Re: new version of Fast Filters plugin

Posted by Michael Schmid on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/new-version-of-Fast-Filters-plugin-tp3684966p5013192.html

Hi Louise (?),

as I said, you can simply call
  IJ.run(imp, "Fast_Filters", "filter=minimum x=10 y=10 preprocessing=none offset=0");
and it would do exactly the same as if you run it manually.

Otherwise you can use (for floating point images) e.g.
  ImageProcessor ip = imp.getProcessor();
  int radius = 10;
  int maxThreads = Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors();
  filterFloat(ip, /*type=*/3, radius, /*xDirection=*/true,
            /*extraX=*/0, /*extraY=*/radius, /*maxThreads=*/2);
  filterFloat(ip, /*type=*/3, radius, /*xDirection=*/false,
            /*extraX=*/0, /*extraY=*/0, maxThreads);

So you see, using the filterFloat method is much more cumbersome, and this does not include conversion from/to float yet and does not process all slices of a stack if desired. It will be even worse if you want to subtract the result or you need a 'composite' action such as "eliminate maxima" or "background from maxima".

So for sure, it is much easier to use IJ.run. You can also have variable parameters in it, e.g.

  int radius = 10;
  IJ.run(imp, "Fast_Filters", "filter=minimum x="+radius+" y="+radius+" preprocessing=none offset=0");

By the way, for proper use of the filterFloat method, the constants for 'type' such as MEAN, MIN, MAX should be defined as public in the FastFilters plugin. Seems that I have forgotten to do this; if I find time, I'll correct it.

Michael
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On Jun 16, 2015, at 16:01, justelouise wrote:

> Does that mean I could just directly call the filterFloat method? What I'm
> doing right now is that I'm calling the run method and just defining the
> parameters I've used through ImageJ.
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