Analyse Menu

Measure
Based on the selection type, calculates and displays either area statistics, line lengths and angles. Area statistics are calculated if there is no selection or if a subregion of the image has been selected using one of the four tools in the tool bar. Calculates line length and angle if a line selection has been created using one of the three line selection tools .
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To export the measurements as a tab-delimited text file, select File/Save As/Measurements from the SalsaJ menu bar or File/Save As from the "Results" window menu bar. Copy the measurements to the clipboard by selecting Edit/Copy All from the "Results" window menu bar. You can also save measurements by right-clicking in the Results window and selecting Save As or Copy All from the popup menu.

The width of the columns in the "Results" window can be adjusted by clicking on and dragging the vertical lines that separate the column headings.

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Clear Results
Erases the results table and resets the measurement counter.

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Photometry
Photometry is the determination of the flux of light emitted by a star. It is calculated by correcting the integrated values of the pixels by the value of the sky background. This value can be related to the star intensity selection as shown. Click once to select a subregion of the image where the photometry will be applied.

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    Clear Photometry Results
       Erase the results table and rests the measurement counter.
      
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Set Scale...
Use this dialog to define the spatial scale of the active image so measurement results can be presented in calibrated units, such as millimeters. Before using this command, use the straight line selection tool to make a line selection that corresponds to known distance. Then, bring up the Set Scale dialog, enter the known distance and unit of measurement, then click OK. SalsaJ will have automatically filled in the Distance in Pixels field based on the length of the line selection.


Set Distance in Pixels to zero to revert to pixel measurements.

Setting Width/Height Ratio to a value other than 1.0 enables support for different horizontal and vertical spatial scales, for example 100 pixels/cm horizontally and 95 pixels/cm vertically. To set the pixel aspect ratio, measure the width and height (in pixels) of a digitized object with a known 1:1 aspect ratio. Enter the measured width (in pixels) in Distance in Pixels. Enter the known width in Known Distance. Then calculate the aspect ratio by dividing the width by the height and enter it in Pixel Aspect Ratio.

When Global is checked, the scale defined in this dialog is used for all images instead of just the active image.

Two examples of how to use the Set Scale command are available: and .


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Histogram
Calculates and displays a histogram of the distribution of gray values in the active image or selection. The x-axis represents the possible gray values and the y-axis shows the number of pixels found for each gray value. The total pixel count is also calculated and displayed, as well as the mean, modal, minimum and maximum gray value.
           

Use the Save or Copy buttons to save the histogram data. Click on Log to display a log-scaled version of the histogram. The number to the right of Value:, which changes as you move the cursor, equals the grayscale value corresponding to the x-axis cursor position and Count: is the number of pixels that have that value.

With RGB images, the histogram is calculated by converting each pixel to grayscale using the formula gray=0.299red+0.587green+0.114blue or the formula gray=(red+green+blue)/3 . With 16-bit images, the range of gray values between the Min and Max values is divided into 256 bins.


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Plot Profile
Displays a two-dimensional graph of the intensities of pixels along a line within the image. The x-axis represents distance along the line and the y-axis is the pixel intensity.

 

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Surface Plot
Displays a three-dimensional graph of the intensities of pixels in a grayscale or pseudo colour image. Creates a stack of plots when the source is a stack. Some plots can be improved by adjusting the contrast of the source image or smoothing it. When plotting a stack, closing the plot stack window will abort the plotting process.



Change the Number of samples to adjust the number of profiles used to generate the plot. Check Draw Wireframe to have the outline each profile drawn in black. Check Shade to generate a shaded plot. The plot will be in colour if the source image uses a colour LUT. Check Draw Axis to have the three axis drawn and labeled. If Source Background is Lighter is checked, lighter areas in the source image represent lower elevations (valleys) while darker areas in the source image represent higher elevations (peaks). If Fill Plot Background with Black is checked, the plot is drawn with a black background.







  
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Radio Spectrum...
Displays a Radio Spectrum as a two-dimensional graph. The file opened using the dialog box must be in the FITS format. The x-axis represents velocity at the opening but  it can be changed into channel, frequency or wavelength  using the SetScale button.
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Fit a baseline (a polynomial of order  1 to  4) to the line-free parts  of spectrum using the Baseline button.

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Use the following dialog to specify  two intervals and  the order of the baseline.  Check  display zero line in blue  to display  the x- axis in blue.

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Subtract the baseline using Subtract Baseline  button.

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Fit a Gaussian profile to a spectral line using the Gaussian fit  button.
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Use this dialog  to specify the interval of fit.  The values of  amplitude, center and width may be specified for the start of the iteration.  Numerical results  are displayed in the Gaussian fit results window;  the  values can be copied and pasted in  a spreadsheet.

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 Optical Spectrum...

Opens a Optical spectrum as a 32-bit image,the spectrum must be text
file. The  format must contain only two columns, the first line of
each column must be the unit of each them. The image's width is
determined by scanning the file and counting the number of  lines;
height is  fixed at 100 pixels.





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Using a  horizontal plot
profile, the x-axis represents the values  of the first 
column and the y-axis  the values of the second column.




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Tools

This submenu provides access to various image analysis plugins.






Save
XY Coordinates...

Writes to a text file the XY coordinates and pixel value of all
non-background pixels in the active image. For grayscale images, writes
three values per line (x, y, and value), separated by spaces. For RGB
images, writes five values per line (x, y, red, green and blue). 


Curve
Fitting...

Construct
and display in a new window the interpolate curve of points with a text
file who contains these XY coordinates.

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ROI
Manager

The ROI (Region of Interest) Manager is a tool for working with
multiple area selections. 























       



Click Add to add the current ROI to the
list. Click Delete to delete the selected ROIs from the list.
Click Open to open an ROI file and add it to the list. Click Open
All to open all the ROI files in a folder and add them to the list.
Click Save to save the selected ROIs as files. Click Measure
to measure the selected ROIs. With a stack, a dialog box allows the
user
to choose between measuring all of the images in the stack or only the
current slice. Click Draw to draw outlines of the selected ROIs
using the current foreground colour and line width. Click Fill
to fill the selected ROIs with the current foreground colour. Click in
the Image/colours window to set the foreground colour. Use Edit/Options/Line
Width to set the line width. 



Scale Bar...

Display a scale bar on the image. This
bar show the width in pixels. 
























 

      
             
   




Calibration
Bar

Creates an RGB copy of the current image and displays a labeled
calibration bar on it.


















            





Change Location to move the calibration bar.
If there is a selection, the bar is initially drawn at the selection.
Change Fill colour to adjust the bar's background colour.
Change Label
colour to adjust the text colour. Change Number of Labels
to
adjust the total number of values displayed. Change Decimal Places
to adjust the number of decimal places present in the labels. Change Font
Size to adjust the labels' font size. Change Zoom Factor to
scale the entire calibration bar. If Bold Text is checked,
labels are drawn bold.










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Calibrate...

Use this dialog box to calibrate an image to a set of density
standards, for example radioactive isotope standards or a calibrated
optical density step tablet. Before using this command, use analyse/Clear
Results to reset the measurement counter and use one of the
selection tools and analyse/Measure to record the mean gray
value
of each of the standards. There is an 
that shows how to calibrate to an optical density step tablet. 


When finished making the measurements, select analyse/Calibrate
to display the Calibrate dialog box. To calibrate the image, enter the
known standard values in the right column, select a curve fitting
method
from the popup menu, enter the unit of measurement, and click OK.
SalsaJ will then display the calibration function. 







If the calibration function is not satisfactory, bring up the
Calibrate dialog box again and select a different curve fitting method.
  


Rodbard is a four parameter general curve fit function proposed by
David Rodbard at NIH. The form of the equation is: 


y = d + (a - d) / (1 + (x/c)^b) 

Selecting Uncalibrated OD from the popup menu causes SalsaJ to
convert gray values to uncalibrated optical density values using the
function
  
Uncalibrated OD = log10(255 / PixelValue) 

You do not need to measure OD standards or enter known OD values to
enable this feature. 



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