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Table 1 Comparison of existing similar tools

From: CACTUS: cancer image annotating, calibrating, testing, understanding and sharing in breast cancer histopathology

 

CACTUS

ImageJ

CellProfiler

CellOrganizer

Labelbox

Dataturks

License

Open source, free

Open source, free

Open source, free

Open source, free

Commercially available

Commercially available

Type

Server

Client

Client

Client

Server

Server

Area selection

Manual labeling/automated detection

Polygonal

No

No

Polygonal

Polygonal

Multi-class

Yes

Yes

NA

NA

Yes

Yes

Version history

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

Interactive machine learning

Yes

NA

No

No

NA

NA

Analytics

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

NA

Yes

Quality assurance

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

Collaborative

Yes

No

No

No

NA

Yes

  1. ‘NA’ refers to either a system is not designed for the specific purpose, or well-known examples of this system for a specific purpose were not available when this article was written