About Us
The story and team behind SciPathJ
Our Mission
SciPathJ was created with a simple goal: to make advanced histopathology image analysis accessible to researchers worldwide. We want to eliminate the technical gap needed to quantify histological images.
We created SciPathj to transform into numbers what we can already see by eye, and maybe even what we cannot see...
Partner Institutions
Academic and research institutions supporting this project
Sapienza University of Rome
Rome, Italy
One of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Italy, providing academic support and research environment.
Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa
Madrid, Spain
Molecular biology research center that provided support and resources for the development of SciPathJ.
Project Timeline
Key milestones in the development of SciPathJ
The project was born as a Fiji/ImageJ macro to segment cells using Weka and classify them using Random Forest
Evolved to a plugin called SCHELI (Segmentation and Classification of H&E slides of the Liver) using Stardist and XGBoost
Presented as a Master Thesis at Sapienza University of Rome
GUI added and renamed to SciPathJ as it became usable for slides of other tissues, not only liver
SciPathJ was presented at the Maker Faire Exposition in Rome
Open Source Commitment
SciPathJ is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPLv3), ensuring that it remains free and open for the scientific community. We believe that transparency and collaboration are essential for advancing scientific research.
The entire codebase is available on GitHub, where we welcome contributions, bug reports, and feature requests from the community.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the following for their support:
- The Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa in Madrid for research support
- Sapienza University of Rome for academic guidance
- The open-source community for tools and libraries that made this project possible
- All contributors and testers who helped improve SciPathJ
Get in Touch
Have questions or want to collaborate? We'd love to hear from you.