Research using Image J plugin "Color Inspector 3D"

[Ankit Kapur]

Dear Image J Mailing List,

 

 

 

I am student at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick Canada.

I am working with a team researching a new dilatometer design that would
measure volumetric changes in materials using a digital camera. The idea is
to capture numerous images over a time series as material undergoing thermal
expansion or contraction. We hope that by comparing the relative area of the
material in each picture we can calculate how the volume of the material
varied in relation to time and temperature.

 

 

 

As such a crucial component of our work is automatically determining the
number of pixels the material being studied takes up in an image and then
recording this for each of our 200-300 images. We have found Image J plugin
"Color Inspector 3D" to be very helpful for this part of our work as once we
adjust the brightness and saturation level we can conduct a color reduction
transforming the image into a few distinct regions and can thereby use LUT
to record the pixels of our region of interest, namely the material being
studied.

 

 

 

I am emailing this list however to request advice on the best method to
automate this process. Ideally since we are dealing with such large number
of images we would like it if that once we define a few set parameters the
program should analysis a stack of images under the same parameters and
record the number of pixels for the area/color of interest.

 

 

 

I have read over the documentation available with this program but have not
been able to figure out how to write a macro for it or automate the process
in any way. I was hoping that someone might have an idea as how we could go
about this.

 

 

 

I appreciate your assistance. Thank You

 

 

 

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Ankit Kapur

 

B.Sc Physics; Minor in Mathematics and Chemistry

 

506-224-0025(cellphone)

 

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