Nature Methods, volume 9, issue 7, pages 671-675

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

Schneider Caroline A 1
Rasband Wayne S 2
Eliceiri Kevin W. 1
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Caroline A. Schneider and Kevin W. Eliceiri are at the Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.,
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Wayne S. Rasband is at the Section on Instrumentation, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.,
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2012-06-28
Journal: Nature Methods
Quartile SCImago
Q1
Quartile WOS
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Impact factor48
ISSN15487091, 15487105
PubMed ID:  22930834
Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
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.

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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1038/nmeth.2089
UR - https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnmeth.2089
TI - NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis
T2 - Nature Methods
AU - Schneider, Caroline A
AU - Rasband, Wayne S
AU - Eliceiri, Kevin W.
PY - 2012
DA - 2012/06/28 00:00:00
PB - Springer Nature
SP - 671-675
IS - 7
VL - 9
PMID - 22930834
SN - 1548-7091
SN - 1548-7105
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@article{2012_Schneider,
author = {Caroline A Schneider and Wayne S Rasband and Kevin W. Eliceiri},
title = {NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis},
journal = {Nature Methods},
year = {2012},
volume = {9},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
month = {jun},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnmeth.2089},
number = {7},
pages = {671--675},
doi = {10.1038/nmeth.2089}
}
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Schneider, Caroline A., et al. “NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis.” Nature Methods, vol. 9, no. 7, Jun. 2012, pp. 671-675. https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnmeth.2089.
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