Webpic: A flexible web application for collecting distance and count measurements from images.

ABSTRACT: Despite increasing ability to store and analyze large amounts of data for organismal and ecological studies, the process of collecting distance and count measurements from images has largely remained time consuming and error-prone, particularly for tasks for which automation is difficult or impossible. Improving the efficiency of these tasks, which allows for more high quality data to be collected in a shorter amount of time, is therefore a high priority. The open-source web application, webpic, implements common web languages and widely available libraries and productivity apps to streamline the process of collecting distance and count measurements from images. In this paper, I introduce the framework of webpic and demonstrate one readily available feature of this application, linear meas

SUBMITTER: Chang LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5880364 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature