# This script allows 2D-registration of slices in a stack according to average coordinates of 2D objects in the slices
# What it needs:
# * an image stack, it may have several channels
# * the slices should be oriented in Z
# * the surface manager should have stored the outlines of the objects, because this script runs only with the resultstable of the surface managers statistics function
# * all surfaces MUST have the same starting and ending slice. Ideally, they are starting and endling slice of the stack
#
# Version 1.0.0, December 8th, 2015
# Author Robert Haase, Scientific Computing Facility, MPI CBG, rhaase@mpi-cbg.de
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