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What is BioImageXD?
BioImageXD is a free open source software project for analyzing, processing and visualizing of multi dimensional microscopy images. It's a collaborative project, designed and developed by microscopists, cell biologists and software engineers from the Universities of Jyväskylä and Turku in Finland, Max Planck Institute CBG in Dresden, Germany and collaborators worldwide.
Implementation
BioImageXD is written in Python and C++, using wxPython for the GUI, and leverages the power of the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) for multi dimensional image processing and 3D rendering. BioImageXD also uses the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) for segmentation and other image processing tasks. BioImageXD works on Linux (or theoretically any UNIX-like OS with wxPython, VTK and ITK), Mac OS X 10.6, and Windows XP, Vista and 7. The first Windows beta version of BioImageXD was released on the 9th February of 2006. See the download section for releases of the software.
BioImageXD main features
BioImageXD is a multi-purpose post-processing tool for bioimaging. The software can be used for simple visualization of multi-channel temporal image stacks to complex 3D rendering of multiple channels at once. Animations of 3D renderings can be created using flying paths or keyframes. BioImageXD has basic image adjustment operations and a collection of noise reduction methods. Processing methods are accompanied with a selection of segmentation methods. Segmentation results can be analysed for tens of parameters or used for motion tracking. Other quantitative analysis methods include for instance voxel and object colocalization methods and internalization analysis. All processing and analysis methods can be build into pipelines and run for hundreds of datasets at once in batch processor.
