About the Authors

Lawrence N. Hudson

l.hudson@nhm.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom

Vladimir Blagoderov

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom

Alice Heaton

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom

Pieter Holtzhausen

Affiliation Division of Applied Mathematics, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch 7600, South Africa

Laurence Livermore

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom

Benjamin W. Price

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom

Stéfan van der Walt

Affiliations Division of Applied Mathematics, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch 7600, South Africa, Berkeley Institute for Data Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States of America

Vincent S. Smith

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LNH. Performed the experiments: LNH. Analyzed the data: LNH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VB BWP. Wrote the paper: LNH VB AH PH LL BWP SVDW VSS. Identified the need for the application: VB LL BWP VSS. Wrote the segmentation algorithm and designed and wrote the prototype desktop application: PH SVDW. Worked on the prototype application: AH. Re-engineered the application: LNH Contributed towards the design of the desktop application and workflow tools: LNH VB AH PH LL BWP SVDW VSS.