Image Processing Toolbox

A complete suite of digital image processing and analysis tools for MATLAB

The Image Processing Toolbox provides engineers and scientists with an extensive suite of robust digital image processing and analysis functions. Seamlessly integrated within MATLAB’s development environment, the Image Processing Toolbox is designed to free technical professionals from the time consuming tasks of coding and debugging fundamental image processing and analysis operations from scratch. This translates into significant time saving and cost reduction benefits, enabling you to spend less time coding algorithms and more time exploring and discovering solutions to your problems.

Features

Image Enhancement and Restoration
Region-of-Interest (ROI) Processing
Image Analysis
Linear Filtering
Linear 2-D Filter Design
Image Transforms
Geometric Operations
Neighborhood and Block Processing
Binary Image Operations
Pixel Values and Statistics
Color Space Conversions
Colormap Manipulation
Image Type Conversions

Highlights

Unified Visual Data Analysis Environment. The Image Processing Toolbox provides a complete image processing and analysis foundation that is seamlessly integrated into the MATLAB language. This union provides a highly flexible environment from which you can manipulate, process, and display images, as well as interactively generate graphical plots, visualize interim data in a multitude of ways, and annotate results for technical reports and publications. This flexibility, coupled with the intrinsic matrix and vector-oriented processing architecture of MATLAB, makes this environment exceptionally well suited for solving image processing applications.

Sophisticated Development Tools. MATLAB provides a sophisticated interactive development environment that places emphasis on productivity improvement tools. This well established environment includes:

Interactive Visual Debugger for algorithm development and refinement
Performance Profiler to optimize run-time performance of algorithms
Interactive Graphical User Interface (GUI) Builder for rapidly developing GUIs tailored to specific user preferences or paradigm

This extensive environment enables you to spend less time coding algorithms and provides more time for you to focus on the "big picture" – that is, extracting data and getting results from your images.

Open and Extensible. MATLAB and the Image Processing Toolbox provide an open and extensible environment in which to interactively explore ideas, prototype new methods, and develop complete solutions to your image processing challenges. To support development of more advanced applications, a broad selection of complementary toolboxes are available to help solve application-specific image processing and analysis problems.

The MATLAB language is based on an open architecture that enables you to share C, Fortran, or M-code based algorithms with your colleagues. Data, algorithm, and program sharing is supported across a variety of platforms including PC, UNIX, and Macintosh. The MathWorks state-of-the-art, multi-platform regression test facility in Natick, Massachusetts ensures that all components of the MATLAB language, including toolboxes, run reliably and accurately across all supported operating system platforms before a CD is ever pressed for shipment.

The Image Processing Toolbox in Industry

The Image Processing Toolbox is currently being used by over 4000 companies and universities worldwide across a broad spectrum of disciplines including aerospace/defense, astronomy, remote sensing, medical imaging, bio-scientific imaging, manufacturing automation, material science, and genetics research. Application-specific solutions that have been developed by customers using the Image Processing Toolbox include:

Noise filtering in MRI and CT
Target tracking and identification
Genetic karyotyping
Pre-print image enhancement
Non-destructive material testing
Streak-camera image filtering
Pattern recognition for ID and registration
Radar target discrimination

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