ImageJ is a public domain image analysis program written by Wayne Rasband of NIH. We have created an ImageJ plugin for interacting with an OME database, including the ability to upload images to the database, as well as search, browse, and download images from it, using the OME Java API for remote access to OME. The plugin also provides support for OME-TIFF files loaded from disk (the "View Metadata" button brings up metadata extracted from the OME-TIFF).

The OME plugins were written by Melissa Linkert based on code originally by Phil Huettl.

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OME plugin for ImageJ

The OME plugin for ImageJ has been used to download and visualize several datasets from an OME database. The search results window shows details of all datasets matching the specified criteria.

The plugin is capable of accessing an OME database and searching it for images matching the specified criteria. It brings up a list of matches through which the user can browse, and select which to actually download. It is capable of downloading both pixels and some associated metadata, which may be displayed in tree form by clicking the "View Metadata" button in the OME Plugin window. Results are visualized with a bundled version of our Data Browser plugin.

The plugin can also upload pixel data to OME by selecting an image in the OME Plugin window and clicking the "Upload" button. This functionality is similar to that provided within our VisBio visualization software.

The OME plugins are available for download:

Or you can download the unstable daily build for the latest bugfixes (and bugs).

Place the file in your ImageJ plugins folder. To access the plugins, choose "Download from OME" or "Upload to OME" from the LOCI submenu of ImageJ's Plugins menu.

The OME plugin requires OME 2.6.0 or newer. It will not work properly with OME 2.4.0.

The OME plugin can also download images from OMERO.

Windows users: The OME plugin requires Java 1.4 or later. Make sure you have the ImageJ distribution bundled with Java 5.0, not Java 1.3.

Developers: You can access the source code from our Subversion repository (see the LOCI Software page for instructions, or browse online).