scikit-image: Image processing in Python

TL;DR

scikit-image is an open-source Python library offering a wide range of image processing algorithms, supporting research, education, and industry, with real-world applications demonstrated.

Contribution

This paper introduces scikit-image, emphasizing its open-source nature, comprehensive API, and practical applications in various fields.

Findings

Open source facilitates collaboration and development.

scikit-image supports diverse real-world applications.

The library provides a well-documented API for image processing.

Abstract

scikit-image is an image processing library that implements algorithms and utilities for use in research, education and industry applications. It is released under the liberal "Modified BSD" open source license, provides a well-documented API in the Python programming language, and is developed by an active, international team of collaborators. In this paper we highlight the advantages of open source to achieve the goals of the scikit-image library, and we showcase several real-world image processing applications that use scikit-image.