The ImageJ ecosystem: An open platform for biomedical image analysis

Molecular Reproduction and Development - Tập 82 Số 7-8 - Trang 518-529 - 2015
Johannes Schindelin1, Curtis Rueden1, Mark Hiner1, Kevin W. Eliceiri1
1Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.

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SUMMARYTechnology in microscopy advances rapidly, enabling increasingly affordable, faster, and more precise quantitative biomedical imaging, which necessitates correspondingly more‐advanced image processing and analysis techniques. A wide range of software is available—from commercial to academic, special‐purpose to Swiss army knife, small to large—but a key characteristic of software that is suitable for scientific inquiry is its accessibility. Open‐source software is ideal for scientific endeavors because it can be freely inspected, modified, and redistributed; in particular, the open‐software platform ImageJ has had a huge impact on the life sciences, and continues to do so. From its inception, ImageJ has grown significantly due largely to being freely available and its vibrant and helpful user community. Scientists as diverse as interested hobbyists, technical assistants, students, scientific staff, and advanced biology researchers use ImageJ on a daily basis, and exchange knowledge via its dedicated mailing list. Uses of ImageJ range from data visualization and teaching to advanced image processing and statistical analysis. The software's extensibility continues to attract biologists at all career stages as well as computer scientists who wish to effectively implement specific image‐processing algorithms. In this review, we use the ImageJ project as a case study of how open‐source software fosters its suites of software tools, making multitudes of image‐analysis technology easily accessible to the scientific community. We specifically explore what makes ImageJ so popular, how it impacts the life sciences, how it inspires other projects, and how it is self‐influenced by coevolving projects within the ImageJ ecosystem. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 82: 518–529, 2015. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Molecular Reproduction and Development

Tập 82 Số 7-8

518-529

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