Garryanalyzer: A morphometric workflow and open‐source ImageJ plug‐in for quantitative morphological analysis of Pacific Northwest Quercus leaves
Ziqi Xie, Tan Bahar, Keith Karoly · 2026
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Description
Ziqi Xie, Tan Bahar, and Keith Karoly introduce in 2026 a free software tool that tells two similar oaks apart from leaf shape alone. One oak is native to the Pacific Northwest and central to a rare savanna habitat. The other is a European oak sometimes planted by mistake in restoration work, so a quick check matters.
Leaves from herbarium collections were measured with digital tools, and a statistical model learned which traits separate the species. The new plug-in, built for the widely used ImageJ program, measures leaves on its own and predicts the species. It reached high accuracy on stored specimens and caught every European oak sampled in Portland, though native oaks proved harder.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ziqi Xie, Tan Bahar, Keith Karoly |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49141 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |