no links here because, honestly, I’m not sure how much of my code I can share. Gotta keep some mystery alive, right? Besides, we all know that the world of code-sharing can be a bit of a legal minefield. So, I’ll just let my little program bask in its own glory while I maintain my air of enigmatic programmer charm!