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documents:200720ijmacro_headless

ImaegJ Macro Headless Limitations

There are two ways to run ImageJ “Headless”ly.

1. Real-Headless: running ImageJ without any display. 2. Pseudo-Headless: running ImageJ without physical display, but with a virtual display that is hidden - virtual frame buffer. xvfb-run command is often used for this purpose.

With the second method, you can run ImageJ macro just like you do with GUI. The speed of processing is similar to that you experience with normal GUI. With the first method, as there is no GUI drawing involved, the processing becomes much faster - but there are some problems. As some of the windows often used in ImageJ macro, such as ROI Manager and Results table cause “headlessexception” error and you will fail in the successful execution of that macro. (If you use xvfb-run, this does not happen).

There is some workaround as shown below.

ROI Manager

Don't use ROI Manager in a pure-headless environment. Instead, use Overlay function like the example below.

https://github.com/imagej/imagej-legacy/issues/153

run("Blobs (25K)");
setAutoThreshold("Default");
run("Analyze Particles...", "  show=Overlay");
Overlay.copy
newImage("Untitled", "8-bit ramp", 256, 254, 1);
Overlay.paste
for (i=0; i<Overlay.size; i++) {
  Overlay.activateSelection(i);
  List.setMeasurements;
  mean = List.getValue("Mean");
  print(i+"  "+mean);
}

Results Table

You can see the results table by saveAs(“Results”, path) command, but the renaming of the results table becomes impossible in the pure-headless environment. Avoid renaming, and instead, try to save the results table as soon as the results are filled in the table with a specific file name.

documents/200720ijmacro_headless.txt · Last modified: 2020/07/20 23:39 by kota