Organize by experiment and research subject

When you first install Mayachitra imago, it displays an album viewer. You will create albums and organize the images within imago. You can browse all microscopic images in your hard drive and import them into albums. Mayachitra imago works independently from any imaging device. You can manage multiple image types (including Fluoview TIFF, OME TIFF, and MetaMorph STK) and the associated metadata in a single place. All different microscopic images can be stored in one, easy to use interface.

Smart Albums

Smart Albums provides you a way to create a virtual group of images collected from multiple albums in imago. You can make a Smart Album that contains only certain types of images, images with cell analysis results, or images that match other criteria. Smart Albums displays images without actually copying the images; it is like a playlist for images. When you delete images from Smart Albums, the original images remain in Albums. Additionally, imago automatically updates Smart Albums; any images matching the Smart Album's setting will be added to the album.

Create your own tags

It is easy to create a large set of microscopic images. Mayachitra imago give you a more flexible way to organize them according to experiment type, species, and antibody used. You can create your own set of tags that you are interested in. You can easily remove, add, or modify tags.

Organize images by publication

Are you looking for images used in the paper published in 2007? It is easy with Mayachitra imago. Add a publication tag to the set of images. imago also maintains the link between modified image for publication and the original image.

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Annotate and measure easily

With imago, you can measure length, perimeter, area, and count cells from an image. Of course, imago will save all measurements. You can draw the interesting region on your image and create a mask from the region.

Create a publication-ready figure

Creating a figure for publication is easy with imago. Add a scale bar, text box, and arrowheads. Choose color, font, and position of annotation and export the figure for the publication.

Manual counting

imago provides manual counting tool as well as automatic counting. Click the image with a counting tool and imago tracks the number of clicks. The total count is displayed when you move mouse over any of clicks.

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Adjust with caution

Image enhancement is beneficial when done for appropriate reason. Mayachitra imago treats your image as a quantitative data. All changes made in an image are recorded while preserving its original image throughout the process. The change you make can be only viewed in imago until you export or save the image with its changes.

imago features a set image enhancement tools to improve the quality of your microscopic images. Open the Effects pane and click the thumbnail image to remove noises, to sharpen images, to enhance the contrast, or to create a binary image. Simple and one-click effects will make the image enhancement fun and easy.

Maintain record of changes applied

imago maintain the history of changes applied to the image. All adjustments are reproducible. You can easily archive the original image,its enhanced image, and the record of the changes made.

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Analyze automatically

Now your all images are organized in Mayachitra imago. You can analyze them with imago's analysis tools. Experience how easily you can count cells, segment regions, and create a mosaicked images. Image analysis results (e.g. cell counts, area, or average intensity) are stored in imago. With a single click, you can also export the analysis results as a comma-separated values format (.CSV) so you can do further analysis with Numbers or Microsoft Excel. imago also help you to search your images by analysis result.

Register your images automatically

Mosaic 369 images? Try imago. imago's innovative registration tool not only puts images together, but also blends abutting edges between the images while preserving the original data. The resulting large photo realistic mosaic is ready for further quantitative analysis. No parameter tuning is needed, nor any ordering of the images themselves. If you collect images using a motorized stage, imago will surely take advantage of extra information (e. g. log file from a microscope) to speed up mosaicking.

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Learn more about automatic mosaicking

Count cells automatically

Mayachitra imago's automatic nuclei detector is an image based powerful cell counter. It automatically identifies nuclei's centroid locations from the selected image and provides you the total number of cells and their location information. imago's nuclei detector is incredibly simple to use yet powerful and robust method to analyze large sets of digital micrographs. Additionally, you can easily move, add, or remove cell locations with imago's graphical annotation tool. imago also keeps track of the history of modification.

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Learn more about nuclei detector

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Analyze cells automatically

Mayachitra imago features interactive segmentation method that segregates the background from the foreground, given the information provided by you. You don't need to guess any parameters. All you need to do is to provide a few scribbles indicating foreground (e.g. cells or tissue) and background. The segmentation result is updated dynamically as a scribble is added or removed. Of course, you can modify the segmentation result using brush and eraser tool. After refinement, imago computes the properties of individual cells such as area, perimeter, and average intensity.

Learn more about interactive cell analysis

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Browse effectively

imago's image viewer provides you with an effective way to browse through the stack. There are different types of stacks: time lapse stack, z-stack (sequential optical cut through the same tissue), and combination of the both time and z. imago's image viewer help you to view all slices in a stack with its metadata (e.g. the number of z or t slices, the number of channels, and pixel resolution).

Work with each slice or an entire stack

When it comes to working with stacks, imago offers you flexible tools. You can annotate and measure an interesting part of tissue on a single slice or an entire stack. Annotating and visually analyzing a stack is as easy as a single image.

If you want to count cells from one slice and creating a binary image from the other slice, there is no problem with imago. You don't need to remember which analysis function is applied to which slice. imago keeps track of all operations. You can browse all annotations, measurements and analysis results you made by moving z- or t- slider. Of course, imago features powerful search tools to help you to find any slice with any changes you made quickly.

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Search quickly

Search the image you want to work with in one place by image name, annotation, your own tags, image content, or any combination of the above. You can spend more time analyzing and learning from images. Mayachitra imago helps you to organize your images by experiment based on search results. Search results can be easily grouped into a data set by user tags.

Search by analysis result

imago helps you to explore your images with analysis result. Want to search all images with cell counting result? "Search by analysis result" lets you find your images by cell counts, density, and date/time of analysis. If you don't know exact cell counts, you can still find your images by specifying the range of value (e.g. counts ≥ 300).

Search by publication tag

Publication information is often important subject. But it is difficult to find images that have been published and their original images without going through your entire albums. imago introduces you Publication tag that allows you to link your images with publications. Now you can find images by a paper title or publication date.

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