ImageJ

What is ImageJ?

ImageJ is a comprehensive open-source platform for scientific image processing, analysis, and visualization. Developed at the National Institutes of Health, ImageJ is a Java-based program that can be executed on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows systems in both 32-bit and 64-bit modes. The application is designed with an open and extensible architecture, allowing users to develop custom plugins and macros using the built-in editor and a Java compiler. This flexibility enables ImageJ to address a wide range of image processing and analysis challenges across diverse research domains

Highlights

• Supports a wide range of image file formats, including 8-bit, 16-bit integer, and 32-bit floating-point images
• Provides extensive image processing capabilities, such as contrast manipulation, edge detection, Fourier analysis, smoothing, and median filtering
• Enables advanced image analysis and measurement functions, including area, mean, standard deviation, and distance calculations for user-selected regions or intensity-thresholded objects
• Supports multidimensional image data through the use of image stacks, allowing users to process related images in a single window
• Offers an open and extensible architecture that allows users to develop custom plugins and macros using the built-in editor and a Java compiler