ImageJ
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 Screenshot of ImageJ |
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| Developer: | Wayne Rasband (NIH) |
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| Latest release: | 1.37s / 19 September 2006 |
| OS: | Any (Java-based) |
| Use: | Image processing |
| License: | Public Domain |
| Website: | ImageJ home |
ImageJ is a public domain, Java-based image processing program developed at the National Institutes of Health. It can be run as an online applet, a downloadable application, or on any computer with a Java 1.1 or later virtual machine. Downloadable distributions are available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X, Linux, and the Sharp Zaurus PDA.
ImageJ can display, edit, analyze, process, save and print 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit images. It can read many image formats including TIFF, PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP, DICOM, FITS, as well as raw formats. ImageJ supports image stacks, a series of images that share a single window, and it is multithreaded, so time-consuming operations such as image file reading can be performed in parallel with other operations. ImageJ can calculate area and pixel value statistics of user-defined selections and intensity thresholded objects. It can measure distances and angles. It can create density histograms and line profile plots. It supports standard image processing functions such as logical and arithmetical operations between images, contrast manipulation, convolution, Fourier analysis, sharpening, smoothing, edge detection and median filtering. It does geometric transformations such as scaling, rotation and flips. The program supports any number of images simultaneously, limited only by available memory.
ImageJ was designed with an open architecture that provides extensibility via Java plugins and recordable macros. Custom acquisition, analysis and processing plugins can be developed using ImageJ's built-in editor and a Java compiler. User-written plugins make it possible to solve almost any image processing or analysis problem.
The source code for ImageJ is freely available - an important issue when working with scientific images.
The author, Wayne Rasband, is at the Research Services Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- ImageJ home
- ImageJ Documentation Wiki
- Review of ImageJ by Forrest Mims III in The Citizen Scientist, the journal of the Society for Amateur Scientists.
[edit] ImageJ Plug-ins
- ImageJ Plugin home
- ImageJ Plugin Project @ Sourceforge.net
- Bio-medical Imaging plugins
- OptiNav plugin set: Aeroacoustics, real time histograms, deconvolutions.
- Large set of plugins by Gabriel Landini
- Albert Cardona's 3D editing plugins.
- Plugins for surface assessment from GCSCA
- TrakEM2: a plugin for morphological data mining, image annotation and 3D modeling.
