# ImageJ Reviews **Vendor:** ImageJ **Category:** [Other Laboratory Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-laboratory) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 66 ## About ImageJ ImageJ is written in Java, which allows it to run on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, in both 32-bit and 64-bit modes. ## ImageJ Reviews ### 1. best software for basic sample analyses **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul R. | Full-stack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2023 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** its simple and free software and easy to use anyone and very useful for analyzing the properties of SEM TEM and other samples. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** the options are limited so some advanced analysis for the sample is not possible only suitable for basic analysis and it can not process large or multiple sample files **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** its very helpful to analyze my TEM sample image propertie like sample average nano size and the shape of the nanoparticles I'm using this software on my PG project for sample analysis...... ### 2. simple app for basic sample analysis **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul R. | Nanoscience and technology, Research, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2023 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** its a simple and userfriendly software and the options are simple anyone can analysis the image samples property by using this and its a free software also **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** we can not process large size and multiple image samples at once and the options are limited advanced analysis are not availabe. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** im using this software during my M.Tech nanoscience project research, and its very helpful for me to find the nano and micro particle size in a very simple way and it save my time considerably. ### 3. Best app for image analysis **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ninad K. | Senior Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2023 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** Imagej is a wonderful app for bioscience researchers. It is free, user friendly and has several options for image processing and analysis especially fluoroscence microscopy images. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** For specific analysis plug-ins are required and at times the plug- ins are not available or have been discontinued. In such a case new methodology for analysis has to be found out which is time consuming. UI can be improved to make it more interactive. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping me analyse fluorescence images and that helps us get an insight into cell physiology. ### 4. Imagej Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** prakash s. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2023 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** basic software for sample image processing. user friendly and format conversion is easy. simple and efficient to analyze micro and nano particles properties with SEM and TEM etc. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** Its only has a basic level need some other features like(originlab) its difficult forloading sample large data file **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** basic analyzing for micro and nano Sample Images so its used measurement just by have a image. ### 5. Extremely useful!!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maddy E. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2020 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** ImageJ is exceptionally useful for research purposes through image analysis which uses precise measurements - and it's free! **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** Occasionally crashes and can be a bit slow. The interface is a bit dry and using plugins can sometimes be complicated. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've used it for tracking foraging patterns in limpets and for measuring gastropod embryos under different environmental conditions. It's a top notch tool for quantifying biological patterns on both small and large scales. ### 6. Great image processing program **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric M. | IT Specialist/Network Admin, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2022 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** That it was created by and vetted for by National Institutes of Health and the Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation. It's competitors are more flashy, but ImageJ is function over form and gets the job done! **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** It is an aging java based program. It could use a total overhaul to update it to a modern language and feature set. It does one job, while other software like BioRaft do imaging and other functions in a single package. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a no frills imaging program and it gets the job done. Ease of use is great, but we aren't more productive or benefinting finiancially from it. Performance hasn't increased as we now have to run multiple programs alongside ImageJ to get the results we need. ### 7. The best image analysis software till date **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anwesha G. | PHD Scholar, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** The best things about ImageJ are its diverse plugins and functions. It gives frequent updates and new plugins being added every year. It also has a very wide community. One can ask questions online in different forums and people are very supportive and involved in solving one's problem. Another great thing is the ability to connect it with other software. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** I would like a better demonstration of new plugins using multiple different examples. Be it through different examples on their website or arranging more webinars. **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** It's the best software for image analysis I have ever come across. Most of your requirements will get fulfilled with this. You might need to play around a bit. One could also connect it with Matlab and go for other sophisticated functions. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being a cell biologist, my work deals with high-end microscopy and subsequently analyzing the images obtained. ImageJ reads most of the commonly used image files. I have been using ImageJ for 6 years to process images, do segmentation of cells, thresholding images and automate analyze particles, track moving objects (moving proteins inside cells), to name a few. One could also automate a lot of functions using the macro, which can also be used to do batch processing of images. ### 8. User friendly and open source image analysis software for biologists. Very useful and elegant **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mahima B. | Graduate Mentor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** We can download plugins for whatever job we require and code is most times freely available over the internet **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** No default options available that makes images automatically open via imageJ. Always have to drag and drop files. **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** I would recommend ImageJ to build up an international online community involving users as well as developers for a better feedback system and getting updates on new improvements, tips and guidance for use. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Confocal and STED data analysis has become really easy. No requirement of long hours of running complex codes by self. ### 9. Image-J: Measurements of microstructural particles made easy and quick ! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** Measurement and threshold perfection. Very clearly distinguishes between micro particles of different colors. Uniform spreading of auto threshold makes image analysis and measurement very quick and easy. The ability to map the measured image on top of raw image provides much more precision of the obtained results. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** Complex settings that could be often hard to understand. There are no custom settings therefore needing one to select all the parameters and adjust the controllables everytime for a new image. For example, if I have to carry out the same kind of measurement on 10 similar images for obtaining a good statistical result, I can't create a custom program of my own and run the same for all the 10 images hence making me repeat the same steps over and over for each image **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** It definitely saves a lot of time when it comes to phase and particle measurements in a microstructure. Definitely worth trying it out and then one would want to keep using it. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I usually base my experiments on the measured area fraction percentage from image J. It easily sets a threshold for an image that clearly distinguishes between colors and shapes of particles hence focusing on one set of particles that I intend to measure. The benefit of it is that it's easy to measure from anywhere, at office or at home without having to set up a microscope and spend a lot of time trying to set it up and measure. ### 10. A very competent data interpretation and analysis tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mikir P. | Operations Supervisor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** ImageJ offers a plethora of options to quantify and /or analyse data points obtained in various experiments such as clonogenic assay or foci experiments. The wide acceptance of this program across the scientific community make this a reliable program as well. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** ImageJ doesn't sensitively quantify data points obtained in experiments with radioisotopes such as P32. Hence, its application is limited. Researchers should identify the need for use of this program according to the type of experiments conducted. **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** Identify the experimental output before employing this program for quantification. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been using this program to enumerate colonies for clonogenic assay as well as quantify the number of foci in protein expression experiments. ### 11. ImageJ is a very useful tool in biological research **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MOONMOON D. | Royal Society- Newton International Fellow , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** It's an open-source and powerful image analysis tool that is easy to access. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** need lots of plugin, sometimes not easily available **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** Using ImageJ will help to analyze every aspect of the image (as example: expression level, 3D organization of the image, arranging, quantification of the image) **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am analyzing DNA gel image and confocal microscopy Images ### 12. Simple yet versatile **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** The vast amount of plugins and tools allow for many types of analysis. Also, the program does not use a lot of memory, so the analysis is relatively rapid. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** It takes a while to get accustomed to the program, but once you know the basics, it is easy and fast. **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** It is tough to find an equally versatile and powerful image analysis tool. The user community is enormous, and applications (tools, plugins) are in constant development; a new user needs to spend some time finding the right solutions for their experiments. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it primarily for histological analysis, and it allows for repetitive, standardized analysis of numerous images. ### 13. a great starting point for image analysis **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** It is free and still fairly powerful. It is also easy to expand through modules. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** The menus are too convoluted and require some exploration initially **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** It works pretty well, why not try it **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basic image analysis, but also using it as a starting point to test out new forms of morphological operations ### 14. Excellent for fiber diameter measurements, nanoparticle size meaurements, lattice distance measure. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dr. Robin A. | Postdoctoral Researcher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** I use it for measuring fiber diameters of electrospun membranes. Very useful tool. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** Plugins to measure blood vessels or cell numbers is a little complicated. **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** An excellent tool in materials science, nanotechnology and biomedical science applications. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Measuring microscale diameters and distances based on a reference scale. ### 15. Easy to use and powerful soft **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Igor E. | Postdoc, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** I used the software for quantitation of Western blot images. I found ImageJ as very convenient, simple to use and comprehensive software for image analysis. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** Original Help of this software is not written in simple way for the beginner. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I analyze images of Western blots. ### 16. ImageJ is very user friendly particularly for analyzing protein and gene expression analyses **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** Histopathological analysis in imageJ is beneficial, especially measuring the size and counting of the cells **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** As of now i didnt face any issue, and also no downsides of using imageJ **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** I recommend ImageJ software for everyone who needs to project their research report analysis in a better way **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** We solved the amount of protein expression or mass in our western blot images with multiple results for comparisons ### 17. The way it working is totally amazing. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prasanna R. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** The data is easily exportable and gives more information. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** The accuracy of the jpeg analysis is slightly low. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used to calculate the volume, area of overhanging rockblocks in hilly area. ### 18. User friendly and high performance **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** UZAIR Q. | Biomedical Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** The simplicity of segmenting my hyperspectral or fluorescence images for processing. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** Not Applicable as I am satisfied with the results. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has enabled me to differentiate the cells treated with ROS. ### 19. ImageJ is one of the essential softwares for scientific image analysis **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** InageJ is open source so it is always freely available. It serves as a very useful tool to process and analyse different types of images. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** It has many algorithms which can be complicated to use for beginners. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped to analyze different scientific image data that photoshop couldn't. ### 20. Easy to use, intuitive **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** For my purpose, to identify number of cells based on nuclei, it was perfect **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** nothing special to complain about, i was satisfied **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cell count in order to establish apoptosis or rigeneration ### 21. Easy and user friendly for analysis of scientific images **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** To create density histograms and line profile plots. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** Image processing functions such as contrast manipulation, sharpening and smoothing could be improved. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I did western blot analysis. I were able to quantify the protein concentration of the sample accurately. ### 22. ImageJ review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** The menu options are intuitive and helpful **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** The look is not very modern and good look better **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Determining cell viability ### 23. I think it's a very efficient way of analysing. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** It's good for the image processing application. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** There is a problem with bugs and saving the files **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used it to save data in text and spreadsheet format. ### 24. ImageJ is an amazing Image processing application that has helped me through my research. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** stack option, duplication, good formatting choices. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** time for loading and image also, the duplication process each time can get a litlle irritating when in hurry. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** image processing, concatination ### 25. Image/J is one great concept behind its development worth mentioning. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Chemicals | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** It's really easy to understand & handling. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** I don't found anything to not like this. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use this software to measure particle size of crystal ### 26. Image J **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Alternative Medicine | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2021 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** It is good for research work for western blot analysis. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** I dont dislike. It is easy to measure Western blot analysis. **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** Yes **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I dont have problem ### 27. my experience with imagej **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bhumika S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2020 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** I have calculated the size of microspheres with the help of ImageJ and it was very easy and accurate. it provides the accuracy for your work. Easy handling and gives very accurate results. This software is easy in learning and working with and it is very quick as well. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** I don't exactly dislike anything about it, it was a great software to work with. **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** It's good to use and accurate. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had calculated the sizes of thousands of microspheres which I made via experiment. And analyzed the difference in the sphericity of them. Also, I calculate the differences in all the microspheres. ### 28. Tools for macroglia and neurons research **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2020 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** Tools for determining the area of cell bodies and nuclei, sizes of organelles, processes of cells. Creating a film (3-day life of nerve tissue cells in vitro) from separate sequential photos. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** Work with a wide color spectrum (with multi-color fluorescent coloring) is almost impossible. **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** Trying to use all the tools from the menu for your purposes, sometimes methods that immediately seem to be secondary are more effective. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** The tools of the program ImageJ helped me in the research of the vital activity of macroglia and neurons in vitro. I did the counting of the number of cells, determined the sizes of cell soms (their length and area), nuclei, processes and their branches, the ratio of the sizes of the nucleus to the cell, the contrast of fluorescent labels when staining extracellular receptors. ### 29. The opportunity is unlimited for image processing and analyzing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Md Mamunur R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2020 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** Tons of functions for analyzing image, freedom to make custom make plugin, and processing is pretty quick **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** Sometimes its tough to find the appropriate functions- needs lot of reading **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Image analysis. I have used a custom made macro to solve pixel overlapping ### 30. The software is very friendly to use and helps to better understand the microstructure. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SAMI A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2020 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** Very easy to learn even if you are using it for the first time. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** The help in the software is not that clear . **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** F **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used it to analyse the tomography images to understand the morphology. ### 31. ImageJ: A review. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2020 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** I like how easy it is to navigate. My first time using it took under an hour to feel comfortable with it. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** Sometimes the software can be abit slow when importing images. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used image J to compare spider size to Web size in a terrestrial ecology research project. Image J benefitted me as it allowed me to accurately measure spiders and webs without being invasive. ### 32. Good resource for quantification **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2020 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** Choice of several plugins to ease the quantification process. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** Not very intuitive. Need to go back and forth between user guide to figure out a new thing. **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** Get familiar with the software using trial images first before starting your analysis. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Immunohistochemistry, Immunofluorescence and Western blot quantification. ### 33. A complete and advanced image editing tool! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anuj S. | Postdoctoral Scholar, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2019 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** ImageJ works with all different kinds of file formats and can be used to export from one file format to other so easily **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** It is based on Java and crashes often. It takes a long time to load larger images and doesn't use the RAM efficiently. **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** It is a very easy and advanced tool for image analysis. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to analyze microscope images. It is THE tool for image analysis and can perform a wide variety of analysis. It is a public domain Java image-viewing and -processing program. It is free to use. This makes it an excellent alternative to all the paid software out there. Since it is open source, it is very easy to make custom applications with it. Micromanager being one of them. It can control various devices of a microscope very easily. ### 34. Measure gel bands or cell size **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2020 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** User friendly software, most facilities have license **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** The analysis is not very accurate for my purposes, so I prefer better methods that do not rely on densitometry **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cell size and band size ### 35. Useful image processing software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2020 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** ImageJ is free and very user friendly tool **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** It sometimes crashes while handling batch files **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Image segmentation, combining multichannel images, creating image montages ### 36. It's a very useful software with useful plugins to be used for quantification purposes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2020 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** Multiple available plugins for different imaging and quantification **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** It's been pretty useful for me for neuronal quantification purposes **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quantification of histochemical images ### 37. Open source and powerful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2020 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** Range of plugins and ability to customize. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** Some proprietary image formats load poor **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quantifying immunostained tissue, denoising images. ### 38. Useful tool for image analysis **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2019 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** Very useful software for analyzing multiple images. Can save a time lapse of images and combine multiple images into the same file for comparison. Able to use anywhere from particle tracking to measuring fluorescent intensities of images. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** Sometimes not intuitive in placement of different tools. Have to use the tabs at the top that might have different levels of tools in order to find the one that I need. Would be nice to have shortcut links for frequently used tools. **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** Utilize online help resources for any issues that you might have. There are several videos out there from experienced users that will help with almost any issue that you come across. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** My lab uses imageJ mostly for looking at florescent images of bio-reactions as they occur over time. Very easy to use software that can be applied to our experiments. ### 39. Good software for analysis **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Benjamin R. | Graduate Student, Research, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** ImageJ is great for working with histological images and quantifying digital western blot exposure images. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** I have very little bad to say besides that it can be confusing to work with images at first. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** ImageJ has made quantification of histology (immunostaining) and western blotting extremely easy and streamlined. The quantification process is simple and, in my experience, accurate. ### 40. Small & simple, but useful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Neda A. | Dr, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2018 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** It's light and easy to work with, does not eat your RAM! while still useful in many of our research works. Sometimes it can be the only software that does the job! The user guide is very useful. It's friendly with several file types. It's also useful when you have animation or 3D visualization. Has Shortcut keys to make your work easier. Also I should say thanks for letting it be a free software! **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** Well, nothing really! although sometimes you feel that it has caused bias or the given results are not what you are actually looking for. At first you might find it difficult to figure out how to work with, although this can be with any software! Once I remember I had to make some markings on the image, but if I clicked by accident outside the marked area, all my work was gone and had to start from the beginning! This was very frustrating. **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** For sure I do recommend it, give it a shot! It takes time to get familiar with, but at the end it might be your only solution. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it for our science research in ophthalmology (cornea) in in-vitro or ex-vivo experiments. It helped us in different types of measurements and comparisons; e.g. measuring surface areas to compare corneal wound sizes or in scratch assays to see cells in which plate have move further; comparing fluorescence intensity of immunostaining specifically helped me a lot. We have also used it to measure pixel density in Western Blot. ### 41. Basic image analysis software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2019 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** Free! Also, really good for basic image analysis techniques like thresholding and intensity profiles. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** Sometimes too basic and integrating plugins can get buggy and frustrating quickly. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it for analysis in my research, able to get more from my images ### 42. Image J **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Md S. | Graduate Research Assistant, Research, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2018 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** Image J is a very powerful tool which can be used in a variety of research fields such as medical science, engineering and so on. I used it for the data analysis and extraction which helps me a lot for my research. I love to use it. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** It has a lot of features like tracking, measurement, and analysis. However, It is time-consuming for this kind of analysis. Sometimes, you can not open any format file with this for the purpose you need to install the plugin of that software. **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** Comparing other software, there is no alternative to image J software and they are improving day by day. I can open any format file (sometimes if you have plugin), you can edit, save, and extracting the with available software features. I will strongly recommend to the researchers and scholars as it is an inexpensive software. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Overall, I am satisfied with the service of image J. I am loving it. First of all, it is not expensive to use image J software with a lot of features. My data analysis and extraction, it is a perfect tool for my research. I will recommend using this software. ### 43. Great for Image Quantification **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben J. | Associate Researcher, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** ImageJ is a small program with simple plugins, so it is quick and will work well for most file sizes, as long as they aren't several gigabytes. I most enjoy the image merging and automated scale bar functions, and use ImageJ for creating histological images for my research. ImageJ is great at things like puncta quantification and identification of similar structures within something like a fluorescent tissue section. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** The file size limit can sometimes be a nuisance, as some microscopy images can be gigantic (5gb+). But this isn't a problem for most types of imaging, as there are alternative programs for things like 3D analysis. **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** Try using several of the newer plugins, and learn how to use ImageJ properly before trying to do any intensive data analysis of images. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've benefited from ImageJ through being able to quickly and easily compile and merge different images together, as well as separate them. I also enjoy the analysis plugins and tracing tools. My primary use for ImageJ is identifying co-labeling of antibodies within brain tissue sections. Merging images together also allows me to show in an image what would take multiple sentences of text to describe. Among other things, one of the more notable results from my use of ImageJ was a cover image in Nature Neuropsychopharmacology several years ago. ### 44. Great way to quantify images **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** I think that it is great to turn qualitative data into quantitative data **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** Some of the menu items are not super intuitive--you feel like they should be in a better place. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Image J has advanced our research through image quantification. ### 45. Ease of usability **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishant S. | Full Stack Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2018 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** ImageJ is very easy to use. Since it is written in Java, it can run in any platform like Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, etc. ImageJ's plugin architecture and built-in development environment has made it a popular platform for teaching image processing. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** The fact that the User Experience is dull, it sometimes gets boring or I would say people who are using it for the first time don't find it much intriguing. While working with ImageJ, it sometimes feel like we are still using applications on Windows 98 or below platforms, which we all know is not a good user experience as compared to modern day technology norms. **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** I would highly recommend this product as it is very easy to use due to its plugin architecture and built-in environment and the fact that it is written on Java and can be accommodated in any platform like Windows, Linux, Mac OSX , etc. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** So we had to use ImageJ for our Artificial Intelligence project and we used it to teach new members of the team for image processing. As it is easy to use, the newly appointed team members didn't find it hard to learn the various aspects of image processing from ImageJ and its plugin architecture and built-in environment. ### 46. Great, no frills image software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amy H. | Researcher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2018 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** This program is simple and works well with a lot of free plugins made available by others. It has a no frills setup, which I find great because it leaves room on the screen to work with many images. I primarily use this software for biomedical research analysis of microscopy images and not as a standard photo editing tool like Photoshop. For those looking to just do some simple photo editing, Photoshop might be a better tool. Also, it's free! **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** For some forms of analysis or experiments I often have to depend on external plugins to get the job done and sometimes it is difficult to find the right plugins and learn how to use it correctly. There is a bit of a learning curve with using this software as well. I think it can do a lot more than I have tapped into and that is probably because the tools aren't necessarily in the folders or buttons I would think of. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use this software primary for biomedical research working with analyzing confocal, live cell, and electron microscopy images. It is the primary image software tool for biomedical scientists and has worked really well for research purposes. I prefer to use ImageJ over Photoshop for science needs because there are more extensive tools available for analysis rather than just photo editing. ### 47. Effective - if you know what you're doing **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Loyd S. | Front Desk, Health, Wellness and Fitness, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2018 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** I really like that you can take precise measurements from a video or pictures simply using something of scale within the frame. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** I dislike the learning curve. When using ImageJ you have to be very careful to make sure the things you're trying to measure are on the same plain and at about the same distance from the lens, otherwise your measurements are going to be off. I also dislike that the UI is so basic looking. **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** Give it a try even though it looks rather dull, it speeds up a lot of things. Its free too! **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** The most recent thing I used it for was analyzing flight speeds and distances of projectiles but I have also used it for things such as tracking the movements of a snake to feed into the movement algorithm for a robotic snake. It makes the arduous calculations that you don't want to do, and it does them extremely quickly. ### 48. Hard to use but for free **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2019 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** It is one of the few tools that are available for free for image analysis **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** It is hard to use. There are many options and tools but no explanation on what it does. It takes time to explore it to be able to use it effectively **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** use other platforms (or google) to look up how to use imageJ for your purpose. Much is possible, you just need to know how to use it. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** analysis images from microscopy and processing them into different formats or counting particles and constructing time lapse videos ### 49. ImageJ is a life saver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2019 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** I love how much it can be done in imageJ with plugins **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** I do not like that installing plugins can get complicated **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use imageJ for various image analysis and segmentation ### 50. Sophisticated program for generating high resolution images **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2019 **What do you like best about ImageJ?** This is the go-to program for generating high resolution images for scientific publications. The fact that it is widely used within the scientific community aids in its applicability. **What do you dislike about ImageJ?** The compatibility of ImageJ with difference operating systems is largely debatable. This program is susceptible to crashes and untimely stoppages without saving data, which is extremely frustrating to the end user. **Recommendations to others considering ImageJ:** There may not be other options as good as this one when it comes to image processing, but you will have to tolerate sudden crashes. **What problems is ImageJ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to refine my gel images to make them ready for submission to a scientific journal. 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