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Re: Stack operations overhaul?

Posted by Jean-Yves Tinevez on Apr 02, 2014; 2:26pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Stack-operations-overhaul-tp5007162p5007178.html

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to propose some small changes and upgrades to the way ImageJ/Fiji
> manipulates stacks. I'm quite aware that most ImageJ developers are focused
> on higher-level stuff and that the most likely answer will be "it's open
> source, code it yourself", but I'm unfortunately still unable to do it for
> now. I nonetheless think these would make day-to-day use of ImageJ more
> easy, so I ask.
>
> The behavior of various stack tools (Image>Stacks>Tools in Fiji, don't
> know which ones are preset in vanilla ImageJ) is a bit inconsistent at the
> moment, regarding slice labels. I'm talking about these (maintained by
> Jean-Yves): http://fiji.sc/Stack_Manipulation.  "Concatenate" keeps the
> labels form the input stacks, but "Interleave" does not. Would it be
> possible to update the various tools so that they always keep the labels
> when possible?
>
> Also, it would be nice if Colors>Split Channels was able to keep the slice
> labels too, maybe adding a suffix like -Ch00, -Ch01 etc. in the respective
> output stacks, rather than just removing all labels.
>
> Lastly, the way Stacks>Images to Stack deals with images of different
> sizes is great (detecting them and offering to unify canvas size with
> various options). Would it be possible to have the same options in
> File>Import>Image Sequence, in order to be able to import a whole folder
> with varying image sizes the same way?
>


Hi all

I'll look into it. Christophe is right, these are heavily used tools in
most users everyday scientific life. Are the original authors around?
The challenge will be to mavenize them all first.
Please be patient.
cheers
jy

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