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Image Processing with ImageJ - Second Edition

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Image Processing with ImageJ - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Advances in image processing have been vital for the scientific and technological communities, making it possible to analyze images in greater detail than ever before. But as images become larger and more complex, advanced processing techniques are required. ImageJ is built for the modern challenges of image processing – it’s one of the key tools in its development, letting you automate basic tasks so you can focus on sophisticated, in depth analysis. This book demonstrates how to put ImageJ into practice. It outlines its key features and demonstrates how to create your own image processing applications using macros and ImageJ plugins. Once you’ve got to grips with the basics of ImageJ, you’ll then discover how to build a number of different image processing solutions. From simple tasks to advanced and automated image processing, you’ll gain confidence with this innovative and powerful tool – however and whatever you are using it for.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Image Processing with ImageJ Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
2
Basic Image Processing with ImageJ
Index

The Application Programming Interface


As with many programming languages, ImageJ has a well-documented Application Programming Interface (API). It describes all of the classes, methods, and fields that are accessible for programming. The API reference can be found on the ImageJ website at http://javadoc.imagej.net/ImageJ1 (ImageJ1.x), http://javadoc.imagej.net/ImageJ (ImageJ2), and http://javadoc.imagej.net/Fiji (Fiji). The API documentation is an efficient way to find classes and methods that can be used to extract relevant information. The classes mentioned in the previous sections can be found using the API page. You can also find a complete list of methods and fields that are available, including the return types of the methods. In the section on setting up an IDE to develop plugins, I will also briefly explain how to set up the generation of Javadoc. Javadoc is a method that parses your source code and extracts specially formatted comments to build up a documentation manual. This can...