Announcement: MIST Image Stitching Plugin

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Announcement: MIST Image Stitching Plugin

Majurski, Michael Paul (Fed)
Hi Everyone,

We would like to announce the release of our Microscopy Image Stitching Tool (MIST), as a plugin for ImageJ/Fiji.

You can find more details on our website:
https://isg.nist.gov/deepzoomweb/resources/csmet/pages/image_stitching/image_stitching.html

MIST is an open source project hosted on Github:
https://github.com/NIST-ISG/MIST

and is available from our Fiji Update site:
http://sites.imagej.net/NIST-ISG-MIST
or as a zip download from our website.

To add our update site to your copy of Fiji:
0) Open Fiji
1) Select Help >> Update
2) Select "Manage update sites".
3) Select "MIST" checkbox.
4) Select "Close" and "Apply Changes"

The plugin is located in:
Plugins >> Stitching >> MIST

MIST is a stitching algorithm for small and large two dimensional image grid collections. We developed a novel method for optimizing the translations computed by the phase-correlation image alignment method. This new method estimates the microscope stage repeatability from the computed translations of a grid of image tiles. It then optimizes all translation computation using a hill climbing algorithm constrained to a square search area of 4*stage repeatability. This minimizes the maximum uncertainty related to the translation computation for any pair of images.

The plugin contains a scalable hybrid CPU-GPU implementation that processes image sets at near interactive rates. The implementation scales well with both image size and the number of CPU cores and GPU cards in a machine. To enable hybrid execution you must install the CUDA toolkit and have CUDA-enabled NVIDIA GPU card(s). See our Github wiki for more details.

Thanks!
~the NIST ISG team
[hidden email]
https://isg.nist.gov/deepzoomweb/

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