Table 3 |
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Feature overview of different image analysis software. Comparison of 2 recent published image analysis programs COMSTAT and ISA-3D with PHLIP. Feature information of COMSTAT [24, 26] and ISA-3D [38] was gathered from their reference publications (* data not published, ** data not available). |
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COMSTAT |
ISA-3D |
PHLIP |
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Operating systems |
Linux, Windows |
Windows 2000/XP* |
Linux, OSX, Windows |
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Requirements: |
Matlab license + toolboxes |
Matlab license + toolboxes |
Matlab license only |
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Reference |
[24, 26] |
[54] |
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Availability |
Obtained free upon request |
Must attend workshop (1500$) |
Free downloadable (open source) |
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Multi-channel capability |
No |
No |
Yes |
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GUI |
No |
Yes* |
Yes |
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CLSM support |
- Leica -COMSTAT |
** |
- Leica - COMSTAT - PHLIP-ML (universal converter) |
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Preprocessing |
None |
- Image inversion |
- Image inversion - Carrier adjustment - X- section resolution |
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Automatic thresholding |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes (Otsu) |
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Noise reduction: |
Connected volume filtration |
** |
Connected volume filtration |
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Image analysis parameters: |
- Single channel (10) |
-Single channel (20) |
- Single channel (6) - Two channel (2) - All channel (5) |
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Result output |
- Text format |
- Text format |
- HTML format - XML format (PHLIP-ML) - Text-format |
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Source code availability |
Not available |
Not available |
Available (open source project) |
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Mueller et al. BMC Ecology 2006 6:1 doi:10.1186/1472-6785-6-1 |
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