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VideoTesT has developed native drivers which support the direct camera control of the following ProgRes® microscope cameras

Particularities of ProgRes® camera applications

Undoubtedly, Jenoptik offers a wide range of cameras – the ProgRes® series. Therefore VideoTesT is able to complete its own software with the dedicated ProgRes® cameras. The ProgRes® cameras have the good quality in combination with the competitive price.

ProgRes® CT3

The key advantages of this model are:

Real-time AVI recording with the frame rate not lower than 50 frames per second in b/w mode without loss of resolution (joint development of Jenoptik and VideoTesT).
Possibility to work with stained static slides of biological specimen
Ability to work using general microscopy without luminescence mode
Economic price

We recommend and use the ProgRes® CT3 to complete both VideoTesT-Sperm and VideoTesT-Morphology image analysis systems, in particular if high speed dynamic objects analysis is required.

ProgRes® C3 and ProgRes® C5

The key advantages of these models are:

Relatively high resolution
Possibility to work with stained static slides of biological specimen
Ability to work using luminescence microscopy mode (green color range)
Relatively economic price

We recommend and use the ProgRes® C3 and ProgRes® C5 to complete VideoTesT-Size, VideoTesT-Morphology, VideoTesT-Forensic Pro and VideoTesT-Structure image analysis systems, when color objects analysis is required.

ProgRes® CF

The key advantages of this model are:

Very accurate color correspondence (12bit Analogue-to-Digital Conversion), in particular in blue-violet color range
Maximal frame capturing rate without image quality loss
Ability to work with full luminescence ranges, or images in blue/violet color range should be analyzed

We recommend and use the ProgRes® CF to complete VideoTesT-Size, VideoTesT-Morphology, VideoTesT-Forensic Pro and VideoTesT-Structure image analysis systems, when color objects analysis is required.
Moreover, ProgRes® CF is the only ProgRes® camera which is suitable to complete the fully automatic image analysis system VideoTesT-Blood Count thanks to very detailed color rendering of blood cells.

ProgRes CFscan

The key advantages of this model are:

Very accurate color correspondence (14bit Analogue-to-Digital Conversion)
Extremely large resolution

We recommend and use the ProgRes® CFscan to complete VideoTesT-Morphology image analysis system, when very small objects on specimen should be measured by size.

ProgRes® MF

The key advantages of this model are:

Monochrome CCD sensor for detailed objects brightness measurements
Maximal exposure time up to 180s for low signal detection

We recommend and use the ProgRes® MF to complete VideoTesT-Karyo image analysis system for detailed chromosome banding recognition, VideoTesT-Morphology image analysis system for cells optical density measurements, VideoTesT-Structure image analysis system for different tasks, when color analysis is not required and VideoTesT-Metal image analysis system for careful analysis of non-inclusions by brightness differences.

ProgRes® MFcool

The key advantages of this model are:

Monochrome CCD sensor for detailed objects brightness measurements
Maximal exposure time up to 300s for low signal detection
Cooling option for working with low-light specimen with low-noise long-term exposure

We recommend and use the ProgRes® MFcool to complete both VideoTesT-FISH and VideoTesT-CGH image analysis systems, where low-light specimen is required to analyze.

Information about VideoTesT software

Special Image Analysis Software “VideoTesT” for human and animal reproductology

The software is applied in clinics, which in reproductology area, in particular male infertility problem are specialized.

VideoTesT-Sperm – for sperm motility and morphology evaluation
Key features:

Real-time recording of native sperm ejaculates to .avi file with frame rate up to 50 fps
Automated detection and tracking of spermatozoa. Individual tracks can be shown on the last frame
Estimation of concentration (in M/ml - millions pro milliliter)
Motility analysis of spermatozoa, classification by standard motility classes
Estimation of velocity parameters, recommended by WHO
Possibility to analyze morphology of human spermatozoa
Saving analysis results to a built-in database
Printing out customizable report

VideoTesT-Zoosperm – for bull sperm motility analysis with the calculation of insemination doses
Key features:

Real-time recording of native sperm ejaculates to .avi file with frame rate up to 50 fps.
Automated detection and tracking of bulls spermatozoa using special algorithm of bull sperm detection. Individual tracks can be shown on the last frame.
Estimation of concentration (in M/ml - millions pro milliliter).
Motility analysis of spermatozoa, classification by standard motility classes.
Estimation of velocity parameters
Calculation of insemination doses
Saving analysis results to a built-in database
Printing out customizable report

Special Image Analysis Software “VideoTesT” for Cytogenetics

This software is used in prenatal diagnostics centers for detection and evaluation hereditary diseases risks caused by chromosomes abnormalities.

VideoTesT-Karyo – for automation of karyotyping procedure
Key features:

Ability to work with G, Q and R-banded chromosomes
Metaphase images enhancement
Automated separation of touched and overlapping chromosomes
Automatic karyotyping by banding pattern, chromosome length and centromere position
Built-in database of human, animals and plants standard ideograms
Images and data export to built-in database
Printing out customizable report
Ability of automatic karyotyping of pig chromosomes

VideoTesT-FISH – to automate fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH) analysis procedure
Key features:

Ability of working with an unlimited number of color channels
Automatic generation composed color images
Correction of optical image shift caused by filter exchange
Linear measurements in real values
Automatic karyotyping of human chromosomes on DAPI-images
Image annotation
Saving analysis results to a built-in database
Printing out customizable report

VideoTesT-CGH is applied to automate the CGH analysis procedure. Comparative Genomic Hybridization or CGH is a cytogenetic technique developed for detecting of chromosome aberrations
Key features:

Calculation of the fluorescence coefficient which reflects the fluorescence signal intensity ratio (test DNA to control DNA) and receiving the false color image by the calculated ratio
Automatically creation of karyogram and display standard chromosome ideograms
Visualization of the areas with DNA deletions and amplifications on the chromosomes.
Building fluorescence signal ratio profiles for each chromosome
Image annotation
Saving analysis results to a built-in database
Printing out customizable report

Special Image Analysis Software “VideoTesT” for haematology

VideoTesT-Blood Count is used to automate blood cells specimen procedure. This software consisting of fully automated image analysis system is used in clinicodiagnostics laboratories of both clinics and hospitals.
Key features:

Automatic scanning of blood slides specimen
Counting of white blood cells formula
Analysis of red blood cells size with the ability to build the Price-Jones curve
Counting approximate number of thrombocytes by Fonio
Poikilocytosis estimation
Saving analysis results to a built-in database, printing out
Built-in atlas of blood cells under the different pathologies
Ability to analyze blood cells of dogs

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Images Analysis Software “VideoTesT” for general morphological analysis in medicine and biology

VideoTesT-Morphology is applied of automatic image analysis of biological specimens. It is used as in research laboratories for different exploring task as in practice: in clinicodiagnostic laboratories of clinics and hospitals for routine cytological, histological, immunohistochemical and others studies.
The software has a several ready made routines. The routines allow thresholding, measuring, classify and get a statistics.
Ready-made routines:

Archiving
Image quality enhancement
Objects parameters distribution
Stereometrical analysis of tissue
Percent number of objects
Extended focus
Stitching of “living” images
Manual measurements of objects
Densitometry
Time variation

Moreover, several additional routines have been developed according request of our customers:

DNA ploidy analysis
Nuclear cytoplasmatic ratio
Reticulocyte ranking
Counting of “living” and “dead” yeast cells
Colony count
3D Reconstruction of images by brightness
Brightness profile analysis

Universal Images Analysis Software “VideoTesT” for documentation and simplest measurements

VideoTesT-Album – simplest and effective software for image documentation.
Key features:

Direct image capturing
Image archiving
Image quality enhancement by set of morphological filters
Image annotation
Saving images and text information to built-in database
Data sorting and sorting
Report making and printing

VideoTesT-Size – for image documentation tasks and simple measuring
Key features:

Stitching of «living» images:
Extended focus
Linear and angle measurements in real values.
Measurements of objects, pointed on image interactively (area, size, form factors topology, brightness, optical density, color, movement and customer parameters).
Data table export to MS Excel
+ All features of VideoTesT-Album

Image Analysis Software “VideoTesT” for criminalistics

VideoTesT-Forensic Pro is used in criminalistics laboratories for dactyloscopic, trasological examinations, examinations of documents and securities.
Key features:

Image quality enhancement
Image comparing by overlapping, traces and brightness profiles
FFT transformations
Linear and angle measurements in real values
Ability of recording all operations, performed under the images

Images Analysis Software “VideoTesT” for material science

VideoTesT-Structure is used for wide research and applied task solutions in the area of geology, metallurgy, ceramics, nanotechnologies and many others.
Ready-made routines:

Archiving
Image quality enhancement
Grain size
Phase analysis
Porosity
Percent number of objects
Extended Focus
Stitching of “living” objects
Manual measurements

Additional routines:

3D Reconstruction of images by brightness
Brightness profile analysis
Structures homogeneity evaluation

VideoTesT-Metal – is used in central factory laboratories and research laboratories in material science. It is designed for quality estimation of metals and alloys in accordance with international standards (ASTM, ISO, DIN and SEP).

Grain Size (ASTM 1382, E 930, E 122, E 112; ISO 643)
Non-metallic inclusions (ASTM 1245, E 45, E 1122; ISO 4967; DIN 50602)
Graphite inclusions in cast iron (ASTM A 247)
Phase analysis
Depth of Layer Detection (ISO 3887)
Microhardness (ASTM E 384, E92)
Carbide Segregation SEP 1520