ImageJ

Driver Version 1.3.9

The ImageJ driver ProgRes_Cam is an ImageJ plug-in written in Java for the control of all ProgRes® microscope cameras and for capturing single images as well as live image-streams. These will be displayed in true ImageJ image windows and allows the user to apply some methods of the ImageJ tool bar.

ImageJ is a public domain image processing program, inspired by NIH. It runs, either as an online applet or as a downloadable application, on any computer with a Java 1.4 or later virtual machine. Downloadable distributions are available for Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X and Linux. ImageJ was designed with an open architecture that provides extensibility via Java plug-ins. Custom acquisition, analysis and processing plug-ins can be developed using ImageJ's built in editor and Java compiler. User-written plug-ins make it possible to solve almost any image processing or image analysis problem. ImageJ is being developed on Mac OS X using its built in editor and Java compiler, plus the BBEdit editor and the Ant build tool. The source code is freely available. The author, Wayne Rasband (wayne@codon.nih.gov), is at the Research Services Branch, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

ImageJ can display images, edit images, analyze images, process images, save images and print images with 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit as well as read many image formats including TIFF, GIF, JPEG, BMP, DICOM, FITS and "raw". The program supports "stacks", a series of images that share a single window. It is multithreaded, so time-consuming operations such as image file reading can be performed in parallel with other operations. Area and pixel value statistics of user-defined selections can be calculated. Distances and angles can be measured and density histograms and line profile plots can be created. Standard image processing functions such as contrast manipulation, sharpening, smoothing, edge detection and median filtering will be supported. It does geometric transformations such as scaling, rotation and flips. Images can be zoomed up to 32:1 and down to 1:32. All image analysis and image processing functions are available at any magnification factor. The program supports any number of windows (images) simultaneously, limited only by available memory. Spatial calibration is available to provide real world dimensional measurements in units such as millimetre. Density or grey scale calibration is also available.

The integration of the ProgRes® microscope camera control in ImageJ owing to a new driver affords an easy image capture with ProgRes® microscope cameras. That grants a simplification of image analysis and image processing for users of the ImageJ software. There are a lot of increments for several image processing applications. Besides the possibility to set the exposure time manually or automatically the resolution and color reproduction could be selected. Trigger and cooling of the ProgRes® microscope cameras could be activated also, if the cameras are equipped accordingly.

The ImageJ driver supports all ProgRes® Firewire cameras on WIN and MAC operating systems (excepted the ProgRes® C10plus/C3) – as well as all ProgRes® USB cameras on WIN operating systems.

The mentioned driver works only, if Image-J software version 1.43u will be used.

This driver is available for download for all registered end-users.

Attention:
driver works only with Java 32 Bit based ImageJ software! 64 Bit Java is not supported!