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General Description
MTrackJ is an ImageJ plugin to facilitate tracking of moving objects in image sequences and the measurement of track statistics.
The plugin can handle up to five-dimensional (5D) images of any type supported by ImageJ.
Download Information
Fiji users only need to enable the ImageScience update site to install MTrackJ.
ImageJ users need to manually download the following two jar-files to the plugins folder.
By downloading any of these files you indicate your agreement to the Terms and Conditions below.
> MTrackJ_.jar (version 1.5.1)
> imagescience.jar (version 3.0.0)
The source code of MTrackJ is available from GitHub.
Information on the second file (the support library) is also available.
See the online manual for information on how to use the plugin.
See the release notes for information on the present and past versions.
Terms and Conditions
Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Erik Meijering. Permission to use this software and corresponding documentation for educational, research, and not-for-profit purposes, without a fee and without a signed licensing agreement, is granted, subject to the following terms and conditions.
IT IS NOT ALLOWED TO REDISTRIBUTE, SELL, OR LEASE THIS SOFTWARE, OR DERIVATIVE WORKS THEREOF, WITHOUT PERMISSION IN WRITING FROM THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER. THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER IS FREE TO MAKE VERSIONS OF THE SOFTWARE AVAILABLE FOR A FEE OR COMMERCIALLY ONLY.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE AND ITS DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY THEREOF.
THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE SOFTWARE AND CORRESPONDING DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED 'AS IS'. THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER HAS NO OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS.
Acknowledgments
MTrackJ was developed at the Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam of Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands when I was working with colleagues on evaluating the performance of existing and newly developed tracking algorithms compared to manual tracking by human observers. Writing a general purpose program such as MTrackJ is not completely trivial. Therefore, if you publish results based on MTrackJ, I expect you to acknowledge me by citing the following paper:
- E. Meijering, O. Dzyubachyk, I. Smal
Methods for Cell and Particle Tracking
Methods in Enzymology, vol. 504, February 2012, pp. 183-200
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The paper gives an overview of principles and software for cell and particle tracking in time-lapse microscopy images and mentions MTrackJ as a useful tool for manual tracking in case automated tracking methods fail.