Promoting Discovery Through Collaboration
Collaborative image management for pathology
Collaborative Workspace for Pathology Images, Analysis, and Data
HALO Link is a browser-based hub for pathology that helps research organizations worldwide to safely and securely manage, share, and analyze digital slides and data. Offering limitless data organization with robust search capabilities, seamless collaboration, and flexible options for image analysis and custom integrations, HALO Link is a pathology workspace without bounds.
All Your Data, Within Reach
Streamline your workflows and boost productivity by seamlessly incorporating images, metadata, and image analysis. Quickly find and leverage all your data with a flexible study-based architecture, advanced search and filter tools, and customizable and collaborative workflows.
Collaboration Without Limits
Collaborate with colleagues anytime, anywhere with the easy-to-use invitation system in HALO Link. Users can be organized by group and invited simultaneously to studies or personal slide trays for collaboration on shared image markups and analysis results.
Ensure data security and integrity with role-based access permissions. Complement your existing Good Laboratory Practices SOPs with auditing and reason for change capture through the Compliance Add-On. Contact us today to discuss how the Compliance Add-On can complement your existing SOPs to aid Good Laboratory Practices.
Ready for AI-Powered Image Analysis
HALO Link users can leverage industry leading image analysis from HALO® and HALO AI. Annotations and analysis results are fully connected between HALO Link and HALO thanks to a shared database. Apply any saved analysis settings or classifiers and visualize results within HALO Link on both brightfield and fluorescence images.
Brightfield Image Analysis
Fluorescence Image Analysis
Deep Learning-Based Classifiers
Prefer a third-party image analysis solution? Ask us how you can leverage the application programming interface (API) of HALO Link to integrate the image analysis tools of your choice.
Flexible Integration and Deployment Options
HALO Link enables you to build the digital pathology ecosystem that fits your needs. HALO Link is compatible with files from all major scanners, and its powerful API enables integration with LIS | LIMS systems, compatible third-party image analysis platforms, including Discovery by Visiopharm®, and other third-party databases. Need a custom integration? Our teams have extensive experience in integration development.
HALO Link can be deployed on premise or in the cloud, and our technical and Cloud Services teams will support your IT department with all aspects of deployment.
Time-Saving Automation
Stay up-to-date with newly scanned slides and increase your productivity with the automation capabilities of HALO Link. Users can have new images and data automatically added from slide scanners as soon as they are acquired or pull from third-party databases. Automated information parsing from 1D and 2D barcodes means less time spent on data entry.
Features of the HALO Link Collaborative Image Management Platform
HALO Link features a powerful and intuitive browser-based image viewer. Change magnification, pan through images using Ergo mode, and optimize fluorescent image visualization using a channel histogram and real-time previewing of changes.
Efficiently annotate slides and manage annotations across slides. Deploy a robust collection of annotation tools, including flood-fill and undo-redo, and leverage the annotation manager feature to create annotation layers across slides and perform bulk annotation actions.
Organize without limits and quickly access your data thanks to a study-focused design and flexible data hierarchies. Find recently accessed and favorited studies on the study landing page and smoothly navigate sub-studies using the study tree display. Leverage custom study and slide fields at every level for easy task tracking and metadata organization.
Get a deeper understanding of your results, quicker, with interactive markups that allow you to toggle the visibility of cell populations of interest.
Construct slide trays to temporarily host slides for more selective review with collaborators. Trays can contain slides from multiple studies and any associated metadata, annotations, or analysis markups are included. Inviting collaborators to trays is straightforward due to the intuitive invitation and user group systems.
HALO Link enables users to leverage the latest industry leading tools in image analysis and classification. With seamless integration with Indica Labs’ HALO® platform, users can launch quantitative image analysis using HALO settings, efficiently sort, filter, view, and analyze segmented TMA cores, and deploy advanced HALO AI classifiers, like Indica Labs’ SlideQC BF for detecting folds and other common artifacts.
Organize workflows and track progress and results with the flexible tasks system in HALO Link. Create custom task fields to fit the needs of a study, and quickly update task status within the slide viewer. Sort and filter slides based on task status to identify slides with pending, failed, or completed tasks.
Quickly locate slides and studies of interest with the variety of search parameters in HALO Link. Search metadata using compound criteria, navigate to results or add them to a slide tray, and save searches for future reuse or modification.
Meet regulatory and compliance requirements with the Compliance Add-on. Labs can leverage exportable study and system-wide audit trails, reason for change capture, and a viewing-only mode.
Acquire publication quality figures in just a few clicks with the figure maker feature. Quickly define the number of frames and optimize reference frames, scale bars, labels, and more. Save figures to edit later or download at your desired image size and resolution.
HALO Link empowers system administrators to customize their deployment with a fully featured Admin dashboard. Administrators can easily manage configuration details and users, create system-wide metadata fields, view login attempts, and review active jobs and requests.
Comprehensive Training and Support Services
At Indica Labs, we take pride in providing top-quality support. Unlimited IT support, scientific support, training, and access to our Learning Portal are included with every license at no additional cost. With support staff in the US, UK, EU, China, and Japan, you are supported in any time zone.
Already using another digital pathology platform? We understand that the idea of moving to something new can be daunting. It may not be as hard as you think! Reach out to us to find out how simple transitioning can be.
Platform Compatibility
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
HALO Link is compatible with a wide range of file formats, devices and browsers. Yours not on the list? Email us your requirements.
Knowledge Center
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HALO Platforms for Life Sciences Brochure
Download our brochure to learn about our HALO, HALO AI, and HALO Link platforms, and how they can advance your digital pathology image analysis and management workflows.
HALO, HALO AI, & HALO Link Cloud Services Brochure
Discover how our Cloud Services team can provide a secure, scalable, and flexible cloud deployment of HALO, HALO AI, and HALO Link.
HALO in the Cloud at the University of Washington
Read this case study to learn how partnering with our Cloud Services team has delivered greater scalability and cost efficiency for the BioRepository and Integrated Neuropathology laboratory at University of Washington Medicine.
NCI Case Study
Download this case study to learn about considerations the National Cancer Institute made when planning to migrate its HALO, HALO AI, and HALO Link deployments to the cloud, and benefits the NCI experienced after migration, including 50% faster HALO image analysis.
COVID-19 Digital Pathology Repository at NCI Case Study
Read this case study to see 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.
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.
AI-Assisted Quality Control for Artifact Detection: Deployment in Image Management System with GLP Support
Download our poster to learn how artifact detection with the AI-powered SlideQC BF can advance your quality control pipelines with the GLP support of HALO Link.
Pharma Services and HALO Link White Paper
Download our white paper to learn how Indica Labs’ Pharma Services collaborates with customers and delivers HALO and HALO AI image analysis using HALO Link.
Indica Labs and Visiopharm Deliver an Integrated Digital Pathology Image Management and Analysis Solution
Albuquerque, NM and Hørsholm, Denmark, April 9, 2025 – Indica Labs and Visiopharm today announce the successful integration of Visiopharm’s Discovery image analysis software into
Leica Biosystems and Indica Labs Announce Significant Strategic Investment and Creation of Digital Pathology Platform
Vista, CA, and Albuquerque, NM, January 8, 2025 – Leica Biosystems, a global leader in anatomic and digital pathology solutions, and Indica Labs, a global
Indica Labs Joins the AWS Partner Network
Albuquerque, NM, December 4, 2024 – Indica Labs, the global leader in AI-powered digital pathology software and services, announced today that they have joined the
Indica Labs Expands Availability of HALO Digital Pathology Solutions in Asia Pacific Region Including CE-IVDR Marked HALO AP® Platform
Albuquerque, NM – 2 July 2024 – Indica Labs today announces the expansion of their reseller network in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.
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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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