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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

The ImageJ plugin API


As you have just seen in the previous example, there is a class that implements several filters, but the exact operation you want to implement will surely have to rely on many other classes. The best resource you can have at hand when coding a new ImageJ plugin is the ImageJ Java API, accessible at http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/developer/api/. This includes a list of all the classes and methods that can be used to develop your plugin.

We understand that this resource can be very arid at the beginning of your coding practices. Remember that reading code written by others is an excellent way of learning once you have a grip on the basics. A large number of plugins offered at http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/plugins/index.html also have their source code available. So, this is a great starting point to extend what you already know about plugin development.

Even though it is not the purpose of this book to offer an exhaustive list of all the classes and the operations they provide, in...