This is an open source toolkit protected under the GNU General Public License. All work is copyright 2005-2006 by the author.
The primary motivation for this toolkit is to assist scientists and researchers in extracting quantitative information from angiogenesis and vasculogenesis experiments of in vitro assays. Hopefully, this toolkit will assist in the development of an angiogenesis inhibitor that can be used as an adjunct to existing cancer treatments.
Image processing and analysis is not new. Extracting quantitative information is an exhaustively slow operation when done by hand. To solve this problem, this toolkit performs a variety of image processing and analysis techniques to extract accurate, robust quantitative information from images of vascular networks.
This toolkit is a series of plugins and macros designed for ImageJ, an open source image processing program developed and maintained by Wayne Rasband of the NIH.