Some useful plugins

Most of the plugins listed in this section have been obtained from http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/index.html, which at the time of writing hosted about 500 of them. This is consequently only a small subset of those, but we hope our selection allows you to understand how versatile ImageJ can be. Please note that the following sections are not a brief user manual, as even a small set of instructions for each plugin would take a lot of space. Consider them just as a personal compilation to have a taste of what can be accomplished by using different plugins.

LOCI Bio-Formats

As we commented in the second chapter, there are a number of image formats that ImageJ can read natively. There are plugins that allow it to read other formats, and indeed the original installation package includes several of them by default under the plugins/Input-Output folder.

One particular powerful plugin for file input and output operations is the Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation...