Image-Pro Plus Specifications

	Fast, Accurate, & Easy to Use Image-Pro Plus From Media Cybernetics The Leader in Image Analysis Click here for a full feature listing on Image-Pro version 4.5 (PDF format).
Image-Pro Plus is the proven solution that makes your job easier and you more productive. Whether your job involves failure analysis, analyzing particle distribution of ceramic material, performing live / dead cell assays, analyzing tissue sections, or any of hundreds of other applications where you need to acquire and analyze images, you can count on Image-Pro Plus for the solution to your image analysis needs.
	Image-Pro Plus provides an easy way to acquire, process, and analyze images on a single machine or across an entire network. Image-Pro Plus comes complete with point-and-click simplicity, intuitive interface, and the ability to integrate text, data, and graphics into one package. A Visual Basic compatible macro language allows for easy customization of Image-Pro Plus to meet your specific imaging needs. And Image-Pro Plus delivers all the powerful functionality you'll ever need at a price you can afford.
In addition, the Media Cybernetics Solutions Zone web site at www.solutions-zone.com is a searchable database of free modules, advanced solutions, and links to compatible products, manufacturers, and consultants. This database automatically connects you to the largest network of imaging software users in the world, all supporting applications using the Image-Pro Plus platform. You can also communicate directly with hundreds of your colleagues via the Image-Pro Plus email Users Group, a great forum to discuss image analysis techniques with other experts in your industry. Image-Pro Plus is backed by a worldwide dealer network that provides personalized support wherever you are. These trained professionals are available to assist you with individual application, configuration, and technical questions. Click here to see the additional features in the new Image-Pro Version 4.5. CAPTURE Acquire images easily from video, digital cameras, scanners, scientific instruments and image databases. Comprehensive file format and device support, including support for today's most advanced digital cameras, sophisticated image capture cards, TWAIN, Video-for-Windows (VFW), and scanner devices, provide unparalleled compatibility between Image-Pro Plus and other applications and devices. Visit Media Cybernetics' driver support page for the latest list of supported acquisition hardware. Capture and process a sequence of images using the sequencer tool. Use the Sequencer to easily acquire, create, and playback a sequence of images. The improved Sequencer contains additional playback options and the ability to delete or add frames anywhere in a sequence. It is fully integrated and supports all Image-Pro Plus Filters. Use one program for all your color and gray scale imaging needs. Image-Pro provides full support of 8-, 12-, and 16-bit gray scale and 24-, 36-, and 48-bit color images, as well as, 32-bit floating point images. Work more effectively with color images. Color segmentation tools allow you to interactively separate objects or features from the background based on color characteristics using a new histogram-based tab dialog. In addition, a color-cube based color separation tab dialog allows you to create multiple ranges and select colors for each range. With these tools, you can select and apply multiple color ranges from either the histogram or color-cube dialogs. PROCESS Process images to guarantee high quality, accuracy and reproducible results. Use equalization, background subtraction, correction, and field flattening methods to enhance images. Filtering functions will sharpen, soften, blur, or enhance edges. Separate touching or overlapping objects, and perform morphometric processing. Execute complex image manipulations that are possible only in the frequency domain with high-speed Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) operations. MEASURE Use Image-Pro Plus for simple manual measurements to complex automated measurements. Absolute spatial calibration, closely coupled with your image acquisition device, assures the most accurate measurement data. Advanced filtering and segmentation techniques help separate overlapping objects, complete grain boundaries, and recognize clusters. Once segmented, each grouping can be color-coded for quick visual identification and class verification. You'll be able to easily acquire an image of an object, define features in the sample, and automatically take measurements on selected features such as best-fit arc, best-fit circle, and best-fit line. Unlike manual or other tedious methods, Image-Pro Plus will quickly calculate length, radius, diameter, and distance between feature measurements. In addition, optional pass/fail measurement routines can be recorded in a macro for future playback. Once these macros are recorded, Image-Pro Plus plays them back whenever needed making it easier and much faster to perform quality assurance testing. Image-Pro Plus' Caliper tool detects edges, measures distances, and more. The Caliper tool allows you to automatically locate edges along straight or irregular lines and circles. No longer having to rely on manual methods, this tool can automatically detect and measure distances between edges. In addition, the number of edges or spans between edges can be reported, making any changes or defects easily identifiable. Add densitometry with the click of a mouse. Whether you need absorption or reflection measurements, Image-Pro Plus performs equally well. Our calibration routine takes into account of all your system variables, providing true absolute optical density measurements. ANALYZE Test, compare and visualize your data for maximum results. Collect and visualize your data using scattergrams, histograms, line profiles, and psuedocolor. Image-Pro's solutions don't stop there. You can also add, subtract, or mask images with Boolean or arithmetic functions, or use powerful geometric transforms for spatial manipulations. For convenient archiving, documentation and further statistical analyses, send results to Excel or other spreadsheets via Direct Data Export. View image intensity in 3-D. For improved data visualization, the Surface Plot tool allows you to display image intensity in a full color 3-dimensional plot. With this tool, you can rotate, tilt, colorize, and wireframe the plots to aid in data visualization, and the plot can easily be exported to the Report Generator or your printer. ARCHIVE Organize your images and data more efficiently. The built-in Image-Pro Plus Database provides you with a powerful tool for acquiring, organizing, storing, retrieving, and sending your images. The Query Records dialog allows you to perform a search with multiple parameters. Data entry is easy with the new drop-down choices, which can be pre-defined or expandable by the user. User-defined custom data fields can attach your specific measurement analysis and data to each image record. Annotate your image with non-destructive overlays, which can be saved with the image and recalled later. COMMUNICATE Let Image-Pro Plus connect you to the rest of the world. Share your images and data with your colleagues on the Internet within the Image-Pro Plus application. Communicate easily and quickly with popular word processors, spreadsheets, publishing environments, and electronic media. Produce professional documents and research reports. For printed output, the Report Generator allows you to create custom formatted reports with images, data, and text. Images can be inserted into your reports with or without overlay data. In addition, images, data, and text are easily sized and formatted to your specifications. CUSTOMIZE Build customized applications and automate functions with the included Auto-Pro macro creation features. These powerful built-in functions let you compress lengthy operational sequences into a single key-stroke or mouse click, so you can complete your projects faster. Record sessions and play them back. Integrate and customize macros with Visual Basic or Visual C++ to build applications to solve your specific imaging needs. Extend and customize Image-Pro Plus to fit your needs with the freely available SDK. The Image-Pro Plus Software Development Kit (SDK) offers a powerful development environment for OEMs, systems integrators, and end-user/programmers to create tailored versions of the industry standard application for analytical imaging. Unlike programming toolkits, the SDK offers a proven host environment that can be easily and quickly customized to solve specific imaging applications without starting from scratch, thereby reducing development risk and cost. SPECIALIZED APPLICATIONS To better serve the needs of specific applications, our packaged products and plug-ins will take you from installation to critical answers in the shortest time possible. These products and plug-ins are written in terms commonly used by actual practitioners and follow typical lab protocols. Contact Image Processing Solutions for information on our application-specific solutions and the name of a dealer near you. Click here to see the additional features in the new Image-Pro Version 4.5. SharpStack® Plug-in Unlike other deconvolution solutions, SharpStack integrates seamlessly with image capture, 2D processing, analysis and reporting within the world's most popular image analysis software. 3D Constructor® Plug-in 3D reconstruction and visualization can expose hidden relationships within and among objects. 3D Constructor brings this power to researchers through a visualization workspace integrated into the Image-Pro Plus environment. Materials-Pro® Plug-in Materials-Pro®, the materials analysis plug-in module for Image-Pro Plus, is designed for industrial materials scientists and technicians who need improved solutions for quality control and product development. Scope-Pro® Plug-in Scope-Pro® is designed for Image-Pro Plus users who want to control and program the movement of their automated microscope, stage, filter wheels, etc. AFA® Plug-in AFA® is designed for Image-Pro Plus users who want an automated and simple method to acquire fluorescent images. AFA simplifies the acquisition of multichannel images of multicolored fluorescent samples, including Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridization (FISH) and Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP), among others. Gel-Pro® Analyzer Gel-Pro® Analyzer 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.