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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

Updating the installation


As you can see on the ImageJ News webpage, new versions appear quite regularly. For this book, we installed version 1.46r, but we wanted to catch up with version 1.47q. This latest ImageJ version has new functionalities and bug fixes that may be interesting for the user. Fortunately, ImageJ has an internal update command that will allow you to perform the update process easily, and without any user intervention. Simply run the Help | Update ImageJ... command and you will get the following dialog:

As you can see, it allows us to upgrade to the latest release and to other older versions, and bleeding-edge daily builds that are of no interest here. If you click on OK, your ImageJ installation will be upgraded and then automatically closed. The new version will be used the next time you run it.

Note

When you do it at home, the version number will surely be different. Do not worry! If there is a more recent version, just update to it. It may happen that you already have the most up-to-date version. In that case, you do not need to do anything.