Open Microscopy Environment
Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation
OME at LOCI – Software – VisBio – Program features

VisBio v3.00
  1. Flexible data transform engine allows for a wide range of image analysis algorithms
    • Sophisticated thumbnailing support
      • Background thumbnailing allows immediate visualization
      • Each data object's thumbnails are cached in their own companion cache file in the same directory as the data object's source files
        • Cache files are portable between computers
    • Specific transforms include:
      • Arbitrary slicing transform for visualizing cross-sections of an image stack at any angle
      • Overlays transform for annotating images, including colored and grouped measurement lines, markers, boxes, ovals, arrows and text in 2D
      • Spectral mapping with weighted sliders allows visualization of complex multispectral data in a standard color space
      • Data sampling transform enables reduction in dataset size
      • Maximum intensity projection
    • Flexible export tools for creating Bio-Rad, QuickTime and TIFF data

  2. Generalized display model
    • Create up to 32 displays for visualization
    • Map any number of data objects to a display at once
    • Show multiple data views side by side
    • Powerful image stack visualization in 3D
      • Full support for pan, rotate, zoom and animation
      • Proper aspect ratio based on image size in microns
      • Pixel component mapping with user-defined color tables
      • Switch stack (Z) axis on the fly
      • Control over individual slice visibility, including mass toggling features
    • Volume rendering, for viewing the structure as a semi-transparent 3D solid
    • Movie capturing for recording movies (e.g., 3D rotation)

  3. Support for many common microscopy formats with the OME Bio-Formats package

  4. Connect to an Open Microscopy Environment database to upload and download datasets


Last update: Thursday, March 23, 2006