Leverage the Serial Section Analysis Add-on for HALO® to streamline your workflows for both serial section analysis and serial stain fusion analysis. For serial section analysis, the add-on enables users to create a tissue classifier based off a reference slide, such as an H&E image, and apply the resulting classification mask as regions of interest in serial section(s) stained for additional IHC markers. Serial section analysis is compatible with both brightfield and fluorescent images, and any of our HALO modules can be used for the final analysis step.
The serial stain fusion component of this add-on facilitates analysis of single slides that have been stained, stripped, and restained. In this workflow, brightfield images are deconvolved into their composite stains and converted to pseudo-fluorescent images before subsequent registration using a customizable set of configuration settings. Fluorescent images can also be registered using this workflow, just skip the deconvolution step. Lastly, the registered serial stain images can be fused into a single composite fluorescent image that can be analyzed using Highplex FL or any of our other fluorescent modules.
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File formats supported by the HALO image analysis platform:
- Non-proprietary (JPG, TIF, OME.TIFF)
- Nikon (ND2)
- 3D Histech (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

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Publication Spotlight
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| Title | Authors | Year | Journal | Topics | HALO Modules | Products |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distinct immune cell infiltration patterns in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) exhibit divergent immune cell selection and immunosuppressive mechanisms | Sivakumar S, Jainarayanan A, Arbe-Barnes E, Sharma P K, Leathlobhair M N, Amin S, Reiss D J, Heij L, Hegde S, Magen A, Tucci F, Sun B, Wu S, Anand N M, Slawinski H, Revale S, Nassiri I, Webber J, Hoeltzel G D, Frampton A E, Wiltberger G, Neumann U, Charlton P, Spiers L, Elliott T, Wang M, Couto S, Lila T, Sivakumar P V, Ratushny A V, Middleton M R, Peppa D, Fairfax B, Merad M, Dustin M L, Abu-Shah E, Bashford-Rogers R | 2025 | Nature Communications | Immuno-oncology | Classifier, Multiplex IHC, Registration | HALO |
| Nanrilkefusp alfa (SOT101), an IL-15 receptor βγ superagonist, as a single agent or with anti-PD-1 in patients with advanced cancers | Champiat S, Garralda E, Galvao V, Cassier P A, Gomez-Roca C, Korakis I, Grell P, Naing A, LoRusso P, Mikyskova R, Podzimkova N, Reinis M, Ouali K, Schoenenberger A, Kiemle-Kallee J, Tillmanns S, Sachse R, Moebius U, Spisek R, Bechard D, Jelinkova L P, Adkins I, Marabelle A | 2025 | Cell Reports Medicine | Immuno-oncology | Spatial Analysis, Highplex FL, Registration | HALO |
| Spatial mapping of innate lymphoid cells in human lymphoid tissues and lymphoma at single-cell resolution | Van Acker N, Frenois F-X, Gravelle P, Tosolini M, Syrykh C, Laurent C, Brousset P | 2025 | Nature Communications | Immuno-oncology | Spatial Analysis, Highplex FL, Registration | HALO |
| Neoadjuvant radioimmunotherapy in pancreatic cancer enhances effector T cell infiltration and shortens their distances to tumor cells | WANG J, GAI J, ZHANG T, NIU N, QI H, THOMAS II D L, LI K, XIA T, RODRIGUEZ C, PARKINSON R, DURHAM J, MCPHAUL T, NARANG A K, ANDERS R A, OSIPOV A, WANG H, HE J, LAHERU D A, HERMAN J M, LEE V, JAFFEE E M, THOMPSON E D, ZHU Q, ZHENG L | 2024 | Science Advances | Immuno-oncology | Spatial Analysis, Highplex FL, Registration | HALO |
| Tertiary lymphoid structures and B cells determine clinically relevant T cell phenotypes in ovarian cancer | Kasikova L, Rakova J, Hensler M, Lanickova T, Tomankova J, Pasulka J, Drozenova J, Mojzisova K, Fialova A, Vosahlikova S, Laco J, Ryska A, Dundr P, Kocian R, Brtnicky T, Skapa P, Capkova L, Kovar M, Prochazka J, Praznovec I, Koblizek V, Taskova A, Tanaka H, Lischke R, Mendez F C, Jr J V, Heinzelmann-Schwarz V, Jacob F, McNeish I A, Halaska M J, Rob L, Cibula D, Orsulic S, Galluzzi L, Spisek R, Fucikova J | 2024 | Nature Communications | Oncology | Classifier, Highplex FL, Registration | HALO |
| Development of a dual channel detection system for pan-genotypic simultaneous quantification of hepatitis B and delta viruses | Liu Y, Maya S, Carver S, O’Connell AK, Tseng AE, Gertje HP, Seneca K, Nahass RG | 2024 | Emerging Microbes & Infections | Infectious Disease | Registration | HALO |
| Pan-cancer single-cell dissection reveals phenotypically distinct B cell subtypes | Yang Y, Chen X, Pan J, Ning H, Zhang Y, Bo Y, Ren X, Li J, Qin S, Wang D, Chen M, Zhang Z | 2024 | Cell | Immuno-oncology | Spatial Analysis, Highplex FL, Registration | HALO |
| Chemotherapy drives tertiary lymphoid structures that correlate with ICI-responsive TCF1+CD8+ T cells in metastatic ovarian cancer | Lanickova T, Hensler M, Kasikova L, Vosahlikova S, Angelidou A, Pasulka J, Griebler H, Drozenova J, Mojzisova K, Vankerckhoven A, Laco J, Ryška A, Dundr P, Kocian R, Cibula D, Brtnicky T, Skapa P, Jacob F, Kovar M, Praznovec I, McNeish I A, Halaska M J, Rob L, Coosemans A, Orsulic S, Galluzzi L, Spisek R, Fucikova J | 2024 | Clinical Cancer Research | Immuno-oncology | Classifier, Highplex FL, Registration | HALO |
| A Cdh3-β-catenin-laminin signaling axis in a subset of breast tumor leader cells control leader cell polarization and directional collective migration | Hwang P, Mathur J, Cao Y, Almeida J, Ye J, Morikis V, Cornish D, Clarke M, Stewart S, Pathak A, Longmore G | 2023 | Developmental Cell | Oncology | Highplex FL, Registration | HALO |
| Standardized pathology screening of mature Tertiary Lymphoid Structures in cancers | Vanhersecke L, Bougouin A, Crombe A, Brunet M, Sofeu C, Parrens M, Pierron H, Bonhomme B, Lembege N, Rey C, Velasco V, Soubeyran I, Begueret H, Bessede A, Bellera C, Scoazec J-Y, Italiano A, Fridman C, Fridman W, Le Loarer F | 2023 | Laboratory Investigation | Other | Highplex FL, Registration | HALO |
| Fucosylation of HLA-DRB1 regulates CD4+ T cell-mediated anti-melanoma immunity and enhances immunotherapy efficacy | Lester D, Burton C, Gardner A, Innamarato P, Kodumudi K, Liu Q, Adhikari E, Ming Q, Williamson D, Frederick D, Sharova T, White M, Markowitz J, Cao B, Nguyen J, Johnson J, Beatty M, Mockabee-Macias A, Mercurio M, Watson G, Chen P-L, McCarthy S, MoranSegura C, Messina J, Thomas K, Darville L, Izumi V, Koomen J, Pilon-Thomas S, Ruffell B, Luca V, Haltiwanger R, Wang X, Wargo J, Boland G, Lau E | 2023 | Nature Cancer | Immuno-oncology | Registration | HALO |
| CXCL9 and CXCL13 coordinately shape the immune-activated microenvironment of endometrial cancer via tertiary lymphoid structure formation | Kodama M, Nagase Y, Aimono E, Nakamura K, Takamatsu R, Abe K, Yoshimura T, Chiyoda T, Yamagami W, Aoki D, Nishihara H | 2023 | Research Square | Immuno-oncology | Registration | HALO |
| MYC-driven increases in mitochondrial DNA copy number occur early and persist throughout prostatic cancer progression | Chen J, Zheng Q, Hicks J, Trabzonlu L, Ozbek B, Jones T, Vaghasia A, Larman T, Wang R, Markowski M, Denmeade S, Pienta K, Hruban R, Antonaraskis E, Gupta A, Dang C, Yegnasubramanian S, De Marzo A | 2023 | bioRxiv | Oncology | Classifier, Area Quantification, Serial Section | HALO |
| PD-1+CD8+ T Cells Proximal to PD-L1+CD68+ Macrophages Are Associated with Poor Prognosis in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Patients | Yang X, Wang G, Song Y, Zhuang T, Li Y, Xie Y, Fei X, Zhao Y, Xu D, Hu Y | 2023 | Cancers | Oncology, Immuno-oncology | Classifier, Spatial Analysis, Highplex FL, Registration | HALO |
| The localization of molecularly distinct microglia populations to Alzheimer’s disease pathologies using QUIVER | Shahidehpour R, Nelson A, Sanders L, Embry C, Nelson P, Bachstetter A | 2023 | Acta Neuropathologica Communications | Neuroscience | Area Quantification, Object Colocalization, Spatial Analysis, Registration | HALO |
| Quantitative intravital imaging for real-time monitoring of pancreatic tumor cell hypoxia and stroma in an orthotopic mouse model | Samuel T, Rapic S, O’Brien C, Edson M, Zhong Y, DaCosta R | 2023 | Science Advances | Oncology | Registration | HALO |
| Whole-Slide Imaging, Mutual Information Registration for Multiplex Immunohistochemistry and Immunofluorescence | Doyle J, Green B, Eminizer M, Jimenez-Sanchez D, Lu S, Engle E, Xu H, Ogurtsova A, Lai J, Soto-Diaz S, Roskes J, Deutsch J, Taube J, Sunshine J, Szalay A | 2023 | Laboratory Investigation | Other | Multiplex IHC, Registration | HALO |
| A machine learning approach toward automating spatial identification of LAG3+/CD3+ cells in ulcerative colitis | Bonnevie ED, Dobrzynski E, Steiner D, Hildebrand D, Monslow J, Singh M, Decman V, Krull DL | 2023 | Scientific Reports | Gastroenterology | Highplex FL, Registration | HALO, HALO AI |
| Spatial Mapping of Human Hematopoiesis at Single Cell Resolution Reveals Aging-Associated Topographic Remodeling | Sarachakov A, Varlamova A, Svelolkin V, Polyakova M, Valencia I, Unkenholz C, Pannellini T, Galkin I, Ovcharov P, Tabakov D, Postovalova E, Shin N, Sethi I, Bagaev A, Itkin T, Crane GM, Kluk MJ, Geyer JT, Inghirami GGA, Patel SS | 2023 | Blood | Other | Registration | HALO |
| Inhibition of the proline metabolism rate-limiting enzyme P5CS allows proliferation of glutamine-restricted cancer cells | Linder S, Bernasocchi T, Martínez-Pastor B, Sullivan K, Galbraith M, Lewis C, Ferrer C, Boon R, Silveira G, Cho H, Vidoudez C, Shroff S, Oliveira-Costa J, Ross K, Massri R, Matoba Y, Kim E, Rueda B, Stott S, Gottlieb E, Espinosa J, Mostoslavsky R | 2023 | Nature Metabolism | Oncology, Metabolism | Multiplex IHC, Registration | HALO |
| Gastric tubular adenocarcinoma with diffuse neutrophils infiltrating: characteristics and probable treatment strategy | Wang B, Zhu Y, Wang S, Li Z, Wang L, Rao W, Cheng N, Chen R, Ying J, Xue L | 2023 | Gastric Cancer | Oncology | Multiplex IHC, Spatial Analysis, Registration | HALO |
| African-Ancestry Associated Gene Expression Signatures and Pathways in Triple Negative Breast Cancer, a Comparison across Women of African Descent | Martini R, Delpe P, Chu T, Arora K, Lord B, Verma A, Chen Y, Gebregzabher, Oppong J, Adjei E, Jibril A, Awuah B, Bekele M, Abebe E, Kyei I, Aitpillah F, Adinku M, Ankomah K, Osei-Bonsu E, Chitale D, Bensenhaver J, Nathanson S, Jackson L, Jiagge E, Petersen L, Proctor E, Gyan K, Gibbs L, Monojlovic Z, Kittles R, White J, Yates C, Manne U, Gardner K, Mongan N, Cheng E, Ginter P, Hoda S, Elemento O, Robine N, Sboner A, Carpten J, Newman L, Davis M | 2022 | medRxiv | Oncology | Multiplex IHC, Serial Section | HALO |
| Multiplex Immunohistochemical Phenotyping of T Cells in Primary Prostate Cancer | Ozbek B, Ertunc O, Erickson A, Vidal I, Gomes-Alexandre C, Guner G, Hicks J, Jones T, Taube J, Sfanos K, Yegnasubramanian S, DeMarzo A | 2022 | The Prostate | Immuno-oncology | Classifier, Serial Section, Registration, Figure Maker | HALO |
| Tertiary lymphoid structures generate and propagate anti-tumor antibody-producing plasma cells in renal cell cancer | Meylan M, Petitprez F, Becht E, Bougouin A, Pupier G, Calvez A, Giglioli I, Verkarre V, Lacroix G, Verneau J, Sun C, Laurent-Puig P, Vano Y, Reynaud C, Reynies A, Sautes-Fridman C, Fridman W | 2022 | Immunity | Oncology | Spatial Analysis, Registration | HALO, HALO AI |
| A lncRNA signature associated with tumor immune heterogeneity predicts distant metastasis in locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma | Liang Y, Zhang Y, Tan X, Qiao H, Liu S, Tang L, Mao Y, Chen L, Li W, Zhou G, Zhao Y, Li J, Li Q, Huang S, Gong S, Zheng Z, Li Z, Sun Y, Jiang W, Ma J, Li Y, Liu N | 2022 | Nature Communications | Immuno-oncology | Multiplex IHC, Registration | HALO |
| Prostate cancer androgen receptor activity dictates efficacy of Bipolar Androgen Therapy | Sena L, Kumar R, Sanin D, Thompson E, Rosen D, Dalrymple S, Antony L, Yang Y, Comes-Alexandre C, Hicks J, Jones T, Bowers K, Eskra J, Meyers J, Gupta A, Skaist A, Yegnasubramanian S, Luo J, Brennen W, Kachhap S, Antonarakis E, De Marzo A, Isaacs J, Markowski M, Denmeade S | 2022 | medrxiv | Oncology | Classifier, Cytonuclear, Multiplex IHC, Registration | HALO |
| Dynamic and adaptive cancer stem cell population admixture in colorectal neoplasia | Vasquez E, Nasreddin N, Valbuena G, Mulholland E, Belnoue-Davis H, Eggington H, Schenck R, Wouters V, Wirapati P, Gilroy K, Lannagan R, Flanagan D, Nujumudeen A, Omwenga S, McCorry A, Easton A, Koelzer V, East J, Morton D, Trusolino L, Maughan T, Campbell A, Loughrey M, Dunne P, Tsantoulis P, Juels D, Tejpar S, Sansom O, Leedham S | 2022 | Cell Stem Cell | Oncology | Registration | HALO |
| Immune cells in mesothelioma microenvironment simplistic marker of response to nivolumab plus ipilimumab | Disselhorst M, Lubeck Y, van der Noort V, Quispel-Janssen J, Seignette I, Sanders J, Peters D, Hooijberg E, Baas P | 2022 | Lung Cancer | Oncology | Multiplex IHC, Registration | HALO |
| Systemic Nos2 Depletion and Cox inhibition limits TNBC disease progression and alters lymphoid cell spatial orientation and density | Somasundaram V, Ridnour L, Cheng R, Walke A, Kedei N, Bhattacharyya D, Wink A, Edmondson E, Butcher D, Warner A, Dorsey T, Scheiblin D, Heinz W, Bryant R, Kinders R, Lipkowitz S, Wong S, Pore M, Hewitt S, McVicar D, Anderson S, Chang J, Glynn S, Ambs S, Lockett S, Wink D | 2022 | Redox Biology | Oncology | Classifier, Registration | HALO |
| Assessment of spatial transcriptomics for oncology discovery | Lyubetskaya A, Rabe B, Fisher A, Lewin A, Neuhaus I, Brett C, Brett T, Pereira E, Golhar R, Kebede S, Font-Tello A, Mosure K, Wittenberghe N, Mavrakis K, Maclsaac K, Chen B, Drokhlyansky E | 2022 | Cell Reports Methods | Oncology | Registration | HALO, HALO AI |
| Unchecked oxidative stress in skeletal muscle prevents outgrowth of disseminated tumour cells | Crist S, Nemkov T, Dumpit R, Dai J, Tapscott S, True L, Swarbrick A, Sullivan L, Nelson P, Hansen K, Ghajar C | 2022 | Nature Cell Biology | Myology | Registration | HALO |
| PERK reprograms hematopoietic progenitor cells to direct tumor-promoting myelopoiesis in the spleen | Liu M, Wu C, Luo S, Hua Q, Chen H, Weng Y, Xu J, Lin H, Wang L, Li J, Zhu L, Guo Z, Zhuang S, Kang T, Zheng L | 2022 | Journal of Experimental Medicine | Oncology | Highplex FL, Registration | HALO |
| Metastatic recurrence in colorectal cancer arises from residual EMP1+ cells | Canellas-Socias A, Cortina C, Hernando-Momblona X, Palomo-Ponce S, Mulholland E, Turon G, Mateo L, Conti S, Roman O, Sevillano M, Slebe F, Stork D, Caballe-Mestres A, Berenguer-Llergo A, Alvarez-Varela A, Fenderico N, Novellasdemunt L, Jimenez-Gracia L, Sipka T, Bardia L, Lorden P, Colombelli J, Heyn H, Trepat X, Tejpar S, Sancho E, Tauriello D, Leedham S, Attolini C, Batlle E | 2022 | Nature | Oncology | Classifier, Highplex FL, Registration | HALO |
| SeqStain is an efficient method for multiplexed, spatialomic profiling of human and murine tissues | Rajagopalan A, Venkatesh I, Aslam R, Kirchenbuechler D, Khanna S, Cimbaluk D, Kordower JH, Gupta V | 2021 | Cell Reports Methods | Other | Spatial Analysis, Highplex FL, Registration | HALO |
| Multiplex Immunohistochemical Phenotyping of T Cells in Primary Prostate Cancer | Ozbek B, Ertunc O, Erickson A, Vidal I, Alexandre C, Guner G, Hicks J, Jones T, Taube J, Sfanos K, Yegnasubramanian S, DeMarzo A | 2021 | medRxiv | Immuno-oncology | Classifier, Cytonuclear, Highplex FL, Serial Section, Registration | HALO |
| Neoadjuvant immunotherapy leads to pathological responses in MMR-proficient and MMR-deficient early-stage colon cancers | Chalabi M, Fanchi LF, Dijkstra KK, Van den Berg JG, Aalbers AG, Sikorska K, Lopez-Yurda M, Grootscholten C, Beets GL, Snaebjornsson P, Maas M, Mertz J, Veninga V, Bounova G, Broeks A, Beets-Tan RG, de Wijkerslooth TR, van Lent AU, Marsman HA, Nuijten E, Kok NF, Kuiper M, Verbeek WH, Kok M, Van Leerdam ME, Schumacher TN, Voest EE, Haanen JB | 2020 | Nature Medicine | Immuno-oncology | Multiplex IHC, Serial Section | HALO |
| Assessment of associations between clinical and immune microenvironmental factors and tumor mutation burden in resected nonsmall cell lung cancer by applying machine learning to whole-slide images | Ono A, Terada Y, Kawata T, Serizawa M, Isaka M, Kawabata T, Imai T, Mori K, Muramatsu K, Hayashi I, Kenmotsu H, Oshima K, Urakami K, Nagashima T, Kusuhara M, Akiyama Y, Sugino T, Ohde Y, Yamaguchi K, Takahashi T T | 2020 | Cancer Medicine | Immuno-oncology | Classifier, Multiplex IHC, Serial Section | HALO |
| Single-cell analysis of germinal-center B cells informs on lymphoma cell of origin and outcome | Holmes AB, Corinaldesi C, Shen Q, Kumar R, Compagno N, Wang Z, Nitzan M, Grunstein E, Pasqualucci L, Dalla-Favera R, Basso K | 2020 | Journal of Experimental Medicine | Oncology | Registration | HALO |
| Empiric Methods to Account for Pre-analytical Variability in Digital Histopathology in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration | Giannini LAA, Xie SX, Peterson C, Zhou C, Lee EB, Wolk DA, Grossman M, Trojanowski JQ, McMillan CT, Irwin DJ | 2019 | Frontiers in Neuroscience | Neuroscience | Area Quantification, Registration, Figure Maker | HALO |
| Multidimensional, quantitative assessment of PD-1/PD-L1 expression in patients with Merkel cell carcinoma and association with response to pembrolizumab | Giraldo NA, Nguyen P, Engle EL, Kaunitz GJ, Cottrell TR, Berry S, Green B, Soni A, Cuda JD, Stein JE, Sunshine JC, Succaria F, Xu H, Ogurtsova A, Danilova L, Church CD, Miller NJ, Fling S, Lundgren L, Ramchurren N, Yearley JH, Lipson EJ, Cheever M, Anders RA, Nghiem PT, Topalian SL, Taube JM | 2018 | Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer | Oncology, Immuno-oncology | Spatial Analysis, Serial Section | HALO |
| Cell signaling activation and extracellular matrix remodeling underpin glioma tumor microenvironment heterogeneity and organization | Dinevska M, Widodo S, Furst L, Cuzcano L, Fang Y, Mangiola S, Neeson P, Darcy P, Ramsay R, Hutchinson R, MacKay F, Christie M, Stylli S, Mantamadiotis T | 2022 | Cellular Oncology | Oncology | Classifier, Highplex FL, Registration | HALO |
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