Abstract
This paper describes the Datatree module of BioImage Suite, that allows for rapid and flexible reslicing of images based on a user-defined tree structure that organizes image and transformation data as well as electrode localizations, image landmarks, and surface objects. This Datatree tool provides abstracted file loading, allowing for interface with databases, as well as multisubject capabilities, other plugins designed for specific image modalities, and an incr Tcl based API, allowing users to extend its functionality with their own plugins.
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Reviews
David Holmes
Tuesday 5 September 2006
Summary: This paper describes the method of data visualization within the BioImage software. It includes a description of the software tools used to built the Datatree interface as well as applications that one might want to use the datatree tool.
Hypothesis: N/A
Evidence: This submission doesn’t include addition information such as the software, source or applications for each of the examples. Since this is a description of the tool, there is no description of an evaluation/validation of the tool in the context of the applications.
Open Science: Once available, this will be open source software available for evaluation by independent investigators; however, it is now only release with registration as beta software. It will also be important to include the code for the specific examples described in the paper as these examples are the applications where the datatree tool is being used.
Reproducibility: N/A
Use of Open Source Software: This is built upon open source software (with a couple of small exceptions described in the other paper on the bioimage suite).
Open Source Contributions: This will be a useful open source software package when fully available.
Code Quality: Cannot evaluate
Applicability to other problems: The authors already describe several applications of this tool. There are many more applications in the field.
Suggestions for future work: Nothing in particular.
Requests for additional information from authors: Unfortunately, this is a case where the code really needs to be more available. I believe that the authors will eventually get there, but cannot evaluate right now. I hope that the example applications will also be available with the package in order to evaluate their utility as well as the foundation for new applications.
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