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Add stats.mode op to compute modal value

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Description

To my knowledge, there's currently no op available to compute modal values.

The ImageJ 1.x implementation is e.g. [here in `ShortProcessor`](https://github.com/imagej/imagej1/blob/08d498fad5c3ac41b6fd04a6de4bf9a90b2ba8b8/ij/process/ShortStatistics.java#L103-L106)

As a workaround, the `mode` can be computed as in [this gist](https://gist.github.com/imagejan/8bdb771ba653571cc07438c8e24dba79):

```
import net.imglib2.algorithm.stats.Max

histogram = ops.run("histogram", input)
cursor = Max.findMax(histogram)
value = input.firstElement().copy()
histogram.getCenterValue(cursor.getLongPosition(0), value)
```

See also [these](https://forum.image.sc/t/compute-modal-gray-value-in-knime-imagej2/36353?u=imagejan) [two](https://forum.image.sc/t/histogram-from-result-table/11628/7?u=imagejan) forum topics.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked ImageJ 1.x implementation in ShortStatistics.java and the existing histogram and Max.findMax operations referenced in the workaround. Add a stats.mode operation that returns the modal value, then verify it against histogram-based examples and the linked ImageJ behavior.

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java
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computer-vision
Issue type
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