| Image Processing Toolbox Release Notes | |
New Image Exploration and Enhancement Tool
The Image Processing Toolbox includes a new, open-architecture, image exploration and enhancement tool, called the Image Tool.
The Image Tool replaces the Image Viewer, providing all the display and exploration capabilities of its predecessor. For example, you can use the Image Tool to display an image, view general information about the image, get information about individual pixels or regions of pixels in the image, and navigate large images using the Overview navigation window, scroll bars, and magnification tools.
In addition, the Image Tool introduces several new tools, such as the Adjust Contrast tool and the Choose Colormap tool. You can use the Adjust Contrast tool to adjust the brightness and contrast of an image interactively. You can use the Choose Colormap tool to change the colormap for indexed and intensity images to any of MATLAB colormaps or to a user-defined colormap.
Unlike the Image Viewer, the Image Tool is built using standard features of MATLAB Handle Graphics. This enables the Image Tool to provide access to the image being displayed using standard Handle Graphics techniques. For example, you can use annotations and overlay vector graphics on images displayed in the Image Tool. You can use imtool as an example to follow or as a base to use to create your own application.
To start the Image Tool, use the imtool function:
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