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Scheduled Events:
Tuesday, September 16 - Thursday, September 18, 2008 - A three-day hands-on course on Quantitative Image Analysis is scheduled at the College of Microscopy near Chicago. Contact Charles Zona at the College of Microscopy, 850 Pasquinelli Drive, Westmont, IL 60559, (630) 887-7100. A brief description of the course contents is available at their website
Tuesday, June 2 - Friday, June 5, 2009 - A four-day hands-on course on Quantitative Image Analysis will be presented at the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO. This is the seventh year for this well-attended workshop, which provides attendees with a thorough grounding in Photoshop, image processing and measurement, and an opportunity to work on their own images. Contact Dr. Lou Ross, Electron Microscopy Core Facility, W136 Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211-5120, (573) 882-4777, fax 884-5414. Information on the course, contents, and facilities is available on-line.
Sunday July 26, 2009 - A one-day tutorial on strategies for quantitative image analysis will be presented as part of the Microscopy Society 2008 meeting in Richmond, VA. Registration for the workshop will be available at the MSA website.
These courses utilize Adobe Photoshop as a basic imaging platform, with plug-in routines that implement the algorithms for processing and measurement discussed in my book "The Image Processing Handbook, 5th edition, CRC Press, 2006" (See more about all my books on the "Books" page.) The Fovea Pro plug-ins are available from Reindeer Graphics, Inc., and include an extensive on-disk tutorial that I wrote, which follows the organization of the textbook. The tutorial can be downloaded as a series of Acrobat (*.pdf) files.
On-site workshops on image analysis can be customized to your organization's needs, which typically run 2 to 4 days and are very cost effective for 8-15 persons. Either Adobe Photoshop or Media Cybernetics Image Pro Plus can be used as a base program. You can download an outline (Acrobat pdf format) that shows the main topics that are usually covered. For more information, scheduling, and costs contact me directly.
I estimate that I have now taught three- and four-day courses to approximately 4000 students, and at least that many more have attended a one-day tutorial. But there are lots more people who would benefit from this information than I will ever be able to reach personally, so I've turned to technology to help. The Molecular Expressions microscopy web site hosted by Mike Davidson's group at Florida State University has an on-line set of my lecture notes enhanced by dozens of interactive Java applets, covering many of the topics that I present in a typical one-day tutorial. I encourage you to check it out.For further info: