# FilamentDetector

**Repository Path**: mirrors_fiji/FilamentDetector

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: FilamentDetector
- **Description**: A Fiji plugin that allows easy, fast and accurate detection and tracking of biological filaments.
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-09-24
- **Last Updated**: 2025-10-05

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

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`FilamentDetector` is a **Fiji plugin** that allows easy, fast and accurate detection and tracking of **biological filaments**. It comes with a bunch of **ready-to-use modules** to analyze filaments. `FilamentDetector` is also extensible which means that you can plug **your own algorithm** to detect, track and/or analyze filaments.

ImageJ wiki page: https://imagej.net/FilamentDetector.

## Installation

`FilamentDetector` is included with Fiji. Just open your image,
then start the plugin with `Plugins ► Tracking ► FilamentDetector`.

## How to cite

Since there is no published article about `FilamentDetector` at the moment you can use the DOI generated by Zenodo to cite `FilamentDetector` in your work: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2544848

## Screenshots

### Preprocess images
![Screenshot of FilamentDetector](./screenshots/1.preprocess.png "Screenshot of FilamentDetector")

### Detect filaments
![Screenshot of FilamentDetector](./screenshots/2.detect.png "Screenshot of FilamentDetector")

### Track filaments
![Screenshot of FilamentDetector](./screenshots/3.track.png "Screenshot of FilamentDetector")

### Generate kymographs
![Screenshot of FilamentDetector](./screenshots/4.kymo.png "Screenshot of FilamentDetector")

### Run more analysis
![Screenshot of FilamentDetector](./screenshots/5.analyze.png "Screenshot of FilamentDetector")

## Authors

`FilamentDetector` has been created by [Hadrien Mary](mailto:hadrien.mary@gmail.com).

This work started in 2016 at the [Gary Brouhard laboratory](http://brouhardlab.mcgill.ca/) at the University of McGill.

## License

MIT. See [LICENSE.txt](LICENSE.txt)