GE Healthcare has launched IN Cell Investigator v1.5 software, the latest addition to the Investigator range of image analysis tools for automated high-content analysis of live and fixed cells.
The new features of the software provide users with increased flexibility, meeting the needs of a wide range of image analysis activities in sub-cellular research and screening.
In addition to building on more than 50 validated applications, the features of IN Cell Investigator v1.5 enable: the generation of a panoramic image through image stitching of overlapping images for analysis of whole wells, larger cell populations and model organisms; texture analysis for deeper insight into results, particularly for toxicology and cell cycle; 3D-angiogenic tubules formation analysis; de-clumping of heavily clustered colonies and populations containing binucleated cells, providing greater insight into stem-cell colony analysis; and cell feature tracking to get a temporal perspective of cellular processes.
'The extended focus transformation feature has changed the way we conduct Drosophila fly brain analysis, enabling us to detect and analyse neurites in thick samples and obviating the need to perform such analyses using confocal microscopy,' says Sebastian Munck from the Light Microscopy and Imaging Network at Leuven University, Belgium.
'The image stitching feature of the IN Cell Investigator v1.5 is also very useful for applications such as small animal imaging, tissue fragments and culture imaging,' he added.
In conjunction with the IN Cell Miner software, Investigator v1.5 offers a fully integrated solution for image analysis, data management and visualisation that can be used with all IN Cell analyser systems from GE Healthcare, including the recently-launched IN Cell Analyzer 2000.
Additional options of the software allow integration of high-content data from the IN Cell Analyzer with other third-party sources.
Technical support is available for IN Cell Investigator v1.5, including onsite training courses and customised training based on individual requirements.
