ROXAS X - A next-generation version of the image analysis tool for quantifying xylem anatomy

Projektleitung

Georg von Arx

Stellvertretung

Loïc Schneider

Projektmitarbeitende

Loïc Schneider
Georg von Arx

Wood anatomy provides unprecedented information about present and past plant-environment interactions in high resolution. Among the leading tools for quantifying xylem cell anatomical features is ROXAS (www.wsl.ch/roxas). ROXAS is written in Visual Basic 6.0 and depends on the image-analysis software Image-Pro Plus as a workhorse for general functionality. Both are approaching the end of their life cycles and are increasingly becoming a bottleneck. The aim of this project is to replace the current workhorse with up-to-date open-source tools, base wood cell detection on more powerful machine learning algorithms, and migrate the Visual Basic 6.0 code to a future-oriented programming language.