Learning Image J

[Elaine Kunze]

You people are going to kill me because I'm sure this has been
answered a million times before (I am new to this list) but.......

Are there any good materials  for learning Image J (tutorials,
handbooks, etc) and figuring out what is available in the program?  I
have gone through the wonderful manual from Tony Collins at Wright
and am ready for the next step.

Can you tell me how to search the archive?

This is a core facility and I think Image J is the way to go but
there is so much to learn.

Elaine Kunze
Flow Cytometry and Imaging
Huck Institutes of the Life Science
319 Life Sciences Building
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
814-863-2762  

[lechristophe]

You can use the mailing list archives at NIH :

https://list.nih.gov/archives/imagej.html

Be careful that messages more than one or two years old could lead you
to do things in a very complicated way, as the software has progressed a
lot since then !

Another nice alternative to browse the archives is to use the Nabble
archive of the mailing list :

http://www.nabble.com/ImageJ-f2618.html

which is more eye-pleasing and also powerfull in terms of displaying
threads, sorting etc...

I don't know how Nabble and the NIH mailing list are interconnected, but
they semm to mirror each other quite well.

Good luck,

Christophe Leterrier

PS/ I really would like to recommand you the book "Digital Image
Processing with Java and Image J" by Wilhelm BURGER and Mark J. BURGE
but it's German only (http://www.imagingbook.com/index.php?id=15).
English version was supposed to come out (Fall 2006) but the mention to
the English translation has been removed from the above website,
although Amazon sells it already
(http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Image-Processing-Wilhelm-Burger/dp/1846283795)
with an edition date of March 2007. Can anyone on this list give news
about this book or clarify if there will be an english version ? That
would be awesome.


Elaine Kunze wrote:

> You people are going to kill me because I'm sure this has been answered
> a million times before (I am new to this list) but.......
>
> Are there any good materials  for learning Image J (tutorials,
> handbooks, etc) and figuring out what is available in the program?  I
> have gone through the wonderful manual from Tony Collins at Wright and
> am ready for the next step.
>
> Can you tell me how to search the archive?
>
> This is a core facility and I think Image J is the way to go but there
> is so much to learn.
>
> Elaine Kunze
> Flow Cytometry and Imaging
> Huck Institutes of the Life Science
> 319 Life Sciences Building
> Penn State University
> University Park, PA 16802
> 814-863-2762

[Mark Burge]

> PS/ I really would like to recommand you the book "Digital Image
> Processing with Java and Image J" by Wilhelm BURGER and Mark J. BURGE
> but it's German only (http://www.imagingbook.com/index.php?id=15).
> English version was supposed to come out (Fall 2006) but the mention to
> the English translation has been removed from the above website,
> although Amazon sells it already
> (
http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Image-Processing-Wilhelm-Burger/dp/1846283795)
> with an edition date of March 2007. Can anyone on this list give news
> about this book or clarify if there will be an english version ? That
> would be awesome.

Colleagues,

The English edition of our book is nearly finished.  We expect to deliver
the camera ready copy to the publisher before the end of the month.  I've
added a spreadsheet, which is updated in real-time based on the SVN archive
of the text, to http://www.imagingbook.com/ - it shows the current status of
every chapter.  As of today, only a single chapter - the whopping 65 page
one on color images - remains to be translated.  The preparation of the
English edition has taken longer because first we waited so that it could be
based on the 2nd German edition, and then the specialized vocabulary
necessitated that we translate it ourselves.

About the English edition, excerpted from the preface, full text at
http://imagingbook.com/index.php?id=95

This book was translated by the authors from the 2nd German edition
(published in 2006), incorporating many enhancements throughout the text.
In addition to the numerous small corrections and improvements which have
been made, our presentation of histogram matching, geometric region
properties based on moments, morphological filters, and interpolation
methods have been completely revised. Also, a number of example programs,
such as the single-pass region labeling and contour finding algorithm have
been rewritten for improved clarity and to take
advantage of the new language features in Java 5.

Mark and Wilhelm

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Dr. Wilhelm Burger, FH Oberosterreich, Hagenberg, Austria
Dr. Mark Burge, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC