StackPackBot

A bot to make stacks out of image planes. This can be used to assemble stacks for SpotsInNucleiBot.

A bot to pack a folder of images into stacks (a stack is an image with multiple planes),
using tokens.
For example, if a folder contains the images...

Im1Chan1.tif
Im1Chan2.tif
Im1Chan3.tif
Im2Chan1.tif
Im2Chan2.tif
Im2Chan3.tif

...the bot can help making two stacks with 3 channels each by using the tokens 'Chan1',
'Chan2' and 'Chan3'.

To run, call stackPackBot from Matlab's prompt, and follow the instructions.

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Video tutorial: https://youtu.be/d4-69DEYcAs
Sample data: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vzhvfcld7py79wh/Planes.zip?dl=0

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MatBots are primitive AIs, 'assistants' if you will, that use minimalistic GUI dialogs to guide the user through a data processing pipeline in Matlab.

Isn't that an 'app'? Bots are much more restrictive than apps. Users are, to a greater extent than in an app, guided through the correct steps to perform a task. A bot usually performs a much more limited task than an app.

When possible, bots have a 'headless' mode, which allows them to execute a processing pipeline as a typical Matlab function, either on an image or a folder of images.

For more bots and tools for bio-image analysis, see https://hms-idac.github.io/MatBots/