Comparison of image processing software

The following table provides a comparison of image processing software.

Functionality	Matlab*[1]	Mathematica[2]	imageJ	FIJI (software)	Population
Extract alpha channel	No	Yes			No
Array labeling	No	Yes			No
Bilateral filtering	No	Yes			No
Intensity thresholding	Yes	Yes			Yes
Color thresholding	Yes	Yes			Yes
Validating binary image	No	Yes			Yes
Blur	No	Yes			Yes
Find uniform borders	No	Yes			Yes
Bottom-hat transform	Yes	Yes			Yes
Box kernel creation	Yes	Yes			Yes
Active contour segmentation	No	Yes			No
Chessboard distance	No	Yes			No
Morphological closing	Yes	Yes			Yes
K-Means clustering	No	Yes			No
Partitioning around medoids	No	Yes			No
Color channel combining	No	Yes			Yes
Convert RGB to Grayscale	Yes	Yes			Yes
Multilevel thresholding	Yes	No			Yes
Convert index to RGB	Yes	No			Yes
Convert to signed int16	Yes	No			Yes
Convert labels to RGB	Yes	Yes			Yes
Image negative	Yes	Yes			Yes
Color quantization	No	Yes			No
Extract color channels	No	Yes			Yes
Majority filtering	No	Yes			No
Blob analysis	Yes	Yes			No
Zero and Zero-crossings	No	Yes			No
Harris-Stephens corners	Yes	Yes			No
Minimum eigenvalue corners	Yes	Yes			No
Harmonic Mean of eigenvalues corners	Yes	Yes			No
Corner detection	Yes	No			No
Zero-crossings	No	Yes			No
Cross matrix creation	Yes	Yes			No
Live image capturing	No	Yes			No
Curvature flow filtering	No	Yes			No
Darken image	No	Yes			No
Remove border components	Yes	Yes			No
Remove small components	Yes	Yes			No
Otsu's size clustering	No	Yes			No
Derivative filtering	No	Yes			Yes
Create diamond matrix	No	Yes			No
Dilate an image	Yes	Yes			Yes
Create disk matrix	No	Yes			No
Distance transformation	Yes	Yes			Yes
Canny edge detector	Yes	Yes			Yes
Sobel edge detector	Yes	Yes			Yes
Shen-Castan edge detector	No	Yes			No
Prewitt edge detector	Yes	No			No
LoG edge detector	Yes	No			No
Robert's edge detector	Yes	No			No
Trace region boundaries	Yes	No			No
Trace object bounday	Yes	No			Yes
Entropy filtering	Yes	Yes			No
Erode an image	Yes	Yes			Yes
Hole filling	Yes	Yes			Yes
Hole filling with ROI	Yes	Yes			Yes
H-min transform	Yes	Yes			No
H-max transform	Yes	Yes			No
Find geometric transform	Yes	Yes			No
Otsu's intensity thresholding	Yes	Yes			No
Entropy minimization thresholding	No	Yes			No
Minimum error thresholding	No	Yes			No
Gaussian filtering	No	Yes			Yes
Gaussian kernel creation	No	Yes			Yes
Binary Geodesic reconstruction	Yes	Yes			Yes
Geodesic reconstruction	Yes	Yes			Yes
Geodesic erosion	No	Yes			Yes
Geometric mean filtering	No	Yes			Yes
Gradient filtering	No	Yes			Yes
Harmanic mean filtering	No	Yes			No
Hit-miss transformation	Yes	Yes			Yes
Create an image	No	Yes			Yes
Image add	Yes	Yes			Yes
Image adjustment	Yes	Yes			No
Find contrast stretch limit	Yes	No			No
Histogram equalization	Yes	No			Yes
Adaptive histogram equalization	Yes	No			Yes
Image registration	No	Yes			No
Arbitrary pixel operation	Yes	Yes			No
Image aspect ratio	No	Yes			No
Create an image montage	Yes	Yes			No
Assemble images	Yes	Yes			No
Live image capture	No	Yes			No
Image channels	No	Yes			No
Pixel value clipping	No	Yes			No
Image color space	No	Yes			Yes
Alpha compositing	Yes	Yes			No
Image convolution	Yes	Yes			Yes
Cooccurrence matrix	Yes	Yes			No
Properties of cooccurrence matrix	Yes	No			No
Image entropy	Yes	No			No
Image correlation	Yes	Yes			No
Image corresponding points	No	Yes			No
Image cropping	Yes	Yes			Yes
Image data	No	Yes			No
Richardson-Lucy deconvolution	Yes	Yes			No
Regularized deconvolution	Yes	Yes			No
Wiener deconvolution	Yes	Yes			No
Dampled least square deconvolution	No	Yes			No
Tikhonov deconvolution	No	Yes			No
Truncated SVD deconvolution	No	Yes			No
Tikhonov-Golub-Kahan deconvolution	No	Yes			No
Blind deconvolution	Yes	Yes			No
Image difference	Yes	Yes			Yes
Charcoal effect	No	Yes			No
Embossing effect	No	Yes			No
Oilpainting effect	No	Yes			No
Solarization effect	No	Yes			No
Motion blur effect	No	Yes			No
Uniform noise effect	Yes	Yes			Yes
Salt & pepper noise effect	Yes	Yes			No
Gaussian noise effect	Yes	Yes			Yes
Poisson noise effect	Yes	Yes			Yes
Speckle noise effect	Yes	Yes			Yes
Arbitrary local filtering	Yes	Yes			No
Image foresting components	No	Yes			No
Forward geometric transform	Yes	Yes			No
Image histogram	Yes	Yes			Yes
Keypoint detection	No	Yes			No
Image levels	No	Yes			No
Hough line detection	Yes	Yes			No
Detecting peaks of Hough transform	Yes	Yes			No
Image multiply	Yes	Yes			No
Image divide	Yes	No			Yes
Image padding	Yes	Yes			No
Image parititioning	No	Yes			Yes
Perspective transform	No	Yes			No
Image validate	No	Yes
Image reflection	No	Yes			No
Image resizing	Yes	Yes			Yes
Image rotation	Yes	Yes			No
Image subtract	Yes	Yes			Yes
Image croping	No	Yes			Yes
Arbitrary geometric transform	Yes	Yes			No
Find output bounds	Yes	No			No
Image trimming	No	Yes			No
Image type	No	Yes			Yes
Get image value	No	Yes			No
Isotropic diffusion inpainting	No	Yes			No
Total variation inpainting	No	Yes			No
Fast marching inpainting	No	Yes			No
Navier-Stokes inpainting	No	Yes			No
Inverse distance transform	No	Yes			No
Inverse radon transform	Yes	Yes			No
Karhunen-Loeve decomposition	No	Yes			No
Decorrelation stretch	Yes	No			No
Kuwahara filtering	No	Yes			No
Laplacian filtering	No	Yes			Yes
Laplacian of Gaussian filtering	No	Yes			Yes
Lighten image	No	Yes			No
List deconvolution	No	Yes			No
Region-of-interest processing	No	Yes			Yes
Regional maxima detection	Yes	Yes			Yes
Extended maxima detection	Yes	Yes			Yes
Maximum filtering	No	Yes			No
Mean filter	No	Yes			Yes
Mean shift	No	Yes			No
Mean shift filtering	No	Yes			No
Median filtering	Yes	Yes			Yes
Regional minima detection	Yes	Yes			Yes
Extended minima detection	Yes	Yes			Yes
Minimum filtering	No	Yes			Yes
Hysteresis thresholding	No	Yes			No
Branch point detection	No	Yes			Yes
Connected component labeling	Yes	Yes			Yes
Nested component labeling	No	Yes			No
Convex component labeling	No	Yes			No
Overlapping convex hull labeling	No	Yes			No
Oerlapping bounding box labeling	No	Yes			No
Bounding disk component labeling	No	Yes			No
Image Euler number	Yes	Yes			Yes
Create graph from image	No	Yes			Yes
Image perimeter	Yes	Yes			Yes
Binary neighborhood operation	Yes	Yes			Yes
Binary morphological operations	Yes	Yes			Yes
Image opening	Yes	Yes			Yes
Perona-Malik diffusion filtering	No	Yes			Yes
Get pixel value	Yes	Yes			No
Principal components transform	No	Yes			No
Morphological pruning	No	Yes			No
Hough transform	Yes	Yes			No
Radon transform	Yes	Yes			No
Create random image	No	Yes			Yes
Range filtering	Yes	Yes			No
Rasterize	No	Yes			No
Region growing segmentation	No	Yes			Yes
Relief shading	No	Yes			No
Alpha blending	No	Yes			No
Resampling methods	Yes	Yes			No
Ridge filtering	No	Yes			No
Blob analysis	No	Yes			No
Add alpha channel	No	Yes			No
Sharen	No	Yes			No
Skeleton transform	No	Yes			Yes
Standard deviation filtering	Yes	Yes			No
OCR	No	Yes			Yes
Morphological thinning	No	Yes			Yes
Medical axis detection	No	Yes			No
Threshold image value	Yes	Yes			Yes
Create thumbnail	No	Yes			No
Top-hat transform	Yes	Yes			Yes
Total variation filtering	No	Yes			No
Meyer watershed	Yes	Yes			Yes
Beucher-Meyer modified watershed	No	Yes			No
Osma-Ruiz rainfall watershed	No	Yes			No
Vincent-Soille watershed immersion	No	Yes			No
Gradient descent watershed	No	Yes			No
Wiener filtering	Yes	Yes			No
Default imaging device	No	Yes
Available imaging devices	No	Yes			No
Quadtree decomposition	Yes	No			No
Quadtree block values	Yes	No			No
Quadtree set block values	Yes	No			No

• Matlab is take to include the Matlab Image Processing Toolbox

References

1. ^ [www.mathworks.co.uk/help/toolbox/images/bqj5b2j.html Matlab image processing toolbox documentation]
2. ^ [reference.wolfram.com Mathematica image processing documentation]