Microscopy Image Browser Getting Started
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Brief description
Rapid development of multidimensional microscopy imaging techniques during recent years has raised number of questions about effective image processing, visualization and analysis of the obtained datasets. Most universities worldwide provide access to the modern imaging techniques so that descriptive multidimensional datasets of the desired specimen can be fairly easily obtained by any researcher.
After acquisition the datasets have to be analyzed and quite often the detailed analysis is impossible without segmentation (creating of a model) of objects of interest out of the multidimensional data. It seems that the segmentation is the most time consuming part of the image analysis routine. For example, it may take up to a month to properly segment a single electron tomogram. The slowness of the process is caused by two main factors: limited variety of good software tools (even commercial ones) and good user-friendly segmentation algorithms that can be applied to facilitate the modeling. As a result, amount of collected and not properly processed data is much higher than the amount of produced results.
With development of Microscopy Image Browser (MIB) we address this problem and present a open-source software package, which can be used for image processing, analysis, segmentation and visualization of multidimensional datasets. The program is designed to work in both MATLAB environment and as stand-alone instance.
Please note that the compiled version of MIB is limited to academic research and may not have all features available in the MATLAB version.
Starting the program
Please follow the steps described in the Installation section to install the program.
Start Microscopy Image Browser by typing>> mibcommand in the main MATLAB window and refer to the following sections for details of functioning; especially the User Guide section.
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