Definiens AG - Montpellier Rio Imaging Selects Definiens Technology to Accelerate Image Analysis Processes

Munich, Germany and Montpellier, France – February 25th, 2008 – Montpellier Rio Imaging (MRI), a activity science imaging ability amid in the Languedoc-Roussillon arena of France, has absitively to use Definiens technology. The ability is accurate by the French Ministry of Scientific Research, CNRS, INSERM, INRA, CIRAD, IRD and Montpellier University and aggregate by arch French federal analysis institutes and universities. Scientific cadre from any accessible or clandestine organizations accept acceptance to it. As requirements apropos the abundance and above of imaging grow, new solutions in angel accretion and appraisal are needed. Definiens, the amount one Enterprise Image Intelligence™ company, will now accommodate its key technology for top agreeable angel appraisal and abstracts administration to MRI.

Towards a ample calibration imaging centermost for activity science applications
With analysis activities alignment from blight and neurology to bulb science, the Languedoc-Roussillon across is awful acclaimed as a top French activity science analysis and industry center. MRI provides the environment, accessories and ability all-important for abstruse and abstruse abutment of projects that necessitate imaging technology in whatever anatomy - optical, electronic, computer processing. The ability is planning to action its arch bend accurate association a all-around automated band-aid for cell-based assays and all-embracing histopathology.

High agreeable angel appraisal and abstracts administration band-aid needed
To accompaniment a contempo investment in new image-acquisition accessories for the screening of corpuscle ability plates and scanning of analysis slides, MRI bare a new top agreeable angel appraisal and abstracts administration solution. Dr. Julien Cau, CNRS engineer, Deputy Manager in Charge of Light Microscopy, at MRI: “Our new accessories are assuming an amazing job compared to the antecedent generation, but this affectionate of technology is absurd if automated, all-embracing angel appraisal can't be performed.“

During the controlling action apropos the best of top agreeable angel appraisal and abstracts administration solutions, it became bright that alone Definiens meets all the afterward requirements:
oSpeed and performance: With the Definiens angel appraisal technology, MRI processes will be automated. Definiens Methodology aboriginal analysis and additional allocation enables advisers to focus on the across of absorption – they do not accept to appraisal the absolute slide.
oFlexibility: The Definiens belvedere was the alone individual band-aid MRI advised accordant with specific applicant requirements behindhand of activity science analysis field.
oProcessing of top aggregate files: Definiens is different in its adeptness to action abounding altered book formats, abnormally the top aggregate files produced by the latest accelerate scanners. Batch processing and job scheduling capabilities featured in the software accredit able processing.
oCentralized abstracts management: The belvedere will be centralized to allotment advice and to run from every assemblage of the facility, enabling abstracts administration above boondocks and borders.
oIntegration of MRI’s know-how: The Definiens context-based access enables MRI to accommodate its researchers’ ability into the software. Thus, invaluable ability is not absent and is accessible for added researchers.

Montpellier Rio Imaging Chief Manager Dr. Pierre Travo is absolutely confident: “Definiens solutions will play a absolute role in MRI connected efforts for the development of new casework in biological imaging."

Image 1: 16 canicule Rat antecedent (OFA IOPS), Stage 23 (Carnegie Institution classification), 7µm blubbery Sagittal section, Heidenhain abject staining.

Image: Courtesy of Professor R. Cristol-Gaubert and Professor G. Godlewski, Laboratory of Experimental Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine Montpellier - Nîmes, University Montpellier I, F 30900 Nîmes, France

Image 2: Automatic apprehension of Meckel's cartilage (Mandibular process). Automatic apprehension was performed application Definiens solution. Liver, ventriculus lateralis and blooming decrepit "dorsal side" were aboriginal automatically detected. Bone and cartilage were added detected and the Meckel's cartilage was automatically articular due to its position about to Liver, Ventriculus lateralis and "Dorsal side”.

Image: Courtesy of Professor R. Cristol-Gaubert and Professor G. Godlewski, Laboratory of Experimental Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine Montpellier - Nîmes, University Montpellier I, F 30900 Nîmes, France

About Montpellier RIO Imaging
Montpellier RIO Imaging is Languedoc – Roussillon (South of France) bounded amount imaging facility. It was created by the about-face of 2003 with the mission to accommodate ability and abutment to any bookish or automated projects (research, RD, above control, production) that necessitate ablaze and electron microscopy and cytometry and their added processing, about-face and analysis. As aboriginal as backward 2003, MRI planned a accepted development action for its equipments aiming at a cogent access in angel accretion abundance and blurred of angel assemblage amount with a specific absorption in angel accretion automation and angel appraisal ability (for data see www.mri.cnrs.fr) with an aperture appear imaging ample admeasurement objects.
In 2007, 410 users formed for 35 480 hours in angel assembly and appraisal application 43 plan stations (light microscopy, cytometry, computers) broadcast over 6 sites in Montpellier.

Definiens in Life Sciences
By automating angel appraisal on an action level, Definiens supports Life Science organizations to appraisal and adapt all-inclusive numbers of images accurately and consistently. Definiens improves the altitude of corpuscle assays, the assay of tissue samples and the estimation of non-invasive imaging, enabling high-content screening, agenda anatomy and translational medicine.

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About Definiens
Definiens is the amount one Enterprise Image Intelligence aggregation for allegory and interpreting images on every scale, from diminutive corpuscle structures to digital images. The Definiens Cognition Network Technology®, developed by Nobel laureate Prof. Gerd Binnig and his team, is an beat and able-bodied context-based technology advised to accomplish the angel appraisal requirements of the Life and Earth sciences markets. The technology is modeled on the able animal cerebral acumen processes to abstract intelligence from images. Definiens provides organizations with faster angel appraisal results, acceptance added insights enabling bigger business decisions. The aggregation is headquartered in Munich, Germany and has offices throughout the United States. Further advice is accessible at www.definiens.com.

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