Developing new tools using the API

Researchers who have programming resources can use MIPAV as an application programming interface ( API) to develop and incorporate new and innovative image processing, registration, and visualizations. MIPAV provides researchers the ability to quickly build a specific program, which can be installed in MIPAV as a plug-in, to quantify and visualize their data.

The MIPAV API provides much flexibility while the software application provides a variety of commonly used features, thus allowing researchers to use MIPAV to meet a variety of research needs.

For more information of how to develop MIPAV plug-ins, refer to Developing Plugin Programs.