PhyCV

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PhyCV is a physics-based public domain package for computer vision recently released. See

https://github.com/JalaliLabUCLA/phycv/blob/main/README.md

I’m now using the VEViD routine to preprocess under-stained H&E histology images as it seems to do a better job recovering colored features than ITK’s color normalization procedure, at least for me. It might be nice to add this to the ITK set of procedures.

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PhyCV is written in Python, so it cannot be incorporated into ITK which is written in C++.

But this library might be interesting to forum members which use ITK via its Python interface.

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There is also a license incompatibility. ITK can be used for anything, while PhyCV does not allow commercial use. From PhyCV license:

The source code provided in the repository is for research and evaluation purposes.

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