Wndchrm - an open source utility for biological image analysis

Background: Biological imaging is an emerging field, covering a wide range of applications in biological and clinical research. However, while machinery for automated experimenting and data acquisition has been developing rapidly in the past years, automated image analysis often introduces a bottleneck in high content screening. Methods: Wndchrm is an open source utility for biological image analysis. The software works by first extracting image content descriptors from the raw image, image transforms, and compound image transforms. Then, the most informative features are selected, and the feature vector of each image is used for classification and similarity measurement. Results: Wndchrm has been tested using several publicly available biological datasets, and provided results which are favorably comparable to the performance of task-specific algorithms developed for these datasets. The simple user interface allows researchers who are not knowledgeable in computer vision methods and ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: SCFBM
• Authors: Lior Shamir, Nikita Orlov, D. Mark Eckley, Tomasz J. Macura, Josiah Johnston, Ilya G. Goldberg
• Keywords: Biological, Image Analysis, Images, SCFBM 2008