ImageJ in Computational Fractal-Based Neuroscience: Pattern Extraction and Translational Research

Audrey L. Karperien, Herbert F. Jelinek

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    Abstract

    To explore questions asked in neuroscience, neuroscientists rely heavily on the tools available. One such toolset is ImageJ, open-source, free, biological digital image analysis software. Open-source software has matured alongside of fractal analysis in neuroscience, and today ImageJ is not a niche but a foundation relied on by a substantial number of neuroscientists for work in diverse fields including fractal analysis. This is largely owing to two features of open-source software leveraged in ImageJ and vital to vigorous neuroscience: customizability and collaboration. With those notions in mind, this chapter’s aim is threefold: (1) it introduces ImageJ, (2) it outlines ways this software tool has influenced fractal analysis in neuroscience and shaped the questions researchers devote time to, and (3) it reviews a few examples of ways investigators have developed and used ImageJ for pattern extraction in fractal analysis. Throughout this chapter, the focus is on fostering a collaborative and creative mindset for translating knowledge of the fractal geometry of the brain into clinical reality.

    Original languageBritish English
    Title of host publicationAdvances in Neurobiology
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages795-814
    Number of pages20
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2024

    Publication series

    NameAdvances in Neurobiology
    Volume36
    ISSN (Print)2190-5215
    ISSN (Electronic)2190-5223

    Keywords

    • Box counting
    • Computer-assisted impage processing
    • FracLac
    • Fractals
    • ImageJ
    • Microglia
    • Neurons
    • Theoretical models

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