Posted by
Herbie on
Nov 22, 2020; 6:30pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Statistics-on-the-use-of-ImageJ-in-different-disciplines-tp5024212p5024224.html
For whatever reasons I was unable to post this contribution for about six
hours now...
Greetings John,
thanks for chiming in!
First we should perhaps realize that image processing is part of a field
named "signal processing" and as such it is a field of dedicated university
institutes and according study programs. That said, it is an academic
discipline in its own and gaining expertise requires intensive and year-long
studies.
I don't agree that the application of signal processing methods--that
essentially are applied mathematics--to various fields such as the life
sciences or material sciences require specialized approaches. Even within
these fields the requirements are already rather diverse. Think of the large
variety of image acquisition methods in the life sciences from NMR and CT to
light sheet and super-resolution microscopy, etc. On the other hand the just
mentioned methods are used in the material sciences as well.
I think we need to realize that mathematics doesn't care about the objects
we are dealing with, be they living cells in bio-medicine or cellular
domains in metallurgy.
ImageJ is used by very many people who are not in the life sciences and some
of them are very active on this list. Others, such as those working in
astronomy and astrophysics have their own fora.
I can only conjecture that a certain imbalance of contributions on the list
may be due to the greater remoteness of mathematical methods for life
scientist when compared to material scientists, but I may be wrong
especially because I have several friends who studied biology and
mathematics...
Best regards
Herbie
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