Behavioural
study and analysisStudy and analysis of laboratory animal behaviour (rats, mice). This involves:
- Real time traching of the animal's location and displacement (position, distance from defined points...).
- Real time determination of animal posture (sitting, upright, on hind legs up against a wall...).
Cell
counting and measurementDetermination of the surface area, circumference, position and number of cells. Tracking in real time the morphology and movement of marked cells.
Classification
of bacterial cultures by chromatographyIdentification of bacterial culture by color using chromatography techniques, involves:
- Automatic identification of the region to be analysed.
- Automatic identification and grouping of cultures by their color in each region.
- Elimination of extraneous features (surrounding bubbles).
- Automatic centralisation of the plate of analysis.
Analysis
of sedimentary core samples
Software designed for geographical an petroleum applications in the analysis
of oceanic and continental sedimentary core samples. This involves:
- Driving a motorised analysis table to recompose an entire image of the
core samples taken by X-ray radiography.
- Processing the images to detect the sedimentary layers.
- Detecting traces left by biological organisms.
Tracking
of eye motion Real time tracking (50 images/sec) and study of the motion of both eyes, involves:
- Automatic search and find of the pupil center.
- Determination of the eye center trajectory in X and Y coordinates, giving 50 points per second.
- Robust algorithm to partially closed and blinking eyes.
Analysis
of skin marks
Acquisition of color images of skin lesions using a Kodak digital camera, involves:
- Analyse of the morphology and color of skin marks.
- Tracking the evolution over time of different lesions of the same patient.
Mapping
neural networks
A range of software programs designed for the neurological sciences, includes:
- Acquisition of color images of brain sections seens through a microscope, each identified by a displacement of X, Y and Z to produce a neural map.
- Reconstitution of the images from a defined point to visualise the neural links to the resolution of the cut depth.
- Export images to Photoshop and Freehand.
- Juxtaposition of images to reconstruct and entire cross selection.
- Removal of extraneous objects and manual retouching of image.
- Mapping of zones of interest.
- Drawing the contours of structures visible under the microscope
- RS-232 control over the microscope settings and plate position on a motorised stage.
Thin
plate chromatographyA dedicaced range o software ideal for analysing 2D thin layer chromatography plates giving the user the ability to automatically identify and qualify the constituent components of the sample. This involves:
- Automatic identification of the migration strip.
- Differenciation between the control and test trip.
- Automatic determination of the primary spots.
- Measurement of the migration parameters of the secondary spots.
- Calculation of the surface area of the secondary spots with respect to that of the primary spots.
Culture
counting in Petri dishes
Acquisition of high resolution images of Petri dishes containing the cultures to be counted, using an image resolution of 1280x1024, 10 bits pixels. Involves:
- Counting of colonies.
- Automatic detection of the dish limits.
- Differentiating the colonies by their size, and their density by their gray level.
- Regulating the differentiation thresholds.
- Recording the final results for further statiscal analysis.
Analysis
of cell "comets"Software used in cell biology to quantify "comets" obtained by electrophoresis, involves:
- Acquiring high resolution images of the cell's DNA, following the destruction of the cell nucleus by electrophoresis forming a shape like a comet 'resolution 1280x1024, 10 bits pixels)
- Measuring the morphological parameters of the "comet" (head and tail).
- Identification of the principal axis of the "comet"
- Calculation of the surface ratio of the head and tail.
- Integrating the image density along the principal axis.
- Recording the final results for further statiscal analysis.