Posted by
lechristophe on
Apr 18, 2011; 9:43pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Whole-slide-image-analysis-with-ImageJ-tp3684908p3684914.html
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 22:57, Johannes Schindelin <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Deeds, James wrote:
>
> > I just ran across the article cited below describing a plugin for
> > viewing and analyzing scanned whole microscope slides using ImageJ. I
> > would be interested in trying the plugin out or hearing feedback from
> > others who may have used the tool. I understand that support for whole
> > slide image formats is planned for the big ImageJ 2.0 project underway.
> > Perhaps Dr. Zerbe has some useful input for the ImageJdev team.
> >
> > Distributed computing in image analysis using open source frameworks and
> application to image sharpness assessment of histological whole slide images
> > Norman Zerbe, Peter Hufnagl, Karsten Schlüns
> > Diagnostic Pathology 2011, 6(Suppl 1):S16 (30 March 2011)
> >
http://www.diagnosticpathology.org/content/6/S1/S16>
> Sadly, the requirement of other scientific fields for full disclosure of
> methods (including tools) has not made it quite yet into life sciences.
> That is the only reason I can see why the paper describes a plugin that is
> not available publicly.
>
>
Is it a paper or an abstract from a conference proceedings ? I have the
impression that in computer science, conferences proceedings tend to be as
important as journal articles, but still, maybe the authors want to get a
bone fide publication before releasing the plugin ?
That said, this looks like it could be really useful for a lot of people.
Let's hope with Johannes that it will benefit to the whole ImageJ community
by being made available and open source.
Christophe
> Therefore I doubt that you will get much feedback from people who used it.
>
> Unfortunately, this is also the reason why nobody involved in the
> ImageJDev project can form an opinion about, or benefit from, the work
> described in the paper, except by putting an undue burden on the
> developers who are already working very hard on a first beta release of
> ImageJ 2.0.
>
> Maybe you want to contact the corresponding author, and maybe the author
> wants to contribute a bit back to the free software he benefitted from so
> nicely? Maybe there is a chance to avoid reinventing the wheel here? Maybe
> this is a perfect opportunity to stand on each others shoulders?
>
> Ciao,
> Johannes
>
>