Choose From a Vast
Set of Image Types and Sophisticated Enhancement Techniques
SigmaScan
Pro’s comprehensive list of image types ensures image compatibility-
including up to 16-bit grayscale images. You can convert images to
different types, paste or splice images from one type to another,
or modify pixel resolution while maintaining the aspect ration of
the image. The powerful Histogram Stretch option lets you sharpen
the contrast of color or grayscale images. Other enhancement techniques
allow you to correct background lighting effects, apply color templates
to grayscale images for highlighting hidden features or employ mathematical
filters to add, remove, erode or dilate objects on an image. Plus,
SigmaScan Pro’s Image Math functions let you remove noise and highlight
features by adding, subtracting or averaging the pixel intensities
of different images.
Quickly Convert Images
to Useful Data with Powerful Measurement Techniques
Select
from a library of more than 50 powerful measurement options to convert
images into analytical data. Separate, count and number up to 64,000
image objects using powerful built-in algorithms and collect the
data in a convenient spreadsheet where object numbers correlate
to spreadsheet row numbers. Five non-destructive overlay planes
allow you to collect measurements such as intensity, hue, saturation,
distance, perimeter, slope, angle, area, volume, and center of mass
simultaneously. Powerful edge and line tracking tools allow you
to quickly outline objects and collect running measurements, so
you save time marking the desired items. Guarantee accuracy by calibrating
distance, area and intensity values.
Develop Meaningful Conclusions
with Advanced Data Analysis Capabilities
Use built-in
column statistics to organize data and develop solid conclusions.
Automatically sort and classify your measurement results or eliminate
unwanted objects from your data. Chose from 140 worksheet functions
to transform your data, show important relationships using the plot
function or export files to advanced graphing packages such as SigmaPlot.
Powerful Image Analysis
Tools for a Wide Range of Applications
As a scientist,
engineer or technician, you’re often faced with problems that are
difficult to measure but easy to photograph. SigmaScan Pro provides
a complete PC image solution for scientists - everything from image
collection to data analysis. These powerful image analysis tools serve
a multitude of scientific applications, including: optical microscopy,
X-ray enhancement, cell counting and sorting, surface analysis, particle
distribution, printed circuit board inspection, surface flaw detection
and isolating typographic map features. And SigmaScan Pro offers complete
compatibility; you can capture images from any TWAIN-supported device.
You can open, modify and save common image files as such as BMP, JPEG,
Mac PICT, PCX, TGA and TIFF. SigmaScan Pro is also compatible with
many other file types you may encounter, including PhotoShop PSD,
EPS and RAS. Plus, SigmaScan Pro’s easy-to-use interface is designed
specifically for scientists and technicians who don’t have the time
or desire to become imaging experts - helping you quickly gain the
information you need from your images and saving you valuable research
time.
The Automatic
Choice for Counting, Measuring and Analyzing your Digital Images
SigmaScan
Pro provides a complete image analysis package for studying the
structure and size of visual information. SigmaScan Pro’s powerful
image analysis and data manipulation techniques transform images
into reliable statistics, understandable graphs and valuable scientific
conclusions. SigmaScan Pro includes an extensive list of features
that apply to a wide range of applications:
Count bacterial cells for growth studies
Measure the area of tumor cross-sections
Determine the projected area of conifer needles
Analyze intensity bands on gels
Isolate typographic map features
Characterize microstructural flaws in steel
Any other general image measurement or analysis application
SigmaScan Pro's sophisticated enhancement
techniques improve image quality and remove unwanted features, optimizing
the image to your specifications. A powerful library of more than
50 measurement options collects your results in a convenient Microsoft
® Excel spreadsheet format. Use built-in column statistics, classify
your data or choose from 140 worksheet functions to develop meaningful
conclusions. Best of all, beginners learn quickly through an intuitive
interface. SigmaScan Pro also provides the power to create custom
macros to automate repetitive tasks. Not a programmer? No problem.
Record macros with the point and click macro recorder. Experienced
users and programmers can apply the VB-based macro language to create
custom interfaces or seamlessly link SigmaScan Pro to other applications,
such as SigmaPlot
SigmaScan Pro's Automation
Features Save you Valuable Research Time
Execute a series of steps
once then apply the sequence to other images to effortlessly perform
complex analyses and data manipulation. Or, use built-in macros as
provided or modify them for automating tasks such as counting and
measuring objects, or splicing images.
Employ SigmaScan Pro's Online Macro Language Reference, which provides
a complete overview of all macro commands and their functions, to
develop powerful macros that save valuable research time.
Access SigmaScan Pro
Seamlessly
Call
on SigmaScan Pro’s functionality from external sources that have
Visual Basic embedded, including Microsoft Word and Excel or custom
software applications. For example, you can run a Visual Basic script
in MS Word or Excel that calls on SigmaScan Pro to perform image
analysis tasks. SigmaScan Pro’s OLE automation provides unlimited
flexibility.
