Thanks Stephane for taking the time to answer.
I want to detect spots inside the cells. The images I need to work on are simulated using simcep (
http://www.cs.tut.fi/sgn/csb/simcep/) and I'm trying to compare the robustness of different spot detection techniques from different softwares.
Here is an example of a simulated image and its groundtruth:
http://imgur.com/a/zMmLc I need it to work using protocols (or a script, but I have no experience in Java...) because I need to test it on ~1000 images.