Cytario User Guide¶
Welcome to the Cytario User Guide. Cytario is a web-based platform for browsing, viewing, and analyzing digital pathology data — whole-slide images, multi-channel fluorescence, and the tabular and segmentation data around them — stored in S3-compatible object storage.
This guide helps you get up and running quickly, then takes you through the platform in depth.
Who this guide is for
Cytario serves several roles — from clinical and technical pathologists reviewing slides, to bioinformaticians analyzing cell-segmentation data, to the administrators who connect storage and manage their organization. The Getting Started section is the fastest route to your first image for everyone; later sections go deeper per role.
If you are new to Cytario¶
Start here — a ten-minute, variant-independent walkthrough that gets you from sign-in to your first slide:
Understanding the editions¶
Cytario ships in a few forms, and which surfaces you see depends on how your organization runs it. See Editions & self-hosting for a clear breakdown — it exists so you can tell what belongs to your deployment without getting lost in the differences.
About the product¶
Cytario is research-use-only software. It is designed for reviewing and quantitatively analyzing digitized pathology slides and is intended for use in research and laboratory settings.