EasyXT

Update: 16 July 2015 Many bug fixes, and new features like Colocalization have been added. Documentation of the different functions has been improved. A Matlab class to ease the writing of XTensions. By Olivier Burri and Romain Guiet, BioImaging & Optics Core Facility (BIOP), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. EasyXT was built with the idea of simplifying the way we could interact with Imaris through Matlab. The Imaris Library we access is Java-coded, and though interaction with Matlab scipts is quite simple, we sometimes have to struggle with object type casting and different functions to accomplish similar goals. As a simple example, suppose we have a spots object available called 'mySpots'. To get the name, you need not forget to type spotName = char(mySpots.GetName); However with EasyXT, you could use. XT.GetName(mySpots), which ensures the type casting is done. More importantly, functions like DetectSpots or DetectEllipticSpotsRegionGrowing are now under a single function: XT.DetectSpots this function will call the appropriate spot detector based on the parameters that you feed into the function. Functions for detecting spots, surfaces, running XTensions, searching for objects in the scene, create masks and get statistics in a simplified manner. You can look at the example file to see the code working. Any questions or comments, feel free to contact us though this forum. This was tested and run under Imaris 7.6.5 We added EasyXT to GitHub, where you will find more information. https://github.com/lacan/EasyXT