imea: A Python package for extracting 2D and 3D shape measurements from images

imea is an open source Python package for the extraction of 2D and 3D shape measurements. The current version of imea enables the extraction of 53 different 2D shape measurements as well as 13 different 3D shape measurements with a single function call. Both 2D shapes, represented as 2D binary images, as well as 3D shapes, represented as grayscale images where the grayvalue of each pixel represents its height, can be analyzed automatically. Extracted shape measurements are returned as a pandas dataframe and by specifying the spatial resolution of inserted images, results are automatically converted into metric units for further quantitative analysis.

Citation

If you use imea, please cite our JOSS paper:

@article{Kroell2021,
  doi = {10.21105/joss.03091},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03091},   
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {The Open Journal},
  volume = {6},
  number = {60},
  pages = {3091},
  author = {Nils Kroell},
  title = {imea: A Python package for extracting 2D and 3D shape measurements from images},
  journal = {Journal of Open Source Software}
}