BaSiC: A Tool for Background and Shading Correction of Optical Microscopy Images

Description

BaSiC is a tool designed to correct the background and shading of optical microscopy images. It is available both as MATLAB code and as an ImageJ/Fiji plugin.

License

The project is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License. It is available for academic use for free, but for commercial use, you would need to contact the developers.

Installation

For detailed installation instructions, especially regarding the ImageJ/Fiji plugin, refer to the README section on the GitHub page.

Publication

The tool was introduced in a publication in Nature Communication. You can find more about the publication through this DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14836.

Contributors

• Tingying Peng

• Kurt Thorn

• Timm Schroeder

• Lichao Wang

• Fabian J. Theis

• Carsten Marr

• Nassir Navab

Keywords

• Optical Microscopy Images

• ImageJ/Fiji Plugin

• Background and Shading Correction

• MATLAB Code

• Image Processing

• Shading Correction Algorithm

Contact

If you have any issues, suggestions, or contributions, you can open an issue in the GitHub Issues section.

Should you have any specific inquiries regarding BaSiC, please do not hesitate to reach out to Tingying Peng at [tingying.peng@helmholtz-munich.de]