awesome-biological-image-analysis
github.com/hallvaaw/awesome-biological-image-analysis ↗A curated list of software, tools, pipelines, plugins etc. for image analysis related to biological questions.
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General image analysis software
- 3D Slicer
Free, open source and multi-platform software package widely used for medical, biomedical, and related imaging research.
- BiaPy
Open source ready-to-use all-in-one library that provides deep-learning workflows for a large variety of bioimage analysis tasks.
- Cell-ACDC
A GUI-based Python framework for segmentation, tracking, cell cycle annotations and quantification of microscopy data.
- CellProfiler
Open-source software helping biologists turn images into cell measurements.
- CellProfiler Analyst
Open-source software for exploring and analyzing large, high-dimensional image-derived data.
- Fiji
A "batteries-included" distribution of ImageJ — a popular, free scientific image processing application.
Publications
- A Hitchhiker's guide through the bio-image analysis software universe
An article presenting a curated guide and glossary of bio-image analysis terms and tools.
- Biological imaging software tools
The steps of biological image analysis and the appropriate tools for each step.
- Data-analysis strategies for image-based cell profiling
In-detail explanations of image analysis pipelines.
- Large-scale image-based screening and profiling of cellular phenotypes
A workflow for phenotype extraction from high throughput imaging experiments.
- Workflow and metrics for image quality control in large-scale high-content screens
Approaches for quality control in high-content imaging screens.
Other
- AICSImageIO
Image reading, metadata conversion, and image writing for nicroscopy images in Python.
- Biobeam
Open source software package that is designed to provide fast methods for in-silico optical experiments with an emphasize on image formation in biological tissues.
- BoneJ
Collection of Fiji/ImageJ plug-ins for skeletal biology.
- CaPTk
Cancer Imaging Phenomics Toolkit: A software platform to perform image analysis and predictive modeling tasks.
- ColiCoords
Python project for analysis of fluorescence microscopy data from rodlike cells.
- CompactionAnalyzer
Python package to quantify the tissue compaction (as a measure of the contractile strength) generated by cells or multicellular spheroids that are embedded in fiber materials.
Plant science
- Aradeepopsis
A versatile, fully open-source pipeline to extract phenotypic measurements from plant images.
- LeafByte
Free and open source mobile app for measuring herbivory quickly and accurately.
- PaCeQuant
An ImageJ-based tool which provides a fully automatic image analysis workflow for PC shape quantification.
- PhenotyperCV
Header-only C++11 library using OpenCV for high-throughput image-based plant phenotyping.
- PlantCV
Open-source image analysis software package targeted for plant phenotyping.
- PlantSeg
Tool for cell instance aware segmentation in densely packed 3D volumetric images.
Image processing and segmentation
- Ark-Analysis
A pipeline toolbox for analyzing multiplexed imaging data.
- AtomAI
PyTorch-based package for deep/machine learning analysis of microscopy data.
- Cellpose
A generalist algorithm for cell and nucleus segmentation.
- CellSAM
A foundation model for cell segmentation trained on a diverse range of cells and data types.
- Cellshape
3D single-cell shape analysis of cancer cells using geometric deep learning.
- CellVit++
A framework for lightweight cell segmentation model training and inference.
Electron and super resolution microscopy
- ASI_MTF
ImageJ macro to calculate the modulation transfer function (MTF) based on a knife edge (or slanted edge) measurement.
- Empanada
Panoptic segmentation algorithms for 2D and 3D electron microscopy images.
- Em-scalebartools
Fiji/ImageJ macros to quickly add a scale bar to an (electron microscopy) image.
- Picasso
A collection of tools for painting super-resolution images.
- SMAP
A modular super-resolution microscopy analysis platform for SMLM data.
- ThunderSTORM
A comprehensive ImageJ plugin for SMLM data analysis and super-resolution imaging.
Neuroscience
- AxonDeepSeg
Segment axon and myelin from microscopy data using deep learning.
- BG-atlasAPI
A lightweight Python module to interact with atlases for systems neuroscience.
- Brainreg
Automated 3D brain registration with support for multiple species and atlases.
- Brainrender
Python package for the visualization of three dimensional neuro-anatomical data.
- CaImAn
Computational toolbox for large scale Calcium Imaging Analysis.
- Cellfinder
Automated 3D cell detection and registration of whole-brain images.
Yeast imaging
- BABY
An image processing pipeline for accurate single-cell growth estimation of budding cells from bright-field stacks.
- htsimaging
Python package for high-throughput single-cell imaging analysis.
- YeastMate
Neural network-assisted segmentation of mating and budding events in S. cerevisiae.
- YeaZ
An interactive tool for segmenting yeast cells using deep learning.
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