[ImageJ-devel] last release of HistThresh

[Carnë Draug]

On 19 March 2014 16:02, Gabriel Landini <G.Landini at bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 Mar 2014 18:31:58 Barry DeZonia wrote:
>> I am no longer working with the lab that worked with Antti. I have looked
>> at the backups I made when I left and I do not have a copy of Antti's work.
>> Some people in my old lab might have it and they check this mailing list.
>> However I have also CCed Gabriel Landini (affiliated with Fiji) as he
>> worked with me on this a bit and may have made a copy of the code.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Carnë Draug <carandraug at octave.org> wrote:
>> > Hi Barry
>> >
>> > early last year you have contacted Antti Niemistö about his HistThresh
>> > toolbox [1]. This was a Matlab toolbox for image thresholding which he
>> > released under GPLv2+. In the mailing list, he agreed to release it
>> > under BSD for ImageJ2 development.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, it appears that he no longer works at the Tampere
>> > University of Technology and the website for the project has been
>> > taken down. His previous email address has also been cancelled and I
>> > couldn't find his new contact. I tried to use wayback machine to
>> > salvage his project, but the last backup [2] was before the last
>> > release (he made one release prompted by your email which fixed a
>> > couple of bugs in the minimum and maximum likelihood method). I have
>> > made a github repository with the version I found [3]
>> >
>> > I made an Octave port which works fine for me [4] but I know some
>> > Matlab users who would like to use it. Would you happen to have made a
>> > backup of the last release he made?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> > Carnë
>> >
>> > [1] http://imagej.net/pipermail/imagej-devel/2013-February/001404.html
>> > [2]
>> > http://web.archive.org/web/20120628113512/http://www.cs.tut.fi/~ant/histth
>> > resh/ [3] https://github.com/carandraug/histthresh
>> > [4]
>> > https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/image/ci/default/tree/inst/graythresh.m
>
> Hi Barry, Carnë,
> This is the only version I have of the maximum likelihood estimator
> (th_maxlik.m) code from Anti's website. The date of the file in my computer is
> 2/Nov/2004.
> His method uses the th_minimum.m procedure as a first approximation, which in
> turn uses the bimodtest.m and others (also attached), but in my endeavours of
> porting the th_maxlik method in Java for IJ I failed miserably in reproducing
> the results that the code gave for matlab (shown in the pdf attached).
> I spent some time with this particular method trying to resolve what was the
> issue, but I never succeeded, so rather than having a broken method, I left it
> our from the autothreshold plugin.
>
> I hope it is useful.

Thank you all.

I have finally managed to contact the original author, Antti Niemistö,
who sent me all the files. For future reference, I changed the
repository mentioned before [3], using the exact files he sent me,
including both versions. I added a note to the README file about the
ImageJ ports.

Carnë


[3] https://github.com/carandraug/histthresh