BoneJ
BoneJ is a plugin for bone image analysis in ImageJ. It provides free, open source tools for trabecular geometry and whole bone shape analysis.
User documentation is provided at bonej.org.
Development on BoneJ started for a number of practical and ethical reasons:
- Our images are big (several gigabytes). Other software crashed when we tried to load more than 600MB.
- Other software failed to open even our small images. ImageJ opens a huge range of image formats.
- Some things we wanted to do were not implemented in other software.
- Or when they were implemented, code could not be examined. We didn't want a black box sitting in the middle of our experiments. BoneJ is open source (the source is in the .jar), so you can see where your results come from.
- Some useful things had become available for ImageJ, like the Local Thickness plugin.
- Licences are expensive, especially when compared to the cost of a postdoc's time.
- Java is 32- and 64-bit, multithreaded and runs on lots of OS's (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris). Where there is Java, ImageJ and BoneJ can run.
- Our project is funded by the BBSRC, which means British taxpayers pay for much of (but not all of) BoneJ. So, in the spirit of public openness, BoneJ is available to all our funders.
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