[FILM-Users 00347] Definiens training course

[Martin Spitaler]

Dear microscopists,

   I'm very pleased to let you know that we have recently been 
successful with an application for the College's "equipment sharing 
grant", and part of of the money will pay towards two training courses 
for the powerful Definiens Developer XD software, one for beginners and 
one for advanced users. This will mean that both training courses will 
be available at a subsidised rate of probably ~£200-300 per participants 
(rates still need to be finalised, also dependent on the number of 
participants).

  Many of you have already used the Definiens software for a range of 
challenging image analysis tasks, from finding vesicles in noisy 
confocal images to identifying cells in 3D datasets, multi-parameter 
analysis of muscle fibres to immunological synapses. The power of the 
software lies in the easy access to a large range of professional image 
analysis and computer vision tools - with full control of all parameters 
- and in a dedicated architecture for large-scale batch processing (the 
largest dataset so far consisted of >30,000 images). It also contains 
tools for cell tracking, fuzzy logics and machine learning, which might 
be covered in the advanced course - this will depend on user demand.

   Please let me know if you are interested in attending either of the 
two training courses. And if you are not sure -  if there is enough 
interest to learn more about the software, we could use the May FILM 
Club (31st of May) to give you an overview, based on projects in FILM.

Good imaging,

Martin
PS: other improvements covered by the Equipment Sharing Grant are 
upgrades to our Widefield 2 microscope (64bit computer to deal with 
larger data files for live imaging, RGB camera for histological 
sections) and a new data processing server, which will allow processing 
of much larger datasets
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*Martin Spitaler, PhD*

*FILM - Facility for Imaging by Light Microscopy*
- Facility Manager -
Sir Alexander Fleming Building, desk 401
Imperial College London / South Kensington
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London SW7 2AZ
UK

Tel. +44-(0)20-759-42023
E-mail m.spitaler at imperial.ac.uk <mailto:m.spitaler at imperial.ac.uk>
Website: http://imperial.ac.uk/imagingfacility

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