analyze/nifti as ImagePlus

Posted by pixelhead on Oct 29, 2008; 1:13am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/analyze-nifti-as-ImagePlus-tp3694646.html

Hi -

I'm just starting out to use ImageJ for a project which will primarily leverage the I/O plugins from ImageJ. My program will be storing image data as ImagePlus objects. Right now, I'm looking at reading Analyze and NIFTI files. However, I noticed the Analyze_Reader_Writer plugin doesn't actually return any ImagePlus object.

So I'm wondering:
1) is there a plugin to do this already?
2) if I implement my own plugin, do I just modify the Analyze_Reader class to extend the ImagePlus class?
3) also, since I'm not using the GUI or filters right now, I'm not instantiating a new ImageJ. I'm just using the static IJ.openFile( String ) method. I programmatically set the "plugins.dir" and it seems to work. I just wanted to double check I wasn't doing anything too unkosher.

Thank you,
Daren