TeraStitcher - A tool for fast automatic 3D-stitching of teravoxel-sized microscopy images

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 2 Performance comparison among stitching tools

Data size (MVoxel)	Stacks	Tool	Use of stage coordinates	Memory peak	T _stitching ^a	T _{displ. comp.}	T _merging	T _I/O	T _total
		TeraStitcher	yes	200	4	2	2	7	11
		Fiji	yes	450	45	20	25	8	53
		Fiji	no	1400	99	75	24	3	102
100	2×200 slices	XuvStitch	yes	400	n.a.	4	16	n.a.	20
		XuvStitch	no	950	n.a.	22	16	n.a.	38
		iStitch	no	600	11	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	17
		TeraStitcher	yes	300	8	4	4	12	20
		Fiji	yes	1300	132	62	71	13	145
200	4×200 slices	XuvStitch	yes	500	n.a.	6	28	n.a.	34
		iStitch	no	662	37	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	46
		TeraStitcher	yes	300	35	23	12	32	20
		Fiji	yes	> 3000	n.a.	113	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
600	4×600 slices	XuvStitch	yes	1200	n.a.	18	80	n.a.	34
		iStitch	no	1900	143	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	46

In this table we report a comparison of execution times (in seconds) and memory peaks (in MB) between TeraStitcher and the state-of-the art stitching tools when stitching Megavoxel-sized datasets.
^aTime spent in stitching, net of I/O.

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