Most modern programming languages use garbage collection, but developers have options for how it is implemented and tuned. Get an overview of how garbage collection works in languages such as Java, ...

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Image analysis workflows for Histology increasingly require the correlation and combination of measurements across several whole slide images. Indeed, for multiplexing, as well as multimodal imaging, ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) allows us to identify, into retinal layers, new morphological entities, which can be considered clinical biomarkers of retinal diseases. According to the literature, ...

Sometimes you start something simple and then it just leads to a chain reaction of things. I wanted to write a post about doing state machines in Verilog and target the Lattice iCEstick board that we ...

Quality control and preprocessing of FASTQ files are essential to providing clean data for downstream analysis. Traditionally, a different tool is used for each operation, such as quality control, ...

The National Institute of Health's ImageJ is a powerful, freely available image processing software suite. ImageJ has comprehensive particle analysis algorithms which can be used effectively to count ...

Counting is a common task in pathology, and in bioimage analysis more generally. Note: The Ki67 image used in several of the figures below is from the OpenSlide freely-distributable test data ...