Question

I making App in Netbeans Platform using Java SE for Dentist.In my App i captured image using X-Ray gun and then do image process on it.First of all i want to convert 16 bits image to 8 bits image.So,how can i convert 16bits image to 8 bits image?

Answer 1

Assuming “bi” is your 16bit grayscale BufferedImage (obtained by ImageIO.read(…));

    BufferedImage dest = new BufferedImage(bi.getWidth(),bi.getHeight(),BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_GRAY);
    Graphics2D g2 = dest.createGraphics();
    g2.drawImage(bi, 0, 0, null);