Introduction to scikit-xray¶

Scikit-xray provides simple functions useful for X-ray science, conveniently grouped by technique. It includes domain-specific functionality written for this package and also relevant functions from other scientific packages such as scikit-image. Thus, it is a complete solution, curating useful tools from the scientific Python community and presenting them in a context for X-ray science.

There are several ways to use scikit-image. Users comfortable with Python, IPython, or the IPython notebook can use it like any other package. Users who prefer drag-and-drop software can access all the tools in scikit-image through vistrails.

Scikit-xray functions accept and return standard Python and numpy datatypes, so they play nicely with other packages from the scientific Python community. Further, the modular design of scikit-xray allows its components to be easily reused in way not envisioned by the authors.