ilastik is a user-friendly free
open source software for
image classification
Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the hum ...
and
segmentation. No previous experience in image processing is required to run the software.
Features
ilastik allows user to annotate an arbitrary number of classes in images with a
mouse interface. Using these user annotations and the generic (
nonlinear
In mathematics and science, a nonlinear system is a system in which the change of the output is not proportional to the change of the input. Nonlinear problems are of interest to engineers, biologists, physicists, mathematicians, and many othe ...
) image
features, the user can train a
random forest classifier. ilastik has a
CellProfiler module to use ilastik classifiers to process images within a
CellProfiler framework.
History
ilastik was first released in 2011 by scientists at the Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing (HCI),
University of Heidelberg
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.
Application
* The Interactive Learning and Segmentation Toolkit
* Carving
* Cell classification and neuron classification
* Synapse detection
* Cell tracking
Resources
ilastik project is hosted on
GitHub
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. It is a collaborative project, any contributions such as comments, bug reports, bug fixes or code contributions are welcome.
References
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