As the task of counting objects in brain regions from fluorescent microscopy images is widespread, several toolboxes have been developed for brain-wide object quantification such as the QUINT workflow [@yates2019]. The pipeline relies on QuickNII and VisuAlign [@puchades2019] for the registration and Ilastik [berg2019] for the segmentation. While effective for specific tasks, such as counting punctal objects, its architecture offers limited flexibility, making it hard to take shortcuts during the workflow, and it is not interoperable with other computational neuroanatomical tools, notably reference atlases provided by Brainglobe [@claudi2020]. The latter does provide numerous tools to perform brain-wide cell counting [@tyson2021; @tyson2022] but is primarily designed for native 3D data (such as obtained from Light Sheet imaging post clearing). This approach is however not readily accessible to all laboratories and may show variable efficacy depending on the fluorophore used, the intended resolution, or the targeted brain structures.
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