A tool for fast automatic 3D-stitching of teravoxel-sized microscopy images (BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13:316), exploiting multi-level parallelism for stitching very large microscopy images (Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 13, 2019).
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Documentation, help and other info are available on our Github wiki at http://abria.github.io/TeraStitcher/.
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Alessandro Bria (email: [email protected]). Post-doctoral Fellow at University of Cassino (Italy). Main developer.
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Giulio Iannello (email: [email protected]). Full Professor at University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome (italy). Supervisor and co-developer.
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Roberto Valenti (email: [email protected]). Software Developer at University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome (Italy). Co-developer.
- designed for images exceeding the TeraByte size
- fast and reliable 3D stitching based on a multi-MIP approach
- typical memory requirement below 4 GB (8 at most)
- 2D stitching (single slice images) supported
- regular expression based matching for image file names
- data subset selection
- sparse data support
- i/o plugin-based architecture
- stitching of multi-channel images
- support for big tiff files (> 4 GB)
- HDF5-based formats
- parallelization on multi-core platform
- fast alignment computation on NVIDIA GPUs