Can I use ImageJ to assign categories and manually count species in an image?

[jphillips]

Hello,
I'm hoping to use ImageJ to sort species of birds from aerial photographs. The pictures have multiple nesting bird species in colonies. I'd like to assign an icon, like a simple dot, over each individual bird, and have it automatically create a table counting the bird and with the species name. For example, in one photograph, if I placed a yellow dot on each black-necked stilt, and a red dot on each American Avocet, the program would keep a tally of the number of each species. Has anyone done something similar or know how I can go about doing this?
Thanks!

[Krs5]

You might want to have a look at the Cell Counter plugin (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/cell-counter.html), I think it would do what you want.

Best wishes

Kees


Dr Ir K.R. Straatman
Senior Experimental Officer
Centre for Core Biotechnology Services
University of Leicester
http://www.le.ac.uk/biochem/microscopy/home.html


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Subject: Can I use ImageJ to assign categories and manually count species in an image?

Hello,
I'm hoping to use ImageJ to sort species of birds from aerial photographs.
The pictures have multiple nesting bird species in colonies. I'd like to assign an icon, like a simple dot, over each individual bird, and have it automatically create a table counting the bird and with the species name.
For example, in one photograph, if I placed a yellow dot on each black-necked stilt, and a red dot on each American Avocet, the program would keep a tally of the number of each species. Has anyone done something similar or know how I can go about doing this?
Thanks!



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