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      <dt>Description</dt>
      <dd>
        ilastik is a simple, user-friendly tool for <b>interactive image classification,
        segmentation and analysis</b>. It is built as a modular software framework, which
        currently has <a href="/documentation/index.html">workflows</a> for automated (supervised) pixel- and object-level classification,
        automated and semi-automated object tracking, semi-automated segmentation
        and object counting without detection.
        Most analysis operations are performed <b>lazily</b>, which enables targeted interactive
        processing of data subvolumes, followed by complete volume analysis in offline batch mode. Using it
        requires no experience in image processing.
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      <dt>Developers</dt>
      <dd>ilastik is developed by the <a href="https://github.com/orgs/ilastik/teams/ilastik-devs/members">
          ilastik team</a> in <a href="https://www.embl.de/research/units/cbb/kreshuk/index.html">Anna Kreshuk's lab</a> at the <a href="https://www.embl.de">European Molecular Biology Laboratory</a>, with partial financial support by the
      <a href="https://www.dfg.de">DFG</a>, the <a href="https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/">Human Brain Project</a> and
      <a href="https://www.sfb1129.de/projects/project-z4/">SFB 1129</a>. Their financial support does not imply
      endorsement of the software. </dd>

      <dt>License</dt>
      <dd> ilastik is distributed under GNU General Public License
	as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
	License, or any later version, with a <a href="/license.html">special
		exception</a> to allow extensions of ilastik not covered under
	the GNU General Public License. See the <a href="/license.html">license
		page</a> for details. </dd>

      <dt>How to cite</dt>
      <dd>The current ilastik version (1.0 and newer) is described in this Nature Methods Perspective:
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          <em>ilastik: interactive machine learning for (bio)image analysis</em><br>
          Stuart Berg, Dominik Kutra, Thorben Kroeger, Christoph N. Straehle, Bernhard X. Kausler,
          Carsten Haubold, Martin Schiegg, Janez Ales, Thorsten Beier, Markus Rudy, Kemal Eren,
          Jaime I Cervantes, Buote Xu, Fynn Beuttenmueller, Adrian Wolny, Chong Zhang, Ullrich Koethe,
          Fred A. Hamprecht & Anna Kreshuk<br>
          in: Nature Methods, (2019)
          <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-019-0582-9">Link at publisher</a>,
          <a href="https://files.ilastik.org/ilastik-ref.bib">BibTex file</a>
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      <dt>Other publications</dt>
      <dd>A list of publications, which use or review ilastik, can be found <a href="/publications.html">here</a>.
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      <dt>Contact</dt>
      <dd>Our contact details can be found <a href="/community.html">here</a>.
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