1.1 Download Sites for NIH & Scion Image, JAVA Image

May 25, 2004: Contents
Downloading the Applications
(software, images, manuals)

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NIH Image

NIH Image, written for the Mac and distributed by Wayne Rasband at NIH, Bethesda MD.
Scion Image for Windows, Beta 3b, was an almost exact equivalent. It was distributed by Scion Corp., Frederick MD, but to my knowledge is now no longer available.

NIH Image (Macintosh only)

NIH Image site: http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/

This is an animated gif downloaded from the NIH Image Home page. It illustrates many image processing functions available in Image.

Go to the download page, select approprate files, follow instructions.

Sample images, additional macros, source code, plug-ins, documentation, and special versions of Image are available from this page.

Scion Image No Longer Available

Scion Image (PC and Mac)

Scion Corp: (web site no longer available).

Image/J ( Image / Java ... PC, Mac, Linux, ... )

NIH Image and Scion Image are now static. Image/J is where the development is taking place.

Image/J now has all of the image processing functions of NIH Image , and supports more types of images: 8-bit grayscale, 8-bit indexed color, 16-bit signed integer, 32-bit floating-point and 32-bit RGB color.

Processing commands now often work on color as well as gray scale images. Process -> Sharpen, for example works on a RGB color image in IMAGEJ.

A gamma adjustment is available: Process -> Math -> Gamma... which was not available in NIH Image.

Image/J runs as a standalone application on both the Mac and PC. The interface has some differences from the NIH Image, for example the threshold function is now under Image -> Adjust -> Threshold, rather than in the vertical slider bar that is always visible in NIH Image.. The ImageJ interface is almost identical between the PC and the Mac.

http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/index.html

Image/J supports more types of images than NIH Image: 8-bit grayscale, 8-bit indexed color, 16-bit signed integer, 32-bit floating-point and 32-bit RGB color.