BoneJ is a collection of Fiji/ImageJ plug-ins for skeletal biology. It provides free, open source tools for trabecular geometry and whole bone shape analysis. This repository hosts the modern and experimental incarnation of BoneJ in development. For ImageJ1 plug-ins, please visit http://bonej.org.
The code is in two main modules: Legacy and Modern. The code in Legacy is originally from BoneJ1, but it has been refactored to manage its dependencies via Maven. Unlike BoneJ1, the plug-ins in Legacy work with Java 8 and the latest version of Fiji. However some of them still depend on 3D_Viewer, which is known to have issues with the latest versions of MacOS (see the forum).
The main development happens in the Modern module. It hosts the modernized versions of BoneJ plug-ins, which fully comply with the current ImageJ API. Our goal is that as code matures, Modern will only host "thin" wrapper plug-ins. They should only be responsible for interacting with the user, and collecting and displaying results. These wrappers will call algorithms from the Ops framework, and utility code from imagej-common, scifio and other such core libraries.
- BoneJ wiki for technical documentation
- ImageJ wiki for BoneJ user documentation
- ImageJ forum for questions
If you'd like to improve the code in BoneJ or add new features, we'd greatly appreciate it! To get started have a look at the contribution guidelines. The wiki and forum are good places to find info on how to develop ImageJ based software.