Software:scikit-image

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Short description: Image processing library for Python

scikit-image
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Original author(s)Stéfan van der Walt
Initial releaseAugust 2009; 14 years ago (2009-08)
Written inPython, Cython, and C.
Operating systemLinux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
TypeLibrary for image processing
LicenseBSD License
Websitescikit-image.org

scikit-image (formerly scikits.image) is an open-source image processing library for the Python programming language.[1] It includes algorithms for segmentation, geometric transformations, color space manipulation, analysis, filtering, morphology, feature detection, and more.[2] It is designed to interoperate with the Python numerical and scientific libraries NumPy and SciPy.

Overview

The scikit-image project started as scikits.image, by Stéfan van der Walt. Its name stems from the notion that it is a "SciKit" (SciPy Toolkit), a separately-developed and distributed third-party extension to SciPy.[3] The original codebase was later extensively rewritten by other developers. Of the various scikits, scikit-image as well as scikit-learn were described as "well-maintained and popular" (As of November 2012).[4] Scikit-image has also been active in the Google Summer of Code.[5]

Implementation

scikit-image is largely written in Python, with some core algorithms written in Cython to achieve performance.

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