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Partha Goswami
Hi,
I want to get one information regarding center of mass to get the center of
particles in a image.
to get it I need to do *Image>Adjust>Threshold.
*which makes my gray image to binary.*
*Therefore If I analize the particle to get center of mass It does not give
weighted average grayscale center of mass,
rather gives centroid ( just average of the pixel position). Is there any
procedure so that I can get center of mass of the particles, which
is the brightness-weighted average of the x and y coordinates all pixels in
the image.

Thanks N Regards
Partha Sarathi Goswami
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Re: center of mass

Ben Tupper
On Aug 9, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Partha Goswami wrote:

> Hi,
> I want to get one information regarding center of mass to get the  
> center of
> particles in a image.
> to get it I need to do *Image>Adjust>Threshold.
> *which makes my gray image to binary.*
> *Therefore If I analize the particle to get center of mass It does  
> not give
> weighted average grayscale center of mass,
> rather gives centroid ( just average of the pixel position). Is  
> there any
> procedure so that I can get center of mass of the particles, which
> is the brightness-weighted average of the x and y coordinates all  
> pixels in
> the image.
>


Hi,

The Analyzer does give you the option to retrieve the CM and/or the  
centroid.  But you need to "redirect" the measurements to the  
original greyscale image using the blobs extracted from your binary  
image.  Check the documentation at http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/docs/ 
menus/analyze.html#ap (and see the snippet below).


> Centroid - The center point of the selection. This is the average  
> of the x and y coordinates of all of the pixels in the image or  
> selection. Uses the X and Y Results table headings.
>
> Center of Mass - This is the brightness-weighted average of the x  
> and y coordinates all pixels in the image or selection. Uses the XM  
> and YM headings. These coordinates are the first order spatial  
> moments.

and ...


> Redirect To - The image selected from this popup menu will be used  
> as the target for statistical calculations done by the Measure and  
> Analyze Particles commands. The Redirect To feature allows you to  
> outline a structure on one image and measure the intensity of the  
> corresponding region in another image. With ImageJ 1.35d or later  
> this feature also works with stacks.



Cheers,
Ben



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