Examples of image analysis

Below is a list of examples of how Pixcavator has been used to analyze images in an enormous variety of fields.

Virtually all of the examples below solve real-life problems for our users.

Note that almost none of the analysis examples require prior image enhancement. While looking at the analyzed images, observe that the analysis settings are appended to the name of the original image (for example, cells_100_20.bmp is the image that displays the results of the analysis of cells.bmp with the settings: size = 100, contrast = 20). This way you can easily reproduce the results on your own. There are also screenshots that show the settings. For more see Pixcavator help.

Please feel free to use Pixcavator's screenshots in presentations, publications, reports, etc. Many users have done this previously and we appreciate that they give us the credit. For the legal details see Pixcavator's user's license and Terms and conditions.

See also this point-by-point comparison of Pixcavator and ImageJ.

1 Is Pixcavator for you?

There are several ways to approach this question.

First, you can determine if your images may be good candidates for analysis with Pixcavator by reading Images appropriate for analysis.

Second, you can consider these (overlapping) categories of examples classified according to the image analysis tasks:

1. Counting
2. Measuring
3. Image statistics
4. Calibration
5. Locations
6. Color analysis
7. Customization
8. 3D analysis

Third, see these categories of examples classified according to the field of application:

1. Microscopy
2. Material science
3. Medicine
4. Machine vision
5. Maps
6. Biology
7. Physics
8. Mobile

You can also browse the complete list of examples in the next section or scan the images on the right (if you find one of them interesting, click on the image and then go to the bottom of the page to "The following pages link to this file").

Consider also:

• Publications that use Pixcavator

2 Complete list of examples

Favorites are in bold.

1. Analysis of sample images (synthetic images and standard images)
2. Flow-through pore diameters (paper)
3. Control of electron transport (paper)
4. Inspecting semiconductor wafers (machine vision)
5. Cell counting (measuring etc)
6. Measuring staining in the liver
7. Cell metal segregation and ultramicroscopy
8. Blood vessels (not very successful)
9. Evaluating ratio meat/fat
10. Evaluating ratio meat/fat 2
11. Character recognition (aka OCR)
12. Image analysis for a hand-held diagnostic device (arrays)
13. Mosaic making (fun)
14. Optical illusions (fun)
15. Microarray analysis (HTC)
16. Drusen contours (ophthalmology)
17. Counting sealed brood in bee frames
18. Measuring the volume of prostate cancer tumor (slice by slice)
19. Measuring holes in a gasket (calibration)
20. Ophthalmology diagnosis
21. Detecting a small breast cancer tumor
22. MRI (under construction)
23. Solar flares (astronomy)
24. Cellular structures (cell counting)
25. Iceberg is born (satellite imaging)
26. Metallurgical image analysis
27. Crystallites (counting particles)
28. Measurement statistics of fibers
29. Thermal imaging (night vision)
30. Wall of a blood vessel (measuring thickness)
31. Medical testing device
32. Fluorescent images for tumor demarcation
33. Measuring chromosomes (not quite successful)
34. Measuring electronic components
35. Testing vaccine spray/aerosol droplets
36. High throughput screening (paper)
37. Counting fixed and live red blood cells
38. Melanoma (ABCD analysis)
39. Counting and measuring lots (real estate)
40. Corneas of rats (paper)
41. Evaluation of quality of seeds (paper)
42. Micropallet arrays
43. Nanotechnology (counting particles)
44. Corneal endothelial cells of the human eye (hexagonal cells)
45. Particle cleaning process
46. Measuring a needle
47. Measuring micromechanical parameters of fiberglass
48. Counting cones in a mouse's retina
49. Measuring length of fish in petri dish
50. Transversal section of a root (measuring)
51. Circumference of a coral lesion
52. Counting chocolates in a box
53. Defective spring
54. Microscopy of surfactants
55. Membranes containing proteins
56. Particle statistics with calibration
57. Satellite image of Sicily
58. Counting stained DNA
59. Immunohistochemistry on lung biopsies
60. Cluster size effects in molecular beam scattering (paper)
61. Measure vegetation coverage
62. Hose measurements
63. Measuring seedling area
64. Bubble sheets
65. Quality of soldering
66. Phase transition of petroleum
67. Mobility and distribution of chlorophyll proteins
68. The behaviour of double oxide film defects in liquid Al alloys
69. Sub-pixel accuracy for distance measurement
70. Analysis of SEM images of alloy
71. Breast carcinoma detection
72. Immunohistochemical detection in a study of hypertension
73. Antimicrobial study of a medicinal plant
74. Fish counting
75. Colorant dispersion
76. Seurat's painting
77. Fungi kill spiders
78. Properties of stones for railway foundation
79. Geometry of corneocytes imaged with fluorescent microscopy
80. Anticancer property of gallic acid
81. Bioelectrical signals control stem cell progeny