scikit-image (formerly scikits.image) is an

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for the

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programming language. It includes algorithms for segmentation, geometric transformations, color space manipulation, analysis, filtering, morphology, feature detection, and more. It is designed to interoperate with the Python numerical and scientific libraries NumPy and

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Overview

The scikit-image project started as scikits.image, by Stéfan van der Walt. Its name stems from the notion that it is a "SciKit" (SciPy Toolkit), a separately-developed and distributed third-party extension to SciPy. The original codebase was later extensively rewritten by other developers. Of the various scikits, scikit-image as well as

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were described as "well-maintained and popular" . Scikit-image has also been active in the

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Implementation

scikit-image is largely written in Python, with some core algorithms written in

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to achieve performance.

References

External links

* * https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image {{SciPy ecosystem Image processing software Python (programming language) scientific libraries Software using the BSD license