Microscopy Image Browser Toolbar

Toolbar under the main menu. The toolbar offers fast access to few most frequently used functions.

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Paste dataset from the system clipboard
Save model
Development shortcut...
Zoom in
1:1
Fit to screen
Zoom out
Fast pan mode
Undo
Redo
Movie player
Make snapshot
XY, ZX, or ZY
Line measure tool
Interpolation type
Type of image rescaling for visualization
Block-mode switch
Show ROI switch
Volume Rendering
Turn on parallel processing
Swap left and right mouse button
Mouse button

Paste dataset from the system clipboard

Pastes image from the system clipboard. This functionality is implemented using IMCLIPBOARD function by Jiro Doke, MathWorks, 2010.

Save model

Saves model to a file in the Matlab format. The file name is not asked, which means that the im_browser will use:

Default template such as Labels_NAME_OF_THE_DATASET.mat
The name that was provided from the Save model as... entry
The name that was obtained during the Load model action The models can be saved also using the Save model command in Menu->Models.

Development shortcut...

Reserved for the development purposes

Zoom in

Increases magnification in 1.5 times.

1:1

Magnifies to 100% magnification.

Fit to screen

Fits the image to the view image panel.

Zoom out

Decreases magnification by 1.5 times.

Fast pan mode

Panning an image means moving the image displayed in the Image View panel. This mode is enabled during pressing of the right mouse button. Normally to pan the image im_browser gets full sized image of the currently shown slice. When the Width/Height of the image is high it results is a small lag. Enabling this mode reduces the lag, but does not allow to see the full image during the panning process.

Undo

Does Undo operation (Ctrl+Z shortcut): restore the previous state of the dataset. The length of the Undo history can be set in the Menu->File->Preferences.

Demonstration of the undo/redo system is available in the following video:
https://youtu.be/PrY3Eo02gU8

Redo

Does Redo operation: re-apply the last undone action.

Movie player

Starts movie player that allows fast overlook of the stack.

Make snapshot

Makes snapshot of the current slice. See more here.

XY, ZX, or ZY

Changes the viewing plane orientation. Default is the XY plane. Some tools may not work if the dataset is not in the XY orientation. There are following key shortcuts that allow to switch the plane of the dataset. As shown on the image below, placing the mouse cursor in the XY view above the intersection of two colored lines and pressing Alt+3 will switch the orientation to the ZY plane.

Alt+'1', switches the view to the XY plane using the image coordinates under the mouse cursor
Alt+'2', switches the view to the ZX plane using the image coordinates under the mouse cursor
Alt+'3', switches the view to the ZY plane using the image coordinates under the mouse cursor

A demonstration is available in the following video:
https://youtu.be/4NXSEkrhnts

Line measure tool

Measures linear distance. See more in the Tools menu.

Interpolation type

Changes type of the interpolator: for shapes, or for lines. See more in the Selection menu.

Type of image rescaling for visualization

Changes type of the image resizing for the visualization: use 'nearest' to see unmodified pixels and 'bicubic' for smooth appearance. Note! the nearest option gives the fastest and bicubic the slowest performance.

A demonstration is available in the following video:
https://youtu.be/N7jFSUOrVCg

Block-mode switch

When enabled the filters will only be applied to the part of the dataset shown on the screen. This speeds up performance and may be good for any kind of tests. Please note: this is not compatible with ROIs, i.e. when the ROIs are shown im_browser will work with the full dataset.

Show ROI switch

Turns ON/OFF visualization of ROIs

Volume Rendering

Render the dataset using the shear-warp transform. Applicable to fairly small datasets. The electron microscopy datasets should be inverted for proper visualization.

A demonstration is available in the following video:
https://youtu.be/rCYSTKF0TsM

Turn on parallel processing

Starts matlab parallel processing routine. Requires the parallel processing toolbox. It seems that it is not really needed, Matlab handles the paralling of processing automatically in many cases.

Swap left and right mouse button

In the default state the left mouse button is responsible for panning the image and the right mouse button for selection, when this button is pressed the mouse button behavior is swapped. These modes can also be set from the Menu->File->Preferences dialog.

Mouse button

Switches the way of zooming and changing the slices of the dataset. When the button is not pressed the mouse wheel changes the magnification and the Q and W buttons change the slices. These modes can also be set from the Menu->File->Preferences dialog.