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Dr. Jimena Berni
> I would suggest a fractal analysis. The fractal dimension of the
> treated
> images may have higher values.
>
> Best wishes,
> Helmut
>
> 2011/7/8 Johannes Schindelin <
[hidden email]>
>
>> Hi Jimena,
>>
>> On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Jimena Berni wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to analyze the track of two different animals (image
>>> attached). One of them, the treatment is going kind of in circles
>>> while
>>> the other perform straight lines and then turns.
>>>
>>> I thought i could draw a segmented line over the track and get the
>>> value
>>> of angle between two adjacent points. I don't find a way of doing
>>> this.
>>> I thought that another alternative would be to get the XY
>>> information of
>>> the line. Is there a way of doing that?
>>
>> Of course that is one way to do it, although the analysis would
>> definitely require programming a macro.
>>
>> But if all you seek is to have a robust discrimination between
>> treated vs
>> untreated animals, I think it might be better to measure enclosed
>> area vs
>> average intensity. At least to me it looks like the "cuddled" paths
>> cover
>> a smaller area, so the average brightness in that area is much
>> higher than
>> in the other case.
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Johannes
>>