Existing plugins

This part documents the functionalities of Mastodon that have been implemented as plugins. They can typically be found in the Plugins submenu. The page below lists them all and links to specific documentation page for each plugin. Information on how to extend Mastodon yourself be creating such plugins can be found in the next part of this documentation.

Core plugins

The following plugins are available with the core of Mastodon.

Importers

Image data

Numerical feature operations

Selection operations

Detection & Tracking

Extra plugins

Track analysis, import and export add-ons (DeepLineage)

A collection of tools that extend Mastodon, e.g.:

  • Additional features for spots and links

  • Additional features for branches

  • Hierarchical clustering of lineage trees

  • Import of segmented images as tracks

  • Export of ellipsoids to segmented images

  • Export of TrackScheme branch view to GraphML

  • Dimensionality reduction (UMAP, PCA, t-SNE)

  • See Deep Lineage.

Track editing, analysis and export add-ons (Tomancak)

A collection of tools that extend Mastodon, e.g.:

  • Spot renaming and transformation

  • Sorting TrackScheme

  • Advanced track editing

  • Find, locate and edit tags

  • Export tree measurements

  • Merge projects

  • Spatial track matching

  • See Tomancak.

Visualization add-ons (Blender-View)