Partially Loading Massive Multiresolution Images Into ImageJ

Posted by Shawn Mikula-2 on Aug 14, 2007; 6:37pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/area-calculator-tp3698608p3698614.html

hello,
I would like to use ImageJ's analysis routines and plugins on massive
multiresolution images.  However, there is no way to work with these images
in ImageJ, though there are simple Javascript/dHTML routines for working
with them on the web (for example, see
http://brainmaps.org/ajax-viewer.html?path=http://brainmaps.org/HBP2/c.aethiops/AGM1/AGM1-highres/350/&height=78181&width=92160 )
.  I was wondering, is it possible to code an ImageJ plugin that will enable
the importation of these types of massive multiresolution images, so that
for example, they could be partially loaded into ImageJ and analysis
routines run on portions of the images?  It's inefficient to have to rely on
taking screenshots of the web-based viewer and then importing into ImageJ,
and would be much better if these massive multiresolution images could be
opened directly and interactively in ImageJ, and analysis routines and
plugins subsequently applied.  Does anyone have any ideas on whether this is
possible, or how to go about doing it?   I have talked over this idea with
Java programmers (which I am not) and they have not had any success
implementing this idea, and so I'm wondering, is this a limitation of ImageJ
or Java, or is it possible to create a plugin for loading massive
multiresolution images directly into ImageJ, so that the user could
interactively move to the region of interest within the massive image (as
shown in the link above) and apply ImageJ's analysis routines?

thanks.
Shawn


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