[BioC] Software to find the area of a shape in an image

[Laurent Gautier]

Did you already check the bioconductor package EBImage ?

HTH,


L.




Daniel Brewer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have a series of tissue slices that have tumour within them and we
> would like to quantify the area within each slice that is occupied by
> tumour.  Is there a cheap or free program that will assist in this?
> either by automatically looking for colours or for a user to manual draw
> round a shape and it give you the area?
> 
> Not exactly bioconductor related but the idea is to quantify this and
> then do various bioinformatics on it.  Hope you forgive me.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Dan
>