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Re: How to add more than 38 counter types in Cell Counter plugin

Posted by Olivier Burri on Mar 03, 2015; 2:27pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/How-to-add-more-than-38-counter-types-in-Cell-Counter-plugin-tp5011798p5011841.html

Thank you Curtis for the GitHub migration! It's always great to know that we can now work on the code more easily when needed!

Regarding this particular question would it not be easier to use the Multipoint tool along with the ROI manager?

You can add as many multipoint ROIs as you want, rename them and so on.

I made (really quickly) an actionBar that allows you to create as many point selections as you want, and lets you count the categories in the end.

The categories can have whatever name you want.

To make it work

1. Install Actiobar, a great tool by Jerome Mutterer. This allows us to make simple buttons for macros.
http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/doku.php?id=plugin:utilities:action_bar:start#downloads

2. Download the code from dropbox here
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9p7elt8t6nn0hn8/Multi_Count.ijm?dl=0

3.Copy the ijm file into plugins/ActionBar folder

Restard ImageJ/Fiji

You will then find the macro under
Plugins->ActionBar->Multi Count

To use it
1. Open your image
2. Click on New category
        You will be prompted to create at least 1 point before clicking OK
        You will be asked for the name or it will be given a default

3. To add more points,
        Select the category in the ROI manager,
        Click to add as many points as you want,  and finally click on
        Update Category

4. If AFTER you Updated there is a point you would like to remove, you can click on
        Delete Last Point

5. To Measure the counts in each category, hit
        Measure and you will have a table with each column that has the name you gave it


You can rename categories anytime after the first step, their names are only used for the columns in when you are launching Measure.

6. To save the ROI set just hit
        Save Rois



You can drag and drop the zip file into ImageJ to reopen the ROIs whenever you need to see them

Right now we cannot pre-import a list of names but this is feasible if you think it could be interesting.

Best

Oli

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