When a TrackMate session is running, the Fiji toolbar displays a new tool specific to TrackMate.
This tool must be active for the shortcuts displayed below to work.
Double-clicking on the tool icon will bring the TrackMate tool config panel:
Selection
Key / Mouse
Action
click inside a spot
Select the spot.
shift + click
Add / Remove from selection.
click and drag
Draws a freehand ROI. All spots in the current frame inside the ROI are selected.
shift + click and drag
The spots across all frames inside the ROI are selected.
Navigation
Key / Mouse
Action
↓ / ↑
When a spot is selected, navigate within a track, forward and backward in time.
← / →
Within a track, move across siblings. That is: move to a spot that belongs to the same track within the same frame. For instance: across two daughter cells after a cell division.
⇟ / ⇞
Navigate across tracks.
f / g
Change the time-point currently displayed. Move backward / forward in time, by an amount specified in the TrackMate tool config panel.
Editing.
All editing commands require the mouse to be placed inside a spot. No need to click.
Key / Mouse
Action
a
Add a new spot at the mouse location. If the auto-linking mode is on, the new spot is automatically linked to the spot currently selected, and the new spot becomes selected.
d
Delete the spot at the mouse location.
q / e
Change the radius of the spot at the mouse location. Make it smaller / bigger.
shift + q / e
Like above, but with greater amount of changes.
l
Toggle a link between two spots in the selection. There must be exactly two spots selected, and they need to be not in the same frame. If a link already exists between the two selected spots, it is removed.
shift + a
Start semi-automatic tracking for the spot in the selection. The parameters for semi-automatic tracking can be edited in the TrackMate tool config panel.
The TrackMate tool config panel.
When a TrackMate session is running, the Fiji toolbar displays a new tool specific to TrackMate.
This tool must be active for the shortcuts displayed below to work.
Double-clicking on the tool icon will bring the TrackMate tool config panel:
Selection
click
inside a spotshift
+click
click
anddrag
shift
+click
anddrag
Navigation
↓
/↑
←
/→
⇟
/⇞
f
/g
Editing.
All editing commands require the mouse to be placed inside a spot. No need to click.
a
If the auto-linking mode is on, the new spot is automatically linked to the spot currently selected, and the new spot becomes selected.
d
q
/e
shift
+q
/e
l
shift
+a
shift
+l