Hi YXDragon and Stefan:

I am a process engineer in semiconductor industry. I wrote a SEM/STEM/TEM analysis software with UI based on scikit-image, pyqt, and others, using the concept of plugins. I agree with Stefan's point that there is a market for this. However my experience is that the images from scientific instruments like SEM/STEM/TEM/MRI are quite different with images from cameras. And people in semiconductor industry and people working on biology have very different needs. I feel like the focus right now is mostly on the biology community.

I am very happy to hear that we can possibly build a web-based UI for image analysis now. It will integrate the image analysis and further data analysis greatly, which is the our future direction. It would be great if scikit-image could include some demo of it in the future, just like the "viewer" package skimage has right now.

Best,

Dongyao

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Stefan van der Walt <stefanv@berkeley.edu> wrote:

Hi, YXDragon

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017, at 01:46, imagepy@sina.com wrote:

Now I think It is time to build a project named skimg-plgs. And I had wrote some presentative demo with friendly interact. these demo are all from the gallery, (interactive snake contours, interactive watershed...) I want to build a full plugin system and tool set covering scikit-image's every module. Then we can build a large user community like ImageJ, not only programers but also the doctors and biologists.

Given the immense success of projects such as ImageJ, and based on feedback I've received from practitioners in microscopy, there is certainly a market for a GUI built on top of scikit-image.

I don't personally have the time to contribute to such an effort at the moment (my focus is probably best spent keeping skimage on track!), but I am appreciative of the work you are doing, and encourage you to continue.

I may have mentioned this to you before, but I am not sure about the long-term viability of WXPython. I heard that they have a Phoenix rewrite underway, but looking at the latest PyPI release (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wxPython/4.0.0a1) they also only support Windows and MacOS.

With a Jupyter Lab release imminent, I would strongly consider using the web as UI, and building components that integrate with that project. I can put you in contact with their developers, if you like.

Best regards

Stéfan

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