A call for bioimaging software usability

By Anne E Carpenter, L. Kamentsky, Kevin W. Eliceiri. 2012

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Bioimaging software developed in a research setting often is not widely used by the scientific community. We suggest that, to maximize both the public's and researchers' investments, usability should be a more highly valued goal. We describe specific characteristics of usability toward which bioimaging software projects should aim.

Subfields: Biophysics, Information Systems and Management, Molecular Biology, Human-Computer Interaction, Computational Biology & Bioinformatics

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Citations in the corpus

TrackMate: An open and extensible platform for single-particle tracking. (2017, methodology): “First, it focuses on usability by providing Life-Science researchers with a turnkey user-friendly tracking solution, fulfilling the recommendations of [15].”
Data-analysis strategies for image-based cell profiling (2017, methodology): “For software with only a graphical user interface, a detailed walkthrough of each step of the workflow can be provided; however, this option is suboptimal.”
Robust Nucleus/Cell Detection and Segmentation in Digital Pathology and Microscopy Images: A Comprehensive Review (2016, background): “More information about popular biomedical imaging software tools can be found in [324]–[326].”
Biological Imaging Software Tools (2012, background): “Usability has often lagged behind, but there is increasing recognition of its value to biomedical research 54 .”
ImageJ2: ImageJ for the next generation of scientific image data (2017, background): “process which we believe is an optimal fit for open scientific inquiry [24].”