BiAlith Home Index PageBiAlith Links to Tools and Sites
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Software for imaging, stats, office applications, VRML viewers, etc. |
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Web and scientific literature search engines, library catalogues, patents, etc. |
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Dictionaries, journal impact factors, standard images, image file formats, IP algorithms & tutorials, maps, periodic table, clip art, etc. |
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Software archives / repositories (including freeware archives) |
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Diagnostic histopathology, histotechnology and other medical sites |
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An online Macromedia Flash-based calculator by metacalc.com. Useful when your system administrator has failed to install even the basic Windows calculator on your PC! |
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Good data-fitting, plotting and interpolation package by OakDale Engineering. Can specify your own functions for fitting and can export interpolation results as a source code function in C for incorporation into your own programs. |
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Extensive Data fitting and plotting package from the University of Manchester, UK. |
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This webpage by John C. Pezzullo has links to many free statistical analysis packages |
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VRML plug-in for web browsers on PC or Mac. You need this (or something like it) if you want to view / manipulate VRML 3D models on your computer. |
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VRML plug-in and player. Alternative to Cosmo. |
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A stand-alone VRML viewer (not a plug-in) by Holger Grahn |
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A set of open source and GNU VRML tools including a viewer |
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Fully functional Office suite from CollabNet Inc (sponsored by Sun Microsystems). Includes Spreadsheet, Presentation package, Word Processor, Drawing package, Database, etc. High degree of compatibility with Microsoft Office - but free of charge. Versions for PC, Mac and Unix are available. |
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The Java Runtime Environment for Windows |
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Image processing program with many plug-ins. Although the main program is for Mac, the Links page has a direction to the Scion website which distributes a PC version and there is also ImageJ (a Java version which is cross-platform) |
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Tools for manual 3D contour and surface reconstruction, registration and visualisation by Dr John Fiala (see also Synapses) |
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This is a very useful program for doing batch conversions or simple batch processing such as re-sizing. I often use it to convert JPEG or TIFF images from scanners and cameras into BMP files as the current version of BiaQIm cannot read JPEG or TIFF images. |
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Large image processing toolkit and graphical environment for PC, Mac & Unix. From Accusoft (replaces the older Khoros Pro). |
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Jeff Poskanzer's original image processing toolkit. Although this original version was designed for Unix systems the distribution contains the source code and a PC version is available via the Graphics Programs and Utilities site link given below. From the MathSource website. |
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Image processing geared around MRI images with 3D support. From the department of Psychology, the University of Nottingham, UK. For Windows 9x/NT, Linux and Solaris. |
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3-D and 2-D image processing and visualisation suite geared to radiology but also accepting ordinary tiff and bmp image stacks. From the NIH Clinical Centre, USA. For Windows 2000/9x/NT. Although free, you must register to download and license requires you to send in regular usage reports. |
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A PC Windows program that allows conversion of binhexed files (Mac email attachments) back in to their native, un-binhexed state. By Pierre Duhem |
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A tool for C programmers to enable them to read, write and process FITS formatted images. From NASA HEASARC. I used the cfitsio library in BiaQIm and the Biaram programs. |
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A source of affordable frame grabbers and cameras for scientists / industry. |
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A source of network software scripts |
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A tool from HCI Data Ltd to convert IP Addresses to domain-names and back |
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General purpose search engines. |
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Internet meta-search engine. For the Pathology section click here |
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The academic version of Google - search the scientific literature |
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Computer problems? Computer helpdesk advice from Lancaster University |
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Electronic Yellow Pages (UK) |
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The National Library of Medicine (USA) PubMed service |
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Online journals and information resources for academics (Ovid and Metapress are quite useful for pathology) |
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Knowledge Access 24hrs/day - an NHS Athens service |
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Access the catalogues of the british library |
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Access the Royal Society of Medicine's library catalogue |
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Access Imperial College's library catalogue |
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Peter Scott's successor to Hytelnet - a key to the catalogs of all libraries around the world. |
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Search for scientific papers. Good for image analysis related topics (esp. high level and theoretical basis). Run by NEC. |
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Search for SPIE conference proceedings and papers. |
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Search for IEEE conference proceedings and papers. |
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UK Patent and Trade Mark database (Now called the Intellectual Property Office) |
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US Patent and Trade Mark database |
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Search the Canadian Patent & trade mark database |
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Journal Citation Reports from the ISI Web of Knowledge UK. Athens password or IP verification required |
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UK National Library for Health: gives links to many NHS sites and information resources |
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Dictionaries English1, English2, English3, Welsh, Computing, Mathemtatics, Medical1, Medical2, Acronym1, Acronym2, Acronym3, Eponyms |
English1) is from Cambridge University Press, English2) is from dictionary.co.uk, English3) Dictionary & Roget's Thesaurus from Lexico Publishing Group, LLC, Welsh) is from BBC Wales, Computing) is a dictionary of computing by Denis Howe of Imperial College London, Mathematics) is a dictionary of mathematics by Eric Weisstein of Wolfram Research Medical1) is an online version of W.B. Saunders Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary by Merck & Co., Inc., Medical2) is a Medical Dictionary by The CancerWEB Project published at the Dept. of Medical Oncology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Acronym1) is an alphabetical list of medical acronyms from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Acronym2) is a medical jargon buster acronym dictionary from Good Hope Hospital NHS Trust UK. Acronym3) is an American site with an acronym search engine from mountain data systems (has ads and popups). Eponyms) lets you look up medical eponymous terms/syndromes |
Free online language translators by WorldLingo Inc. (1) and Systran (2) |
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Online Gray's Anatomy by Bartleby.com |
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Complete online textbook on Digital Signal Processing by Steven W. Smith (California Technical Publishing, San Diego, California) |
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Web-based tutorial from the Pattern Recognition Group at the Department of Applied Physics of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. |
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A good site to find reviews, samples and spec.s on digital cameras, scanners, etc. |
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Details of many image file formats. From the University of Edinburgh Computer Science dept. UK. |
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Details of 3D image and data formats. Paul Bourke's site at The Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Melbourne, Australia. |
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Links to sites offering software, algorithms (incl. convex hull and wavelets), programming reference info., hardware and more. Page authored by Peter Van Osta. |
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Image processing and machine vision topics and resources from The Laboratory for Engineering Man/Machine Systems (LEMS) of Brown University, Rhode Island. |
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Medical (radiology) imaging research and demos at the Imaging Sciences Institute of of Utrecht University (Netherlands). Information on multimodal registration, 3D visualisation, etc. with aplications. |
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NASA AMES Laboratory Super-resolution reconstruction web pages |
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These web pages make available standard images for download which are commonly used in the image processing literature for demonstration of new methods. Site 1 is from John Kominek's BragZone. Site 2 is from the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Sciences, USA. Site 3 is from the University of Rostock (may have pop-up ads). |
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A site linking to many free photos, animations, etc under a wide range of subjects. |
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Online periodic table of elements |
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London tube, train and bus maps, etc. from Transport for London |
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Free calendars and lots more from The Big Project UK. |
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from The Weather Underground, Inc. (default page is London, UK) |
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GMT standard time online + software to sync your PC's time to atomic clock standards |
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Links to computer vision-related algorithms, information and software packages. From Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Sciences, USA. |
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This web site from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, USA) is a good starting point for people interested in using the 3D interactivity provided by VRML models. It has a browser plug-in detector and links to VRML sites and plug-ins. |
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Links to imaging and graphics related software including a PC version of PBMPlus and a 3D-viewer. From the University of Vaasa. |
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Some hand-picked software downloads at my GeoCities home page which are not imaging related. They include sound, MIDI, computing and programming downloads. |
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FreewareHome, Nonags, Freesite, Simtel, TQFreeware, FreewareWeb |
Links to Freeware and Public Domain software for many categories of uses. Not just imaging. TQFreeware also has aWindows DLL repository. Some of these sites may have pop-up ads. |
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Website of a great textbook of pathology with many links to useful websites. |
Dr P. J. Tadrous 2000-2008