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Re: image order

Posted by Wayne Rasband on Nov 18, 2005; 3:08pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/image-order-tp3704419p3704420.html

> I was wondeing how ImageJ (or Java I think) handles file
> names. Usually my files are named in a way that the priority
> is from left to right for the alphabetical order, ie
> 051121.tif is before 051221 and after 051120 (using reversed
> YYMMDD dates as exemples). It works well with windows, but
> with the ImageJ "Import Image Sequence" command the priority
> for alphabetical order seems reversed for the order of the
> slices in the obtained stack... Can somebody tell me how are
> filenames sorted in ImageJ ?

The File>Import>Image Sequence command sorts files names into
alphanumeric order so the above three files would be stored in the
stack in this order:

     051120.tif
     051121.tif
     051221.tif

The exception is DICOM files, which are sorted by the value of the
image number tag.

> Close to this subject, is there a way or a macro to sort a
> stack based on the labels of the slices ?

I am not aware of a plugin or macro that does this.

-wayne