Image analysis basics

This chapter covers image processing and image analysis basics. We will introduce what images are and how we can process them.

Installation of required libraries

We will be mostly using the numpy library, scipy, scikit-image and pooch. For visualization, we will make use of matplotlib. You can install them using preferably using conda:

conda install numpy scipy scikit-image matplotlib pooch

Alternatively, installation via pip also works:

pip install numpy scipy scikit-image matplotlib pooch

See also

• Christian Tischer’s Bioimage Analysis Introduction

• iBiology’s Bioimage Analysis 1: The Basics: Getting Started

• Nicolas Condon’s Introduction to image analysis

• Robert Haase’s Introduction to bio-image analysis