Visible Human Preprocessing Toolkit (v1.0) For ImageJ
When we started working with images from the Visible Human Project, we became aware that the pre-processing of the anatomical images (eliminating the blue gel, centering the images, eliminating labels) presented a set of unique challenges. The Visible Human Preprocessing Toolkit was created to provide a fast, easy, cross-platform set of tools for pre-processing Visible Human Project images using ImageJ. We hope this approach will facilitate access to Visible Human images by non-programmers.
The Toolkit allows the user to read and process both male and female data sets, which consist of anatomical (2048 pixels x 1216 pixels), CT and MRI images in raw format. It cannot be used (yet) for the higher resolution images (4096 pixels x 2700 pixels). Once the files are read, they can be processed in multiple ways. The Toolkit specifically includes a Blue Gel Removal tool, applicable to both male and female anatomical datasets, and an Align Feature which will align images in the male anatomical dataset. With the Toolkit, the user can also apply macros generated with ImageJ macro functions to the set of original raw images. After doing the pre-processing, this application allows you to save images in any of a variety of formats and sizes.
