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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

Setting up ImageJ under the Eclipse IDE


Developing simple plugins for ImageJ can be accomplished with the default editor and a little effort. For more complex programs, the Fiji editor provides extra niceties (such as syntax coloring and more informative error messages). But the real breakthrough comes when combining the ImageJ plugin system and an advanced Java IDE. In this section, we will set up Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/) to work with ImageJ. This will allow us to write, debug, and run our plugins in a better way.

Tip

Though we have chosen Eclipse for this section, the basics should be easily translated to other popular development environments, for example, NetBeans.

Note

This section assumes that you already have a working Eclipse installation. If you do not have one, please go to http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-classic-422/junosr2 (the latest Eclipse version at the time of the writing) and follow the installation instructions for your platform.

Let's set up our...