TeraStitcher

A tool for fast automatic 3D-stitching of teravoxel-sized microscopy images (BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13:316), exploiting multi-level parallelism for stitching very large microscopy images (Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 13, 2019).

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Documentation, help and other info are available on our Github wiki at http://abria.github.io/TeraStitcher/.

Contributors

• Alessandro Bria (email: a.bria@unicas.it). Post-doctoral Fellow at University of Cassino (Italy). Main developer.

• Giulio Iannello (email: g.iannello@unicampus.it). Full Professor at University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome (italy). Supervisor and co-developer.

• Roberto Valenti (email: r.valenti@unicampus.it). Software Developer at University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome (Italy). Co-developer.

Main features

• designed for images exceeding the TeraByte size
• fast and reliable 3D stitching based on a multi-MIP approach
• typical memory requirement below 4 GB (8 at most)
• 2D stitching (single slice images) supported
• regular expression based matching for image file names
• data subset selection
• sparse data support
• i/o plugin-based architecture
• stitching of multi-channel images
• support for big tiff files (> 4 GB)
• HDF5-based formats
• parallelization on multi-core platform
• fast alignment computation on NVIDIA GPUs