A newbie question!

[Ian Watt]

Good and gentle people,

I have just downloaded the imageJ program on to my pc laptop to use in conjunction with a miniVID camera attached to a microscope  so I can count hair follicles and fiber diameters (in those follicles) to create reports for breeders of alpacas through an .xls program I have from an Australian university.

I am having HUGE problems in getting the video image from the miniVID program into the imageJ program and then getting that program to do the measurements I need to create the reports.

Can anyone help in any way? ANY help would be better than the floundering I am going through right now - it is not hard to guess that my science background is pretty shallow!!

Many thanks

Ian Watt
Morro Bay  CA

[David Webster]

Can the miniVID program produce image files  (.eg. bmp, .gif, .jpg, etc). If
so, then you manually output a file from the miniVID, then input the file to
imageJ. There may well be a better way using imageJ compatible microscope
software, but I don't know what it is.

You might want to try http://micro-manager.org to see if they have anything
that can help.

If you get a chance, let me know how things turn out.

David Webster

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Ian Watt <[hidden email]>wrote:

> Good and gentle people,
>
> I have just downloaded the imageJ program on to my pc laptop to use in
> conjunction with a miniVID camera attached to a microscope  so I can count
> hair follicles and fiber diameters (in those follicles) to create reports
> for breeders of alpacas through an .xls program I have from an Australian
> university.
>
> I am having HUGE problems in getting the video image from the miniVID
> program into the imageJ program and then getting that program to do the
> measurements I need to create the reports.
>
> Can anyone help in any way? ANY help would be better than the floundering I
> am going through right now - it is not hard to guess that my science
> background is pretty shallow!!
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ian Watt
> Morro Bay  CA
>

[Alan Hewat]

Ian, you may be able to use the ImageJ Video Capture Tool macro or
something similar to integrate short video clips directly from your
camera using the Windows application VirtualDub - I have a short
description of that on
http://www.neutronoptics.com/software.html#VirtualDub which will be
updated with experience. For the rest, just read and experiment with
the ImageJ macros. ImageJ sounds ideal for your project.

I have also used micro-manager as a front-end to JmageJ, but that will
only work for specific cameras (I use it with an Andor EMCCD Luca
camera).

Regards, Alan.

2009/8/11 Ian Watt <[hidden email]>:

> Good and gentle people,
>
> I have just downloaded the imageJ program on to my pc laptop to use in conjunction with a miniVID camera attached to a microscope  so I can count hair follicles and fiber diameters (in those follicles) to create reports for breeders of alpacas through an .xls program I have from an Australian university.
>
> I am having HUGE problems in getting the video image from the miniVID program into the imageJ program and then getting that program to do the measurements I need to create the reports.
>
> Can anyone help in any way? ANY help would be better than the floundering I am going through right now - it is not hard to guess that my science background is pretty shallow!!
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ian Watt
> Morro Bay  CA

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