scikit-image: Image processing in Python
It provides a tool for researchers, educators, and industry professionals to perform image processing tasks, but it is incremental as it builds on existing open-source principles.
The paper introduces scikit-image, an open-source Python library for image processing, highlighting its use in research, education, and industry applications.
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.