Posted by
Herbie on
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Dear listers,
in the sequel to my previous question posted to this list
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Kevin Eliceiri immediately provided some information regarding recent
terminological changes.
Because his reply to my original question didn't make it to the list
yet, and because the further email-exchange happened off-list, I should
like to post my understanding of the situation.
1.
A longstanding fact is that Wayne Rasband conceptualized, implemented
and continuously extends and maintains the scientific image processing
software that he named "ImageJ" nearly 25 years ago.
(I can't remember that he ever termed it differently.)
2.
Only recently however, "ImageJ" appears being used in either a different
or a much wider sense (see the attachments to my previous post).
From Kevin Eliceiri I now learned that here "ImageJ" stands for what he
calls the "ImageJ ecosystem" that includes all "ImageJ elements" such as
"IJ1, IJ2 and FIJI".
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I feel that it is not a good idea to use "ImageJ" as both, a specific
_as well as_ a generic term, and I'm pretty sure that such usage will
puzzle not only me.
Did Wayne Rasband agree with the "extended" meaning and usage of
"ImageJ", the name he gave to the software that he developed?
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Apart from that, I'm surprised that IJ1 (that I understand is Wayne
Rasband's ImageJ) or Fiji, both stand-alone software, should be regarded
as elements of ImageJ.
All opinions welcome...
Herbie
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