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Image Processing with ImageJ

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Image Processing with ImageJ

Overview of this book

Digital image processing is an increasingly important field across a vast array of scientific disciplines. ImageJ's long history and ever-growing user base makes it a perfect candidate for solving daily tasks involving all kinds of image analysis processes. Image Processing with ImageJ is a practical book that will guide you from the most basic analysis techniques to the fine details of implementing new functionalities through the ImageJ plugin system, all of it through the use of examples and practical cases. ImageJ is an excellent public domain imaging analysis platform that can be very easily used for almost all your image processing needs. Image Processing with ImageJ will start by showing you how to open a number of different images, become familiar with the different options, and perform simple analysis operations using the provided image samples. You will also learn how to make modifications through ImageJ filters and how to make local measurements using the selections system. You will also find the instructions necessary to record all the steps you perform so they can be saved and re-run on the same image to ensure analysis reproducibility. Finally, you will get to know some different ImageJ plugins and will learn how to implement your own.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Image Processing with ImageJ
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 1. Getting Started with ImageJ

Welcome to the first chapter of Image Processing with ImageJ. ImageJ is public domain multi-platform software for image analysis written in the Java programming language. It includes predefined functions for a great variety of common tasks and can be extended easily using macros, scripting in several programming languages (including JavaScript and Python), and Java plugins.

In this brief introduction, you will read what ImageJ is, and how to install it, along with some minor configuration tricks. By the end of this chapter, you will have a working ImageJ installation in your system. Contents of this chapter include:

  • A brief description of ImageJ and its main purpose

  • An installation and upgrade guide

  • How to tweak the amount of memory used by ImageJ, in case you are working with big images