Chapter 4
Displaying Images..............................................................................65
4.1 Simple Display Techniques............................................................................ 65
4.2 Displaying Images within Your Front Panel ................................................. 67
4.2.1 The Intensity Graph ...........................................................................67
4.2.2 The Picture Indicator .........................................................................68
4.2.3 Embedding an IMAQ Display Window ............................................71
4.3 The Image Browser........................................................................................74
4.4 Overlay Tools .................................................................................................77
4.4.1 Overlaying Text.................................................................................. 77
4.4.2 Overlaying Shapes ............................................................................. 77
4.4.3 Overlaying Bitmaps ........................................................................... 78
4.4.4 Combining Overlays ..........................................................................79
4.5 The Vision Window Tools Palette..................................................................81
4.5.1 Available Tools...................................................................................81
4.5.2 Vision Tools Palette Hints..................................................................84
Chapter 5
Image Processing ............................................................................... 85
5.1 The ROI (Region of Interest) ........................................................................85
5.1.1 Simple ROI Use .................................................................................86
5.1.1.1 Line .....................................................................................86
5.1.1.2 Square and Rectangle ......................................................... 86
5.1.1.3 Oval.....................................................................................88
5.1.2 Complex ROIs.................................................................................... 88
5.1.2.1 Rotated Rectangle...............................................................89
5.1.2.2 Annulus Arc ........................................................................89
5.1.2.3 ROI Tracing Example......................................................... 92
5.1.3 Manually Building a ROI: The “ROI Descriptor” ............................93
5.2 User Solution: Dynamic Microscopy in Brain Research..............................98
5.2.1 Program Description ..........................................................................99
5.2.2 Recording Video Sequences...............................................................99
5.2.2.1 Analysis of Video Sequences ...........................................100
5.2.3 Summary ..........................................................................................101
5.3 Connectivity .................................................................................................102
5.4 Basic Operators ............................................................................................ 103
5.4.1 Add (Combine) ................................................................................103
5.4.2 Subtract (Difference)........................................................................ 105
5.4.3 Other Basic Operators......................................................................108
5.4.4 Averaging .........................................................................................108
5.5 User Solution: Image Averaging with LabVIEW .......................................110
5.6 Other Tools................................................................................................... 113
5.6.1 Symmetry (Mirroring an Image) .....................................................113
5.6.2 Rotate ...............................................................................................115
5.6.3 Unwrap ............................................................................................. 116
5.6.4 3D View............................................................................................117
5.6.5 Thresholding..................................................................................... 117
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