The Functionality looks good, but it appears focussed on medical
imagery. The image registration has more options that we can
offer automatically.
The reference documentation is a bit iffy, but seems attractive and
clear for some of the plug-ins and overview material. The FAq is
somewhat short and doesn't address licensing.
The display stuff doesn't look as good as GAIA, although there are
common functions, obviously geared up the medical images rather than
astronomical. Quite like the spline fits polygons for isolating
features, the arithmetic pasting, and 3-D slices. We could offer many
moreimage-processing options in our display tools interfacing to KAPPA
etc.
The plugins use ImageJ own macro language rather than reusing an
industry standard.
It's not purely public domain, as for example in the warping
registration, you can't redistribute without the authors' consent.
This kind of community effort is what I'd expected to have found for 3-D
graphics and statistics.
It's something we may wish to refer to, and possibly reuse parts.
However, we'd need to integrate with our existing applications
and libraries, maintain a common LaF etc.
Thanks Steve for bringing ImageJ to our attention.
Malcolm
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