Microscopy Image Browser License

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Developed during 2010-2015 by
Core developer:
Ilya Belevich
Developers:
Merja Joensuu, Darshan Kumar, Helena Vihinen and Eija Jokitalo

Electron Microscopy Unit
Institute of Biotechnology
PO Box 56 (Viikinkaari 9)
00014, University of Helsinki
Finland

GPL license of Microscopy Image Browser

Microscopy Image Browser (MIB) a handy tool for image management
Copyright (c) 2010-2015
Ilya Belevich, Merja Joensuu, Darshan Kumar, Helena Vihinen and Eija Jokitalo
http://mib.helsinki.fi

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the < http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GNU General Public License> as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

See the GNU General Public License for more details .

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

EXTERNAL PACKAGES

Microscopy Image Browser as a bundle is licensed under the GPL, with exceptions for plugins and other components. This section lists the license under which additional components are released. See also the Acknowledgements section

Abbreviations: * FreeBSD, Berkeley Software Distribution, 2-clause license, GPL compatible * GPL, GNU General Public License, version 2 * ModifiedBSD, Berkeley Software Distribution, 3-clause license, GPL compatible * MIT, a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, GPL compatible * ND, no data

Name Author(s) Contact License, Year
Accurate Fast Marching Dirk-Jan Kroon, University of Twente via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2011
ANISODIFF Peter Kovesi web site MIT,
2000-2002
Bio-Formats Melissa Linkert, Curtis Rueden et al. web site GPL,
2002-2013
bwdistsc, 3D Euclidean distance transform for variable data aspect ratio Yuriy Mishchenko, Toros University via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2007-2013
DrawRegionBoundaries Peter Kovesi
Centre for Exploration Targeting, School of Earth and Environment, The University of Western Australia
author's website MIT,
2013
drifty_shifty_deluxe Joshua D. Sugar
Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
via Matlab Exchange Custom,
2014
Export_fig Oliver Woodford and Yair Altman via Matlab Exchange ModifiedBSD,
2014-2015
Extrema functions Carlos Adrian Vargas Aguilera, Universidad de Guadalajara via Matlab Exchange ND,
2006-2007
Fast 3D/2D Region Growing (MEX) Christian Wuerslin, Stanford University via Matlab Exchange ModifiedBSD,
2013-2015
Fast/Robust Template Matching
used in MIB 1.22 and earlier
Dirk-Jan Kroon, University of Twente via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2009-2011
FindJObj - find java handles of Matlab graphic objects Yair Altman via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2007-2013
Hardware accelerated 3D viewer for MATLAB Jean-Yves Tinevez, Institut Pasteur via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2011
Hessian based Frangi Vesselness filter Marc Schrijver and Dirk-Jan Kroon, University of Twente via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2001-2009
Highly portable JSON-input parser Nedialko via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2009
IceImarisConnector Aaron C. Ponti, ETH Zurich web link GPL,
2013
Image Edge Enhancing Coherence Filter Dirk-Jan Kroon, Pascal Getreuer University of Twente via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2009
Image Measurement Utility Jan Neggers, Eindhoven Univeristy of Technology via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2009-2014
ImageViewer Jiro Doke, Mathworks via Matlab Exchange ModifiedBSD,
2010
ImClipboard Jiro Doke, MathWorks via Matlab Exchange ModifiedBSD,
2010
ImGaussian Dirk-Jan Kroon, University of Twente via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2009
Local Normalization Guanglei Xiong at Tsinghua University, Beijing via Matlab Exchange ND,
2005
MatTomo, a part of PEET Boulder Laboratory for 3-D Electron Microscopy of Cells web site GPL,
2006-2010
MAXFLOW/MINCUT algorithm v2.22 Yuri Boykov, University of Western Ontario and Vladimir Kolmogorov, Microsoft research, Cambridge web site GPL,
2001-2014
MAXFLOW/MINCUT Matlab wrapper Michael Rubinstein, Google via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2008
Membrane detection with Random Forest Verena Kaynig, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences web link GPL,
2010
MTOC++ Martin Drohmann (Universität Münster), Daniel Wirtz (Universität Stuttgart) via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2011-2013
NRRD Format File Reader Jeff Mather, the MathWorks, Inc. via Matlab Exchange ModifiedBSD,
2012
Projects:MATLABSlicerExampleModule, to read NRRD format John Melonakos web link GPL,
2012
Random Forest Matlab Abhishek Jaiantilal web link GPL,
2012
Region Adjacency Graph (RAG) David Legland, INRA, France via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2007-2013
RegionProps3 Chaoyuan Yeh via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2014
Render Dirk-Jan Kroon, Focal Machine Vision en Optical Systems via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2008-2011
Render RGB text over RGB or Grayscale Image Davide Di Gloria, Universita di Genova via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2010
SLIC (Simple Linear Iterative Clustering) Radhakrishna Achanta, Appu Shaji, Kevin Smith, Aurelien Lucchi, Pascal Fua, and Sabine Süsstrunk
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
authors' website ModifiedBSD,
2015
STLWRITE Sven Holcombe, University of Michigan via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2008-2015
STRUCT2XML Wouter Falkena, Delft University of Technology via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2010
VIEW3D Torsten Vogel via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
1999
XLSWRITE (improved) Barry Dillon, AON Insurance Brokers via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2010
XML2STRUCT Wouter Falkena, Delft University of Technology via Matlab Exchange FreeBSD,
2010

HOW TO CITE

In November 2015 paper describing Microscopy Image Browser was accepted for publication in PLOS Biology, please cite it whenever referring to the software (the reference will be updated as soon as the article is published):

Microscopy Image Browser: A platform for segmentation and analysis of multidimensional datasets
I. Belevich, M. Joensuu, D. Kumar, H. Vihinen and E. Jokitalo
PLOS Biology, PLoS Biology 2016 Jan 4;14(1):e1002340. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002340

We appreciate if you let us know by email (ilya.belevich -=@=- helsinki.fi) when you cite MIB. This helps us to develop and maintain the program.

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