PixelDeck: A local-first media library manager for biomedical imaging
Benjamin L. Kidder · 2026
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Description
Organizing huge biomedical image collections on a local workstation is the purpose of PixelDeck, presented by Benjamin L. Kidder in a 2026 software paper. Labs in histology and fluorescence microscopy generate overwhelming piles of images and videos that plain file systems handle poorly.
PixelDeck is an open-source browser application that imports files recursively, flags duplicates by SHA-256 hashing, extracts metadata, builds thumbnails, and offers full-text search over a SQLite-backed store. Benchmarks on libraries up to 1000 assets showed import speeds above 500 files per minute and typical search answers in milliseconds. Keeping everything local-first suits sensitive research data and ordinary hardware.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Benjamin L. Kidder |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24821 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |