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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

Some useful plugins


Most of the plugins listed in this section have been obtained from http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/index.html, which at the time of writing hosted about 500 of them. This is consequently only a small subset of those, but we hope our selection allows you to understand how versatile ImageJ can be. Please note that the following sections are not a brief user manual, as even a small set of instructions for each plugin would take a lot of space. Consider them just as a personal compilation to have a taste of what can be accomplished by using different plugins.

LOCI Bio-Formats

As we commented in the second chapter, there are a number of image formats that ImageJ can read natively. There are plugins that allow it to read other formats, and indeed the original installation package includes several of them by default under the plugins/Input-Output folder.

One particular powerful plugin for file input and output operations is the Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation...