Microscope software suite, ”DeltaPix InSight”
Comprehensive and advanced, but intuitive and easy to use Microscope Software Suite for measurement, analysis, and control of microscopes, cameras, stages, and other connected equipment. The software is built by a basic package (free with all DeltaPix cameras) with optional modules for special functions, in order for the user only to get the functions required for the specific application
InSight Basic
Extended Focus, Exposure And Manual Stitching
Automation, Stage And Microscope Control
3D topography and Roughness measurement
Segmentation, Counting and Multiphase Analysis
Microscope And Stage Interface
Modern user interface
DeltaPix InSight has a modern and intuitive user interface based on the ribbon band style known from Microsoft Office 2010/2016. Functionality has been grouped logically, and the program is easy to use. DeltaPix InSight is a modular software allowing the operator to purchase modules as needed making DeltaPix InSight very efficient and affordable.
Each optical device, objective, and camera can be calibrated individually. In this way, several microscopes and other optical systems can be managed by the same software installation. Calibrations can be private or shared among all users of the computer.
Measurement and Annotation
Measurement and annotation are an important part of any quality control process. Obtain precise reproducible results through a variety of features found in DeltaPix InSight: • Ruler • Ellipse • Protractor • Three-point circle • Circle center distance • Point to line distance
Measurements can be done on still images or directly on the live camera image. Measurement precision and the measuring unit can be selected individually. A scale bar can automatically be inserted into images. By calibrating the optics in high-resolution mode, precision to fractions of a µm can be achieved. For each objective, the Depth-of-Field and the preferred fixed or relative exposure time can be defined.
Reporting
Measurement results and images can easily be exported to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. This allows further data processing in a flexible way. Furthermore, the report can be automatically converted to a PDF report. The reporting does not require the installation of Microsoft Excel or a PDF writer. A measurement data from multiple object measurements can be appended into one flat comma-separated file for statistical use.
DeltaPix InSight Modules
DeltaPix InSight offers a range of additional software modules for specific applications. This allows you to tailor your software and microscope system into a dedicated high-performance tool for current and future challenges.
Extended Focus, Exposure, and Manual Stitching
InSight has a state of the art Extended Focus function. Both manual and automatic Extended Focus is possible. The automatic function uses the focus motor automation. Extended Focus function can combine images at different focus levels into one single sharp image.
Extended Exposure
Stitching
With its intuitive user interface both automatic and manual stitching of single captured images, can be performed fast and precise with DeltaPix InSight.
DeltaPix motorization modules make it is possible to add automatization and control for XY, focus, and zoom motors. The motorization modules can be combined with other software modules to allow the user to perform automated tasks like Extended Focus images with up to 250 focus positions, 3D topography of a sample surface, do scanning, time-lapse recording in up to 100 positions, looped image acquisition, and much more.
Roughness Measurement
DeltaPix InSight offers a non-contact roughness measurement according to guidelines of ISO 25178-2:2012.
The software can be applied in various applications where surface textures need to be analyzed. The implementation of surface roughness measurement is based on the data collected from topography analysis thus the need for a third party adds on software is eliminated for most applications.
The data shown in a panel in the lower right corner is the results of the Roughness 3D calculations.
Sq: Root mean square height of the surface
Ssk: Skewness of the surface
Sku: Kurtosis of the surface
Sp: Maximum peak height of the surface
Sv: Maximum pit height of the surface
Sz: Maximum height of the surface
Sa: Arithmetical mean height of the surface
The corresponding 2D parameters can also be calculated.
Rq: Root mean square height over the evaluation length.
Rsk: Skewness over the evaluation length.
Rku: Kurtosis over the evaluation length.
Rp: Maximum peak height over the evaluation length.
Rv: Maximum pit height over the evaluation length.
Rz: Maximum height over the evaluation length.
Ra: Arithmetical mean height over the evaluation length.
Additionally, The ISO 25178-2 volume parameters (aka. Bearing ratio curve parameters) can be calculated. These parameters are based on the Abbott-Firestone curve. This includes the
Vmp, Material peak volume
Vmc, Material core volume
Vvc, Void core volume
Vvv. Void valley volume
The roughness parameters are easily exported to an Excel spreadsheet along with rendered 2D/3D images.
The Multiphase counting module can utilize up to four phases.
A counting phase is defined by a set of features, like RGB color range and geometrical features.
Preprocessing operations can be done using morphological erode or dilate operations.
Object discrimination is be done using the geometrical features area, M1, and Ferret minimum/maximum distance. The geometrical features can be:
- Individual for each phase. This makes counting of objects with different geometrical features possible.
- This means that all phases use the same geometrical features. Used when counting objects only segmented by color.
For multiphase counting, an area percentage of each object is calculated, this makes multiphase percentage calculations easy.
The setup is easy and intuitive with interactive fake-color marking of counted objects and an indication of rejected objects.
The counting result can be exported to an Excel spreadsheet for further processing and analysis. The Excel report generator does not require the installation of Excel.
PDF reports can also be generated directly.
All settings can be saved in a dedicated workspace – this makes switching between different counting scenarios quick and easy.
Minimum System requirements:
• Intel I5 (quad core) CPU • 4 GB of RAM • 15 GB of free disk space • Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 • A high-resolution monitor DeltaPix InSight works with Windows 32 and 64-bit versions.
Recommended System requirements:
• Intel I7 6th gen or newer • 8 GB of RAM or more • SSD drive 120GB or more • Graphic Card Nvidia GT 1030 or better • Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 • A high-resolution monitor DeltaPix InSight works with Windows 32 and 64-bit versions.