FeatureJ

A Java Package for Image Feature Extraction

Written by Erik Meijering

General Description

FeatureJ is a package of ImageJ plugin classes for the extraction of image features as frequently used in image analysis. The plugins can handle up to five-dimensional (5D) gray-scale images.

A brief description of each of the plugins of the package as in the Panel is provided under the following links:

•	Derivatives	•	Edges	•	Hessian
•	Laplacian	•	Statistics	•	Structure
•	About	•	Options	•	Website

Download

The plugin package can be installed by downloading the following two files to the plugins folder of ImageJ:

> FeatureJ_.jar (version 1.5.0)
> imagescience.jar (version 2.3.0)

By downloading any of the above, you indicate your agreement with the copyright notice and disclaimer below.

The first file contains the actual plugin classes while the latter is a library of support classes (you can download its API if you are interested in using its functionality also for other purposes).

This version requires at least Java 1.5 and ImageJ 1.42b. The program was tested and found to run properly on Windows XP (Service Pack 3). I haven't had the possibility yet to test it on other platforms so I don't guarantee anything there.

The source code of FeatureJ is not available.

Check out the release notes for information on updates.

Copyright Notice and Disclaimer

Permission to use the software and accompanying documentation provided on these pages for educational, research, and not-for-profit purposes, without fee and without a signed licensing agreement, is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice, this paragraph and the following two paragraphs appear in all copies. The copyright holder is free to make upgraded or improved versions of the software available for a fee or commercially only.

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE AND ITS DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF HE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE SOFTWARE AND ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS". THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER HAS NO OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS.

Acknowledgments

FeatureJ was first developed at the Biomedical Imaging Group of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, when I was working on an interactive technique for the tracing and quantification of neurites in fluorescence microscopy images. The algorithms are based largely on well-known methods found in the literature. Nevertheless, writing a general purpose package such as FeatureJ is not completely trivial. Therefore, if you publish results that are based on FeatureJ, I expect you to acknowledge me. Thanks in advance.

Last update on December 3, 2008.