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ImageJ, made moddable

ImageJ is the workhorse of half the microscopy labs on earth, and most of its users are scientists, not programmers. The adapter wraps the plugin registry and the measurement pipeline, so a lab can change how an analysis behaves without touching Java.

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  • 1.54platest · Jun 2026
  • 1.54imaintained · Nov 2025
LicensePublic domain
Mods3
Variants341

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Things people ask for in ImageJ:

2 changes have been asked for here. Popular requests get built once and maintained for everyone.

Mods for ImageJ

Each one started as somebody's request and is now a capability you can switch on, with tests and compatibility history.

ImageJ

Low-contrast measurement

Leaf area measurement that holds up when the plant barely contrasts with the soil.

1.54ppassing58by Marta Iglesias
ImageJ

OME-Zarr batch export

Convert whole plates to OME-Zarr with every piece of channel metadata intact.

1.54ppassing41by Marta Iglesias
ImageJ

Cloudy-plate colony counting

Colony counts that stay honest when the agar is cloudy or the plate is scratched.

1.54ppassing27by Kofi Mensah

Asked for, not built yet

Aggregated demand. When enough people back a request, it gets built once and maintained for everyone who runs it.

Stitching preview for large scans

See the stitched result at low resolution before committing hours of compute.

6 backers

GPU thresholding on Apple silicon

Use Metal for adaptive thresholding on large stacks.

5 backers

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