Table 1.
Image SXM | ImageJ | WSxM | Gwyddion | Nano-Scope | JPK-SPM | SFMetrics | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Image format compatibility: | |||||||
Bruker-Multimode | Yes | (Yes)* | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
JPK-NanoWizard | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Asylum-MFP 3D | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
ASCII | Yes | (Yes)* | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
TJP(tiff/jpeg/png) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Operating system: | |||||||
OS X | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | (Yes) & |
Windows | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Linux | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | (Yes) & |
Irregular objects analysis: | |||||||
Edge thresholding# | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Skeleton-length | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Freehand-length | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
High-throughput analysis | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
*ImageJ can make use of specific plugins to deal with these features.
&SFMetrics can be run from the scripts in any operating system with MATLAB installed.
#Although ‘edge detection’ is a common feature in many software packages it is usually not adjustable or cannot be used as a binary mask to extract features from the original image.