Advice on image analysis in the time domain

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Advice on image analysis in the time domain

Larsen, Henning Engelbrecht
I am evaluating ImageJ and I welcome any hints on the following:

"How useful is ImageJ in analyzing a series of images (a movie) with
respect to the time evolution?"

Typically I want to evaluate how the average intensity value (in gray
scale) of a region evolves from image to image and make a plot of this
evolution.

I would appreciate any advices as to the suitability of ImageJ in that
respect or if this functionality is beyond its primary scope.

Thanks,
henning
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Re: Advice on image analysis in the time domain

Michael Schmid
Hi Henning,

very simple: Select the region, then you get it by Image > Stacks >  
Plot z-Axis Profile

Just have a look at the documentation ...

Michael
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On 9 Feb 2009, at 16:12, Larsen, Henning Engelbrecht wrote:

> I am evaluating ImageJ and I welcome any hints on the following:
>
> "How useful is ImageJ in analyzing a series of images (a movie) with
> respect to the time evolution?"
>
> Typically I want to evaluate how the average intensity value (in gray
> scale) of a region evolves from image to image and make a plot of this
> evolution.
>
> I would appreciate any advices as to the suitability of ImageJ in that
> respect or if this functionality is beyond its primary scope.
>
> Thanks,
> henning
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Re: Advice on image analysis in the time domain

John Oreopoulos
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Import your time series of images as a sequence stack into ImageJ  
(File->Import image sequence).
Draw a region of interest box on the desired location of your image  
on one of the images in the stack.
To plot the average pixel intensity in in the region of interest as a  
function of time, choose the Image->Stacks->Plot z-axis profile  
function.
The graph can be exported as a text file for Excel spread sheets if  
desired.
The same operation can be performed on a single pixel if you choose  
the point-picker tool instead of the region of interest drawing tool.

John Oreopoulos, BSc,
PhD Candidate
University of Toronto
Institute For Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
Centre For Studies in Molecular Imaging


On 9-Feb-09, at 10:12 AM, Larsen, Henning Engelbrecht wrote:

> I am evaluating ImageJ and I welcome any hints on the following:
>
> "How useful is ImageJ in analyzing a series of images (a movie) with
> respect to the time evolution?"
>
> Typically I want to evaluate how the average intensity value (in gray
> scale) of a region evolves from image to image and make a plot of this
> evolution.
>
> I would appreciate any advices as to the suitability of ImageJ in that
> respect or if this functionality is beyond its primary scope.
>
> Thanks,
> henning