Research Collection Journal Article IQM: An Extensible and Portable Open Source Application for Image and Signal Analysis in Java Author(s): Kainz, Philipp; Mayrhofer-Reinhartshuber, Michael; Ahammer, Helmut Publication Date: 2015-01-22 Permanent Link: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000112394 Originally published in: PLoS ONE 10(1), http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116329 Rights / License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International This page was generated automatically upon download from the ETH Zurich Research Collection. For more information please consult the Terms of use. ETH Library RESEARCH ARTICLE IQM: An Extensible and Portable Open Source Application for Image and Signal Analysis in Java Philipp Kainz, Michael Mayrhofer-Reinhartshuber, Helmut Ahammer* Institute of Biophysics, Center for Physiological Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria *
[email protected] Abstract Image and signal analysis applications are substantial in scientific research. Both open source and commercial packages provide a wide range of functions for image and signal analysis, which are sometimes supported very well by the communities in the correspond- ing fields. Commercial software packages have the major drawback of being expensive and having undisclosed source code, which hampers extending the functionality if there is no plugin interface or similar option available. However, both variants cannot cover all possible OPEN ACCESS use cases and sometimes custom developments are unavoidable, requiring open source Citation: Kainz P, Mayrhofer-Reinhartshuber M, applications. In this paper we describe IQM, a completely free, portable and open source Ahammer H (2015) IQM: An Extensible and Portable Open Source Application for Image and Signal (GNU GPLv3) image and signal analysis application written in pure Java.