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scikit-image: Image processing in Python

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1 Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2 Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
3 Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative, Carlton, VIC, Australia
4 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
5 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
6 AICBT Ltd, Oxford, UK
7 Joint Unit, CNRS / Saint Gobain, Aubervilliers, France
8 Enthought, Inc., Austin, TX, USA
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.336v2
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Subject Areas
Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computational Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Science and Medical Education
Keywords
image processing, reproducible research, education, visualization
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© 2014 van der Walt et al.
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van der Walt S, Schönberger JL, Nunez-Iglesias J, Boulogne F, Warner JD, Yager N, Gouillart E, Yu T, the scikit-image contributors. 2014. scikit-image: Image processing in Python. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e336v2

Abstract

scikit-image is an image processing library that implements algorithms and utilities for use in research, education and industry applications. It is released under the liberal "Modified BSD" open source license, provides a well-documented API in the Python programming language, and is developed by an active, international team of collaborators. In this paper we highlight the advantages of open source to achieve the goals of the scikit-image library, and we showcase several real-world image processing applications that use scikit-image.

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We have added some missing references, changed others (webpages) to indicate authorship more clearly, and slightly improved the last figure.

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Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests with regards to this manuscript.

Author Contributions

Stéfan van der Walt conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper, wrote software.

Johannes L Schönberger conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper, wrote software.

Juan Nunez-Iglesias conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper, wrote software.

François Boulogne conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper, wrote software.

Joshua D Warner conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper, wrote software.

Neil Yager conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper, wrote software.

Emmanuelle Gouillart conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper, wrote software.

Tony Yu conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper, wrote software.

Grant Disclosures

The following grant information was disclosed by the authors:

NIH F30DK098832

Funding

Portions of the research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under award number F30DK098832. Portions of the research were supported by the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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