ImageJ

Image processing and analysis

Science
Arch Linux (recommended) Debian Ubuntu Fedora openSUSE Nixpkgs

About

It can display, edit, analyze, process, save and print 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit images. It can read many image formats including TIFF, GIF, JPEG, BMP, DICOM, FITS and "raw". It supports "stacks", a series of images that share a single window. It can calculate area and pixel value statistics of user-defined selections. It can measure distances and angles. It can create density histograms and line profile plots. It supports standard image processing functions such as contrast manipulation, sharpening, smoothing, edge detection and median filtering. Spatial calibration is available to provide real world dimensional measurements in units such as millimeters. Density or gray scale calibration is also available. ImageJ is developed by Wayne Rasband (wayne@codon.nih.gov), is at the Research Services Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

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License
LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain

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Arch Linux · Debian · Ubuntu · Fedora · openSUSE · Nixpkgs

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SourceNameVersionBuilt byLicenseDescription
AURimagej2:1.54p-1—Public DomainImage manipulation software for scientists
Debianimagej1.54g-1Distribution build—Image processing program with a focus on microscopy images
Ubuntuimagej1.54g-1build1Distribution build—Image processing program with a focus on microscopy images
Fedoraimagej1.54rDistribution buildLicenseRef-Fedora-Public-DomainImage Processing and Analysis in Java
Nixpkgsimagej153Distribution buildPublic DomainImage processing and analysis in Java
openSUSEimagej1.53uDistribution buildSUSE-Public-DomainA Java image processing program
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Add-ons

Plugins (2)
  • imagej-plugin-figurecalibration — ImageJ plugin for data extraction from plots only available as images (AUR)
  • imagej-plugin-morpholibj — Collection of mathematical morphology methods and plugins for ImageJ (AUR)