"thicken" lines in imageJ ?

[Jan Frank Richter]

hello everybody,
I´m not sure whether this is actually the ringht way to pots questions - if
not, sorry !
I intend to use a binary image representing the skeleton of another - which
is the image I´d like to analyse using the skeleton as a mask. Is it somehow
possible to "thicken" the lines of the skeleton to a defined value in imageJ
(like makeing a 8-pixel broad line out of 1-pixel line) ?

many thanks !
best regards,
JFR

[Gabriel Landini]

On Friday 11 January 2008 16:02:23 Jan Frank Richter wrote:
> hello everybody,
> IŽm not sure whether this is actually the ringht way to pots questions - if
> not, sorry !
> I intend to use a binary image representing the skeleton of another - which
> is the image IŽd like to analyse using the skeleton as a mask. Is it
> somehow possible to "thicken" the lines of the skeleton to a defined value
> in imageJ (like makeing a 8-pixel broad line out of 1-pixel line) ?

Process>Binary>Dilate or Process>Filters>Maximum.


Cheers,

G.

[Jeffrey B. Woodward]

Have you tried the binary->dilate operation
(http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/imagej-documentation-wiki/gui-commands/binary)?

-Woody


Jan Frank Richter wrote:

> hello everybody,
> I´m not sure whether this is actually the ringht way to pots questions - if
> not, sorry !
> I intend to use a binary image representing the skeleton of another - which
> is the image I´d like to analyse using the skeleton as a mask. Is it somehow
> possible to "thicken" the lines of the skeleton to a defined value in imageJ
> (like makeing a 8-pixel broad line out of 1-pixel line) ?
>
> many thanks !
> best regards,
> JFR
>
>
>