By Diagnostics World Staff
July 8, 2015 | Definiens has launched Tissue Studio 4.1,
offering faster throughput for tissue image analysis, powerful machine learning,
and the ability to automate routine image analysis tasks, enabling researchers
to develop a customized image analysis solution in as little as twenty minutes,
and reduce preclinical safety and toxicity study lengths from weeks to just
days.
“Researchers have a need to obtain the best data for basic
discovery and research as quickly as possible,” said Merrilyn Datta, president
of Definiens, in a statement. “In addition to Definiens’ biomarker and clinical
development services, Tissue Studio 4.1 provides scientists with an
out-of-the-box solution that enables comprehensive and consistent data from any
tissue-based assay and can handle complex tasks such as biological
heterogeneity and staining variation; with Tissue Studio 4.1, the software now
provides this information even faster.”
Image analysis enables researchers to automate tedious
manual analysis, produces quantitative readouts that can be mined and
correlated, and simplifies analysis tasks and workflows. Adding to these
standard benefits, Tissue Studio uniquely overcomes inherent biological and
staining variability to accurately detect regions of interest and distinguish
cell types and cell subtypes within target regions across any number of tissue
slides. Tissue Studio 4.1 brings powerful speed and efficiency improvements to
the solution of choice for image analysis in research and drug discovery on
tissue samples.
- Updated Processing Workflow and Faster
Throughput: Facilitates two-fold faster image analysis compared to
previous Tissue Studio versions, enabling researchers to analyze significantly
more slides per day. This improvement in processing speed will provide Tissue
Studio users with the ability to double their throughput in order to meet
aggressive deadlines for research grants, publication review or project
report-outs.
- Dual Stain Support: Enables researchers to
answer complex questions with fewer slides using single and dual stain with any
chromogen for ISH and vessel staining, in addition to IHC. The ability to
analyze dual staining is important for several indications such as
immunotherapy research, oncology and diabetes, where the utilization of
multiple stains on one sample is commonly utilized.
- Automatic Alignment and Analysis of Regions on
Tissue Images: Enables researchers to automatically transfer regions
selected on one stain to co-registered consecutive slides from one sample block.
This allows for faster throughput and more accurate results for data analysis
within regions and is of particular value when analyzing immune response and
the tumor microenvironment.