cellcanvas / cellcanvas/cellcanvas-prototype
Goals and scope for CellCanvas
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 12
- Forks
- 5
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Description
I am creating this issue to discuss our goals and scope for CellCanvas.
From my perspective, CellCanvas is a software library for building geometric models of intracellular architecture. These models can be used for quantifying and comparing morphology as well as for input into simulations.
The core library contains:
- geometric models for all key intracellular components. This includes meshes (e.g., for membranes), networks of splines (e.g., for filaments), and particles (both position and orientation).
- data models for defining collections of the geometric models
- algorithms for extracting the models from imaging data (e.g., segmentation, pixel embeddings)
- a graphical user interface for extracting and building the models from images
Non-goals:
- provide state-of-the-art performance for all computer vision tasks. I think we should provide solid implementations of some core tasks, but also make it easy for users to import results from other algorithms
- perform simulations. I think we should be able to export the geometries to simulation software easily, but I don't think we need to have any sort of simulation engine in the core.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- computer-vision, desktop, machine-learning
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100