<s>
Endrov	B-Application
is	O
an	O
open-source	B-Application
plugin	B-Application
architecture	I-Application
aimed	O
for	O
image	B-General_Concept
analysis	I-General_Concept
and	O
data	O
processing	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Being	O
based	O
on	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
it	O
is	O
portable	O
and	O
can	O
both	O
be	O
run	O
locally	O
and	O
as	O
an	O
applet	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
grew	O
out	O
of	O
the	O
need	O
for	O
an	O
advanced	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
software	I-Application
that	O
can	O
cope	O
with	O
complex	O
spatio-temporal	O
image	O
data	O
,	O
mainly	O
obtained	O
from	O
microscopes	O
in	O
biological	O
research	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
lends	O
much	O
of	O
the	O
philosophy	O
from	O
ImageJ	B-Language
but	O
aims	O
to	O
supersede	O
it	O
by	O
having	O
a	O
more	O
modern	O
design	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Endrov	B-Application
grew	O
out	O
of	O
the	O
needs	O
of	O
a	O
software	O
to	O
map	O
the	O
embryogenesis	O
of	O
C.elegans	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Endrov	B-Application
is	O
both	O
a	O
library	O
and	O
an	O
imaging	O
program	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
design	O
has	O
made	O
strong	O
emphasis	O
on	O
separating	O
GUI	O
code	O
from	O
data	O
types	O
,	O
filters	O
and	O
other	O
data	O
processing	O
plugins	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
a	O
program	O
,	O
Endrov	B-Application
can	O
do	O
what	O
you	O
expect	O
from	O
normal	O
image	B-Algorithm
processing	I-Algorithm
software	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ImageJ	B-Language
is	O
older	O
and	O
hence	O
it	O
is	O
more	O
mature	O
and	O
has	O
more	O
plugins	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
limits	O
how	O
much	O
of	O
ImageJ	B-Language
can	O
be	O
changed	O
without	O
breaking	O
backwards-compatibility	O
,	O
which	O
has	O
caused	O
design	O
flaws	O
to	O
accumulate	O
over	O
time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Endrov	B-Application
sacrifices	O
all	O
backwards-compatibility	O
for	O
a	O
clean	O
design	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
ImageJ	B-Language
consists	O
of	O
a	O
core	O
and	O
rather	O
independent	O
plugins	B-Application
,	O
Endrov	B-Application
has	O
few	O
core	O
functions	O
and	O
plenty	O
of	O
plugin-plugin	O
dependencies	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
an	O
example	O
,	O
the	O
GUI	O
is	O
separate	O
from	O
most	O
algorithm	O
plugins	B-Application
;	O
algorithms	O
merely	O
provide	O
descriptions	O
of	O
input	O
and	O
output	O
.	O
</s>
