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

[Susan Holmes]

Daniel,
Gemident is available for this type of task,
see http://www.jstatsoft.org/v30/i10
for article and www.gemident.com
for the software and demos, it should automatically
segment your picture.
Best
Susan Holmes

Statistics
Stanford

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, 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
>
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