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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

Sharing your plugin


When you have finished implementing all the routines and completed (extensive) testing, you are ready to distribute your plugin to the world. Currently, there are several options available to distribute your plugin, ranging from sending it using e-mail to an automated update mechanism in ImageJ. Here, I will discuss the latter option, which has some great benefits that makes it very user-friendly and efficient. Fiji, and ImageJ2 have a system that allows you to set a website as a source for your plugin. This website will be checked to see whether there is a newer version available, and if so, it will be automatically updated. The only thing your users have to do is add that site to their list of update sites to install and update your plugin(s). The following sections will describe how to setup this site, and how users can add the site to ImageJ (ImageJ2 and Fiji, specifically).

Creating a site

To create a site, you have different options available: you can host your own...