On 19 March 2014 16:02, Gabriel Landini <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ ImageJ-devel mailing list [email protected] http://imagej.net/mailman/listinfo/imagej-devel
