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Media Cybernetics - From Images to Answers
Imaging Software

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Image-Pro Plus
3D volume rendering and 3D filters
Image-Pro Plus is the ultimate image analysis software package for fluorescence imaging, quality assurance, materials imaging, and various other scientific, medical, and industrial applications.

The most powerful member of the Image-Pro software family, Image-Pro Plus includes extensive enhancement and measurement tools and allows you to write application-specific macros and plug-ins.

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Key Benefits

  • Work With a Proven Solution - Reflecting over 20 years of development, evolution, and user feedback, Image-Pro Plus provides a full range of utilities for capturing, communicating, processing, measuring, analyzing, archiving, reporting, and printing.
  • Spend Time on What's Important - Image-Pro Plus' user-friendly environment enables you to spend less time learning to use your software and more time analyzing and learning from your images.
  • Automate Your Research - Compress lengthy operations into a single keystroke or mouse click with Image-Pro Plus' Auto-Pro programming language.
  • Add Multi-Dimensional Imaging - Further extend the functionality of Image-Pro Plus with the following integrated plug-in modules: Scope-Pro automated microscope control, AFA advanced fluorescence acquisition, SharpStack image deconvolution, and 3D Constructor three-dimensional reconstruction and measurement.
  • Join an Imaging Community - When you use Image-Pro Plus, you are instantly part of a worldwide imaging community. Our imaging training courses, Email Users' Group, and the searchable online database Solutions Zone allow you to expand your imaging knowledge and learn new techniques from others.

Image-Pro Discovery
Obtain quick distance measurements with display on the image (image courtesy of Triptar Lens Company)

Image-Pro Discovery provides easy-to-use measurement and analysis tools needed for various scientific, medical, and industrial applications. It offers all the functionality of Image-Pro Express along with an extended list of enhancement and measurement tools and the ability to add applications specific plug-ins.

Image-Pro Discovery is the ideal solution for research professionals who need a solution with advanced measurement and image analysis capabilities, but do not wish to write their own macros or plug-ins.

Key Benefits

  • Spend Time on What’s Important – Image-Pro Discovery’s user-friendly environment enables you to spend less time learning to use your software and more time analyzing and learning from your images.
  • Get Repeatable Results - Easily guarantee fast and repeatable results by taking advantage of Image-Pro Discovery’s many measurement tools.
  • Add Multi-Dimensional Imaging - Further extend the functionality of Image-Pro Discovery with the following integrated plug-in modules: Scope-Pro automated microscope control, AFA advanved fluorescence acquisition, SharpStack image deconvolution, and 3D Constructor three-dimensional reconstruction and measurement.
  • Grows with Your Needs – As your imaging requirements grow, you may upgrade to the full power of Image-Pro Plus easily and at an affordable price.

Image-Pro Express
Apply crosshair grids for precise placement of images during capture

Image-Pro Express is the cost-effective image enhancement software perfect for basic imaging or image capture stations.

As the first step in the Image-Pro software series, Image-Pro Express comes equipped with the basic features needed to capture and enhance images for scientific, medical, and industrial research.

Key Benefits

  • Quick Image Capture - Image-Pro Express is a perfect addition to your imaging station. It allows you to quickly capture and enhance images with most popular digital cameras, video cameras, scanners, microscopes, and image databases.
  • Numerous Enhancement Options - Image-Pro Express allows you to quickly process images right at your capture station to guarantee high quality, accuracy, and reproducibility. Tools such as Extended Depth of Field (EDF) allow you to prepare images for detailed analysis.
  • Upgrade for Additional Features - As your imaging requirements grow, you may find that you will need the power of Image-Pro Discovery or Image-Pro Plus. You can upgrade to either of these products easily and at an affordable price.

Image-Pro Bundles
Image-Pro AMS
This complete solution for high-level microscopy analysis and acquisition combines Image-Pro Plus 5.1 with powerful tools for multi-dimensional microscope control, image deconvolution, and 3D rendering (the same tools found in the Scope-Pro, AFA, SharpStack, and 3D Constructor Plug-in Modules).
Image-Pro MDA

The Image-Pro Microscope Control (MC) package combines Image-Pro Plus Version 5.1 with tools to control and program the movement of your automated microscope and/or stage (the same tools found in the Scope-Pro Plug-in Module).

Image-Pro MC

The Image-Pro Microscope Control (MC) package combines Image-Pro Plus Version 5.1 with tools to control and program the movement of your automated microscope and/or stage (the same tools found in the Scope-Pro Plug-in Module).

Image-Pro Express

Ideal for deconvolution and interactive control and analysis of volume stacks, this package combines Image-Pro Plus 5.1 with image deconvolution and rendering tools (the same tools found in the SharpStack and 3D Constructor Plug-in Modules).

Image-Pro Analyzer

Ideal for networked users who want advanced analysis tools but do not need image capture functionality at each work station. Image-Pro Analyzer offers all of the powerful analysis features of Image-Pro Plus 5.1, but does not include support for Twain or PhotoShop plug-ins. Available in 5 or 10-seat licenses.


Scope-Pro
Capture and save Z-stacks of images

Scope-Pro is designed to control and program the movement of automated microscopes and/or stages. It is available in the following Image-Pro packages: Image-Pro Advanced Microscopy Suite, Image-Pro Multi-dimensional Acquisiton and Image-Pro Microscope Control.

Standard point-and-click functions of the stage control include single step movement in any X, Y, or Z direction. Scope-Pro also controls your motorized filter wheels, shutters, filter sliders, and lamp settings.

Key Benefits

  • Reproducible Results - Control complex microscopy equipment in a simple, repeatable manner for reproducible results.
  • Work Comfortably, with More Freedom - Reduce the need to place your eye to the ocular during image acquisition.
  • Automate Your Procedures - Virtually eliminate the need to manually adjust microscope controls.
  • Work with Speed and Accuracy – Automate repetitive routines for better quality control and increased efficiency.

AFA
Composite image derived from 16 Z-stack sets from 3 fluorescent channels using AFA (image courtesy of Richard Cole, Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY)

The AFA - Advanced Fluorescence Acquisition plug-in module is for designed research microscopists who need to automate and manage complex acquisition setup parameters, user feedback display, and subsequent sorting into sets for analysis.

It allows researchers to manage all combinations of image acquisition modes and image sets including time, channel (wavelength), focus (z-stack) and stage position.

Key Benefits

  • Expose More Information – Expose a vast amount of information through the collection of 6D and 7D image sets within a single experiment.
  • Automate Complex Acquisition Modes - Easily manage sophisticated routines for controlling microscopes and peripheral devices such as filter wheels, shutters, automated stages, and cameras.
  • Efficiently Manage Multiple Image Sets – Use the Set Manager to organize, extract, and display multiple image sets.

SharpStack
Pig cerebellum image stack deconvolved and rendered (bottom) with SharpStack and 3D Constructor plug-in modules.

SharpStack and SharpStack Plus remove haze and improve resolution in two- and three-dimensional image stacks using deconvolution and deblurring algorithms.

SharpStack offers Nearest Neighbor, No Neighbor, and Inverse Filter algorithm functions, while SharpStack Plus offers additional 2D and 3D Blind algorithms.

Key Benefits

  • Enhanced Visualization - Produce image with increased resolution, increased contrast, and improved signal-to-noise ratio.
  • Work with Quantitative Data - Retain quantitative accuracy of your data with 2D and 3D blind algorithms.
  • Smooth Workflow - The SharpStack Plug-in Modules integrate seamlessly with Image-Pro Plus , 3D Constructor and Image-Pro Discovery.

3D Constructor
3D rendering of a kidney glomerulus (image courtesy of Dr. Brian Matsumoto -Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology University of California, Santa Barbara, CA)

3D Constructor is for scientific researchers who wish to explore three-dimensional relationships within and among objects.

It is available in the following Image-Pro packages: Image-Pro Advanced Microscopy Suite and Image-Pro 3D Suite.

Key Benefits

  • Visualize Images in Three Dimensions
  • Apply Measurements to 3D Images
  • Track Objects in a 4D Sequences
  • Visualize, Trace, and Count Neurons
  • Explore Wavelength Overlap with 3D Colocalization
  • Create Animations of 3D Images
  • Display and Export Image Data

IQbase
After capturing or analyzing images in Image-Pro Plus (shown in the background screen below), you can archive those images and all related data directly into IQbase with a single click.

IQbase is a powerful image asset management solution that enables organizations to effectively store, query, and share large numbers of images and related data. Collaborate within your organization and with outside partners by sharing image data through your network or via the Internet.

Streamline your workflow with easy “click and choose” tools for archiving, querying, data display, customizing and reporting.

Unlike database products designed for business applications, IQbase provides accessibility from the pixel level to the meta-data level. No other image database software offers the sophisticated level of data integration, scalability, and customization of IQbase.

Key Benefits

  • Image Asset Management – Secure and searchable storage of images, together with associated data, means never losing valuable research.
  • Enterprise Imaging – Build an organization-wide knowledge base of images by allowing multi-user access to local, desktop databases.
  • Drives Discovery - Advanced querying tools allow you to expose information hidden within individual stored images or across all of your images.
  • Facilitates Collaboration - Server version allows secure multi-user sharing and collaboration of images and data via the network. Optional web interface allows display of stored images and data via the web.
  • Easy Image Management - Drag and drop images or associated data directly into IQbase. No special database skills are required to create databases, folders, fields, or search queries.
  • Customize Your Workflow - Customization options and a built-in Microsoft VBA® interface allow you to create your own workflows and VBA macros.
  • Grows with your Organization - Add seats as your projects expand.

IQstudio
Create customized applications with a full range of measurement and data analysis tools

IQstudio offers the tools developers need to create sophisticated image analysis applications. It allows you to rapidly prototype imaging applications or add image processing and databasing components to existing applications.

IQstudio includes time-saving samples and step-by-step development wizards that let you focus on the functionality of your application – not the code.

Key Benefits

  • Prototype New Applications or Add Components to Existing Applications
  • Save Time with Development Wizards
  • Work with Proven Image Analysis Objects
  • Integrate Capture & Display
  • Save Time with Pre-designed GUIs
  • Built-in Image Informatics Tools
  • Deploy Sophisticated Applications
  • First-class Development Support

QEDInVivo
Control high-speed microscope systems using an intuitive graphical workflow

Designed for life science researchers, QED InVivo offers fast and automated acquisition and analysis for live cell imaging.

Unlike other general image analysis applications, QED InVivo offers an easy-to-use graphical interface that allows you to focus on what's important - your experiment.

Key Benefits

  • Designed for Microscopy - Unlike other live cell imaging products that include layers of dialog boxes and menu items, QED InVivo offers an intuitive graphical user interface focused on what live cell imaging researchers need to see.
  • High-speed Live Cell Imaging - Events happen quickly in live cell imaging. QED InVivo offers lightning fast speed for image acquisition, device control and live analysis. It allows you to forget about what your software is doing and concentrate on your experiment.
  • Familiar User Interface - With QED InVivo, you will always know where to find the tools you need. It offers an easy-to-use and consistent look and feel, regardless of what camera or microscope hardware you are running.
  • No Scripting Needed - QED InVivo can handle complex multi-dimensional acquisition and processing without the need to write a single line of code. It will automatically optimize for speed based on hardware and user requirements. For those interested in macro customization and advanced analysis tools, consider the InVivo Analyzer Suite.
  • Live Cell Environment Control - When combined with QED ExpIO, QED InVivo offers integrated live cell environment control of temperature, pumps, valves, and more.

Array-Pro Analyzer
Automatic and reproducible results

Array-Pro Analyzer is an indispensable tool for the nascent microarray and high-throughput screening research efforts fueling the genomics, proteomics, drug discovery and bioinformatics revolution.

Key Benefits

  • Automatic & Reproducible Results
  • Automatic grid, subgrid, and spot finding overcomes tedious spot template assignment
  • Automatic alignment of grid, subgrid, and spots
  • Pixel-by-pixel cross-correlation method to segment signal, background and artifact pixels populations
  • Normalization using Loess best-fit, signal control cells, or all cells, by image or sub-grid
  • Improved candidate spot finding (for line determination) via morphological validation of spot shape
  • Option for variable cell boundary definition for each spot
  • Binning of spots for replicate analysis
  • Time-based experiments are supported via rate measurements and input of time via the file or user

Gel-Pro Analyzer
Graphically display and explore dot blot data

Gel-Pro Analyzer software increases laboratory productivity and efficiency by eliminating the time consuming steps involved in manually analyzing Southern, Northern, and Western blots, dot and slot blots, and quantitative PCR.

Gel-Pro was jointly designed by Media Cybernetics and molecular biologists for intuitive, easy-to-use analysis without compromising the features necessary to achieve meaningful results.

Key Benefits

  • Easily capture gel, microplate, or blot images
  • Acquire images via world-renowned Media Cybernetics camera drivers or TWAIN
  • Work with a variety of analysis and documentation options
  • Achieve Accuracy and Precision
  • Work with intuitive user interface based on actual laboratory protocols and terminology
  • Build exact quantitation calibration curves with amount standards
  • Recognize lanes & bands automatically & get immediate results
  • Get quantitative results using user input sample loads allocated to bands
  • Calculate unknown band Molecular Weight via standards
Comparison chart for Image-Pro Family
Comparison chart for Image-Pro Family

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