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Re: lif-files histogram

Posted by Michael Schmid on May 15, 2015; 9:11am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/lif-files-histogram-tp5012839p5012840.html

Hi Stefan,

JPEG is a lossy compression, it modifies the image data.
  http://fiji.sc/IP_Principles#Why_.28lossy.29_JPEGs_should_not_be_used_in_imaging

Michael
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On May 15, 2015, at 10:53, stefan_dillinger wrote:

> Hello,
>
> i have a bunch of -lif files and try to look at the histograms. When i look
> at the histograms directly, they seems to be binned. Only values ending on 0
> or 5 show any values. However when i save individual stacks as .jpg-image
> and reopen it, the histogram is no longer binned, but continuous. I use
> 8-bit images and the bio-format importer in ImageJ to open the images.
>
>
> Does anyone know what the problem could be?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stefan

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