Pluvianus: CaImAn Result Browser

A standalone GUI for browsing, editing, and manually verifying CaImAn results.

"Seeing is believing..."

Highlights

• Standalone Qt GUI (example screenshot)
• Spatial and temporal views
• Interactive scatter plot of component metrics
• Visualization of extracted traces alongside original data

License

Pluvianus is distributed under the MIT License. If you use Pluvianus in your work, please cite our associated publication:

Pluvianus: Interactive GUI for Exploration and Quality Control of CaImAn Calcium Imaging Analysis Results. (2026) Katona, G., Dávid, A., Slézia, A., & Kaszás, A. Journal of Open Research Software, 14. https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.623

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Tutorial
• Contributing

Related repositories

• CaImAn – Calcium imaging analysis toolkit with motion correction and source extraction.
• pynapple – Time series analysis for neuroscience data.
• PyQtGraph – Interactive plotting library for scientific data.
• mesmerize-core – Batch management of CaImAn calculations and parameter search. Pluvianus works well alongside mesmerize-core, but it is not a dependency.