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| author | Selzer, Gabriel J. Rueden, Curtis T. Hiner, Mark C. Evans III, Edward L. Kolb, David Wiedenmann, Marcel Birkhold, Christian Buchholz, Tim-Oliver Helfrich, Stefan Northan, Brian Walter, Alison Schindelin, Johannes Pietzsch, Tobias Saalfeld, Stephan Berthold, Michael R. Eliceiri, Kevin W. |
| author_facet | Selzer, Gabriel J. Rueden, Curtis T. Hiner, Mark C. Evans III, Edward L. Kolb, David Wiedenmann, Marcel Birkhold, Christian Buchholz, Tim-Oliver Helfrich, Stefan Northan, Brian Walter, Alison Schindelin, Johannes Pietzsch, Tobias Saalfeld, Stephan Berthold, Michael R. Eliceiri, Kevin W. |
| contents | Many scientific software platforms provide plugin mechanisms that simplify the integration, deployment, and execution of externally developed functionality. One of the most widely used platforms in the imaging space is Fiji, a popular open-source application for scientific image analysis. Fiji incorporates and builds on the ImageJ and ImageJ2 platforms, which provide a powerful plugin architecture used by thousands of plugins to solve a wide variety of problems. This capability is a major part of Fiji's success, and it has become a widely used biological image analysis tool and a target for new functionality. However, a plugin-based software architecture cannot unify disparate platforms operating on incompatible data structures; interoperability necessitates the creation of adaptation or "bridge" layers to translate data and invoke functionality. As a result, while platforms like Fiji enable a high degree of interconnectivity and extensibility, they were not fundamentally designed to integrate across the many data types, programming languages, and architectural differences of various software platforms.To help address this challenge, we present SciJava Ops, a foundational software library for expressing algorithms as plugins in a unified and extensible way. Continuing the evolution of Fiji's SciJava plugin mechanism, SciJava Ops enables users to harness algorithms from various software platforms within a central execution environment. In addition, SciJava Ops automatically adapts data into the most appropriate structure for each algorithm, allowing users to freely and transparently combine algorithms from otherwise incompatible tools. While SciJava Ops is initially distributed as a Fiji update site, the framework does not require Fiji, ImageJ, or ImageJ2, and would be suitable for integration with additional image analysis platforms. |
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| spellingShingle | SciJava Ops: An Improved Algorithms Framework for Fiji and Beyond Selzer, Gabriel J. Rueden, Curtis T. Hiner, Mark C. Evans III, Edward L. Kolb, David Wiedenmann, Marcel Birkhold, Christian Buchholz, Tim-Oliver Helfrich, Stefan Northan, Brian Walter, Alison Schindelin, Johannes Pietzsch, Tobias Saalfeld, Stephan Berthold, Michael R. Eliceiri, Kevin W. Software Engineering Many scientific software platforms provide plugin mechanisms that simplify the integration, deployment, and execution of externally developed functionality. One of the most widely used platforms in the imaging space is Fiji, a popular open-source application for scientific image analysis. Fiji incorporates and builds on the ImageJ and ImageJ2 platforms, which provide a powerful plugin architecture used by thousands of plugins to solve a wide variety of problems. This capability is a major part of Fiji's success, and it has become a widely used biological image analysis tool and a target for new functionality. However, a plugin-based software architecture cannot unify disparate platforms operating on incompatible data structures; interoperability necessitates the creation of adaptation or "bridge" layers to translate data and invoke functionality. As a result, while platforms like Fiji enable a high degree of interconnectivity and extensibility, they were not fundamentally designed to integrate across the many data types, programming languages, and architectural differences of various software platforms.To help address this challenge, we present SciJava Ops, a foundational software library for expressing algorithms as plugins in a unified and extensible way. Continuing the evolution of Fiji's SciJava plugin mechanism, SciJava Ops enables users to harness algorithms from various software platforms within a central execution environment. In addition, SciJava Ops automatically adapts data into the most appropriate structure for each algorithm, allowing users to freely and transparently combine algorithms from otherwise incompatible tools. While SciJava Ops is initially distributed as a Fiji update site, the framework does not require Fiji, ImageJ, or ImageJ2, and would be suitable for integration with additional image analysis platforms. |
| title | SciJava Ops: An Improved Algorithms Framework for Fiji and Beyond |
| topic | Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12385 |