Design and implementation of the Alida framework to ease the development of image analysis algorithms

Solving image analysis problems is not restricted to the pure delineation of algorithms suitable to tackle the task at hand. Rather these also need to be made available to the users promptly and equipped with handy user interfaces to foster progress in the intended field of application. Alida is a software framework to advance the integrated development of algorithms and appropriate user interfaces. It automatically generates user interfaces for implemented algorithms, offers an automatic documentation of analysis procedures, and ships with a graphical editor for designing complex workflows. Alida’s Java implementation is licensed under GPL 3.0 and publicly available at http://www.informatik.uni-halle.de/alida.