napari is a free, open-source and extensible image viewer for arbitrarily complex (‘n-dimensional’) data that is tightly coupled to the Python programming language (see napari.org).

Since it’s analog, it only takes a bit more work with the Python Imaging Library (PIL) to convert that into a 2D image ... to try your hand at this unique programming exercise.

Users can create flowcharts according to their application needs and thus perform automatic image analyses ... Gerst explains. Other programming languages such as Python and R are also supported.

Brown's recommendation: learn Python. Among the host of computer-programming languages that ... manipulating images and carrying out cosmological calculations. QuTip, another Python package ...