Re: convert uint16 image to uint8 image in ImageJ

Posted by Albert Cardona on Dec 06, 2007; 12:41am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/convert-uint16-image-to-uint8-image-in-ImageJ-tp3697849p3697850.html

> In what way is in app. ImageJ performs this task: convert uint16 to uint8
> image? i am specially interesting in intensity rescaling from [0 65535] to
> [0 255].
>  


ImagePlus imp = IJ.getImage()
imp.setProcessor(null, imp.getProcessor().convertToByte(true));


The above is equivalent to the menu command:  Image / type / 8-bit
which you can run as:

IJ.run("8-bit");


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