ImageJ is a Java-based image analysis program extensively used in various scientific research fields. It can be installed on any computer platform, reads the most common image data types, and allows multiple-image operations. It supports standard image processing and analysis functions such as contrast manipulation, sharpening, smoothing, edge detection and median filtering, user-defined area and pixel value statistics calculation, distances and angles measurement, image scaling, and rotation. ImageJ is designed with an open architecture that provides extensibility via user-written plugins, making it possible to solve almost any image processing tasks, user-defined area and pixel value statistics calculation, distances and angles measurement, image scaling and rotation. ImageJ’s open architecture provides extensibility via user-written plugins, making solving almost any image processing tasks possible.

ImageJ open-source software is available via the ImageJ.net website wiki and is free to download and install on any Linux, Mac, or Windows computer. It is also available on the OIT Apps@UT server and the computers in the OIT public computer labs. OIT offers full support for ImageJ to University of Tennessee, Knoxville-area students, faculty, and staff. For assistance, contact the OIT HelpDesk at 865-974-9900. The ImageJ.net web site also offers sources of assistance and information about new features of the latest release of the software to learn on your own.