Image Processing in Python

Authors: Nil Sahin
Research field: Computational Biology and Molecular Genetics
Lesson topic: Image Processing in Python
Lesson content URL: https://github.com/UofTCoders/studyGroup/tree/gh-pages/lessons/python/image-processing

Image Processing in Python

This is an introductory tutorial on image processing using Python packages. We will understand image data types, manipulate and prepare images for analysis such as image segmentation.

In this tutorial, we will learn:

to load images and extract basic statistics
image data types
image preprocessing and manipulation
image segmentation

Useful links for image processing libraries

skimage Sklearn’s image package
OpenCV Open Source Computer Vision library
mahotas Computer Vision in Python

Packages to be installed

numpy, matplotlib, sklearn, scipy
cv2: pip install opencv-python
PIL: pip install PILLOW