Opened draft histo PR #335, commit 9bfb69bb: public histo.mask_transforms.compute_benign_mask(cancer_masks, ignore_masks, *, output_shape); histo version 0.0.120.
Full output extent is assumed tissue. Complement of all cancer/ignore masks; nonzero foreground; boolean result; endpoint-index resizing for common-extent grids; no input mutation or I/O. Tests: 13 pass; lint/format/Linux mypy and wheel build pass. Native macOS mypy retains existing Linux-only os errors. CI pending.
Mono job research paused: existing generation code lived only in a histo experiment, whereas training consumes already-generated mask paths from a manifest. Proposed job publishes normal/refined benign maps to object storage, then registers HistoMaps with source provenance; CACHE_DIR only for temporary files.
Existing mono kuberun path needs resolution: installed CLI selects root Dockerfile.argo, not the vxdata-jobs Dockerfile via context-dir. No production job, uploads, or resource creation performed. Isolated mono worktree remains clean.
Pitfalls
Registering a HistoMap with a mounted path does not upload its data. Upload first and record durable object-storage URLs.
Normal/refined cancer masks imply different benign masks; pair source profiles explicitly. Refinement-excluded cancer pixels become benign under the current full-crop assumption.
Improvements
Keep mask arithmetic array-based and storage/datasource policy in the job. Existing virdx-ome handles raster I/O; no new generic writer wrapper is needed for this helper PR.
