Interactive Image Processing and Manipulation

Abstract

Electronic imaging informatics spans a diverse range of applications. These applications would benefit from an interpretive imaging platform, which allows dynamic manipulation and processing of electronic images. Ch is an embeddable C/C++ interpreter that provides an interpretive platform for C/C++ based scripts and programs. Combining Ch with ImageMagick provides the functionality for rapid development of user defined image manipulation and processing applications and scripts. The presented Ch ImageMagick package provides users with the ability to interpretively execute C code based on the ImageMagick C library. This article describes the integration of ImageMagick and Ch. The use of ImageMagick utilities in Ch scripts for rapid prototyping is illustrated. A Web-based example demonstrates the use of Ch and ImageMagick in C based CGI scripting to facilitate the development of Web-based applications involving image manipulation and processing.