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NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis.

Nature methods ·Vol. 9 ·No. 7 ·2012-07-00 ·Pages 671-5

Schneider CA, Rasband WS, Eliceiri KW

Abstract

For the past 25 years NIH Image and ImageJ software have been pioneers as open tools for the analysis of scientific images. We discuss the origins, challenges and solutions of these two programs, and how their history can serve to advise and inform other software projects.

MeSH Terms
Computational Biology/history,methods,trends History, 20th Century History, 21st Century Image Processing, Computer-Assisted/methods National Institutes of Health (U.S.) Software/history,trends United States
Authors & Affiliations
3 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Schneider Caroline A
Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Rasband Wayne S
Eliceiri Kevin W
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Article Info
Journal
Nature methods
Abbr.
Nat Methods
ISSN
1548-7105
DOI
10.1038/nmeth.2089
Published
2012-07-00
Pages
671-5
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
101215604
PMCID
PMC5554542
Subset
IM
Grants
NIGMS NIH HHS · RC2 GM092519 · United States
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2089 PMC Full Text View journal details
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