GridPatch to Extract Tiles/Patches

[bhashemian]

Fixes #4012

Description

This PR implement GridPath and GridPatchd that extracts patches sweeping the entire image. It will return a list of patches (and not a generator) to have a priorly defined number of patches, which is useful for the subsequent transforms and handlers. This transform should be able to replace the functionality of TileOnGrid for pathology pipelines.

Status

Ready/Work in progress/Hold

Types of changes

• Non-breaking change (fix or new feature that would not break existing functionality).
• Breaking change (fix or new feature that would cause existing functionality to change).
• New tests added to cover the changes.
• Integration tests passed locally by running ./runtests.sh -f -u --net --coverage.
• Quick tests passed locally by running ./runtests.sh --quick --unittests --disttests.
• In-line docstrings updated.
• Documentation updated, tested make html command in the docs/ folder.

[bhashemian]

@wyli @Nic-Ma This PR requires PR #4239 to be merged first. Thanks

[Nic-Ma]

Thanks for the quick update.
It overall looks good to me, just some minor comments inline and several questions to @ericspod @rijobro .

Thanks.

[bhashemian]

Hi @Nic-Ma @Ericspo, thank you very much for your comments. I have addressed them all. Please let me know if anything is missing.

[Nic-Ma]

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[Nic-Ma]

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[Nic-Ma]

Thanks for the quick update.
Looks good to me.
@ericspod do you have any other comments?

Thanks.

[ericspod]

I'm good here!

[Nic-Ma]

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[Nic-Ma]

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