Nature Methods, volume 9, issue 7, pages 671-675
NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis
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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.,
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Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2012-06-28
Journal:
Nature Methods
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Impact factor: 48
ISSN: 15487091, 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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DO - 10.1038/nmeth.2089
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TI - NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis
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AU - Schneider, Caroline A
AU - Rasband, Wayne S
AU - Eliceiri, Kevin W.
PY - 2012
DA - 2012/06/28 00:00:00
PB - Springer Nature
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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.