Note for Good Abstract Writing

In an abstract, the authors should put a sentence of background, a sentence of purpose, describing more about the methods and results, finally a conclusion. 

- from a reviewer

Useful MATLAB dialog boxes

User can input text, numbers through this: http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/inputdlg.html

User can choose a file through this:
http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/uigetfile.html

Some MATLAB image manipulation tools

Interactively select a rectangular ROI in an image - imcrop()
http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/images/imcrop.html


Interactively draw a line in an image - imline()
http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/images/imline.html

Zoom along 1 axis matlab

Click ZOOM button.
Then right-click on the plot
Then use the ZOOM Options sub-menu.. .Voila!

Truly right-click is the 'right' click.

Some more MATLAB tips and tricks

Interpolation - useful to compare datasets
http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/interp1.html

Image thresholding - Binary segmentation (Otsu's method)
http://www.mathworks.com/access//helpdesk/help/toolbox/images/graythresh.html

Manipulating Figures in MATLAB

• Creating a Legend
  http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk_r13/help/techdoc/ref/legend.html
• Setting axis limits
  http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/xlim.html

Google Analytics with Google Sites

Using Analytics with Google Sites
http://sites.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=14998

Using Analytics with Blogger
http://www.infektia.net/how-to-track-your-blogger-statistics-with-google/

Verifying that Google Analytics is working for a specific webpage (profile)
http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en_US&answer=55480&utm_id=ad

MATLAB

Low pass filtering in MATLAB
http://www.aquaphoenix.com/lecture/matlab10/page4.html

Sign function in MATLAB
http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/sign.html