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Measure length

Allows measuring the length on the image.

Measure Tool

Measure Tool of MIB is based on Image Measurement Utility written by Jan Neggers, Eindhoven Univeristy of Technology. Using this tool it is possible to perform number of different length measurements and generate intensity profiles that correspond to these measurements. Press here for details.

Line measure

Measures the linear distance between two points. Press and hold left mouse button to draw a line that connects two object. The result will be shown in the pop-up and Matlab main window. Also the length of the measurement is copied to the system clipboard and can be pasted using the Ctrl+V key shortcut. The linear measuring tool can also be called from the toolbar. The pixel sizes are defined in the Dataset parameters.

Free hand measure

Similar to the line measure tool, except that the measured distance can be drawn arbitrarily.

Classifiers

In this section MIB has two classifiers. One is designed for membrane detection but works for other objects as well. The second classifier is based on SLIC superpixels/supervoxels for the classification.

Semi-automatic segmentation

Two methods for automated image segmentation and object separation. Both methods available for 2D and 3D objects.

Object separation

Tools for separation of objects that can be as materials of the current model, the mask or selection layers.

Example of seeded watersheding of cells:

Stereology

The stereology tool of MIB counts number of intersections between materials of the opened model and the grid lines. The spacing between grid lines can be defined in pixels or in the image units. The results of the stereology analysis can be exported to Matlab or Microsoft Excel.

A brief demonstration is available in the following video:
https://youtu.be/5gOiyVNr2vY

To calculate the grid use the Generate button in the Grid options panel. The analysis is started by pressing the Do stereology button.

The include annotations checkbox is selected the Stereology tool also calculates occurances of the annotation labels (Segmentation Panel->Annotations tool)

Important note! When the thickness of the grid is 1 pixel (the grid extra thickness is 0) the grid may not be shown properly at the magnifications that are lower than 100%. To see the grid also at low magnification, increase the extra grid thickness value.

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