Image Processing Toolbox™ 6.1

Product Description

• Introduction and Key Features
• Importing and Exporting Images
• Pre- and Post-Processing Images
• Analyzing Images
• Displaying and Exploring Images and Video
• Spatial Transformations and Image Registration

Importing and Exporting Images

Image Processing Toolbox supports images generated by a wide range of devices, including digital cameras, frame grabbers, satellite and airborne sensors, medical imaging devices, microscopes, telescopes, and other scientific instruments. You can visualize, analyze, and process these images in many data types, including single- and double-precision floating-point and signed or unsigned 8-, 16-, and 32-bit integers.

There are several ways to import or export images into and out of the MATLAB environment for processing. You can use Image Acquisition Toolbox (available separately) to acquire live images from Web cameras, frame grabbers, DCAM-compatible cameras, and other devices. Using Database Toolbox (also available separately), you can access images stored in ODBC/JDBC-compliant databases.

MATLAB supports standard data and image formats, including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, HDF, HDF-EOS, FITS, Microsoft Excel, ASCII, and binary files. It also supports multiband image formats, such as LANDSAT. Low-level I/O functions enable you to develop custom routines for working with any data format.

Image Processing Toolbox supports a number of specialized image file formats. For medical images, it supports the DICOM file format, including associated metadata, as well as the Analyze 7.5 and Interfile formats. The toolbox can also read geospatial images in the NITF format and high dynamic range images in the HDR format.

A display of MRI slices from a series of DICOM files, enabling visualization and exploration of medical images in MATLAB. Click on image to see enlarged view.

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