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MaSkel and napari-MaSkel: fast morphological skeleton feature extraction from segmentation masks

Wittmann, S.; Pysch, D.; Uderhardt, S.; Blumenthal, D. B.; Moeller, A.

2026-09-21 bioinformatics
10.64898/2026.09.15.751651 bioRxiv
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Summary: Existing workflows for extracting morphological features from network-like biomedical structures often require several heterogeneous tools, which can limit integration and reproducibility. We present MaSkel and napari-MaSkel, open-source Python tools that provide GUI- and CLI-based workflows for 2D and 3D skeletonization and graph-based feature extraction, using a substantially accelerated implementation of the widely used Lee94 thinning algorithm. Availability and Implementation: MaSkel and napari-MaSkel are open-source Python packages available under the MIT license on PyPI and GitHub: https://github.com/bionetslab/maskel/, https://github.com/bionetslab/napari-maskel/. Documentation: https://bionetslab.github.io/maskel/, https://bionetslab.github.io/napari-maskel/. Benchmarking and validation: https://github.com/bionetslab/maskel-evaluations.

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