Image Processging

The Vanderbilt Medical Center CISR Facility provides three computer systems for use in medical research studies by various faculty, staff, and students. The offline image processing workstations are running the latest versions of Metamorph, Adobe Photoshop and Zeiss Image Examiner. Two systems are located in MRBIII (4155 and 7149) and the other is in 742 Light Hall. Please remember, access to all CISR equipment is limited to registered users only. Please Click Here for more information on the registration process.

MetaMorph 7.6 is the next generation of world-class image acquisition and analysis software from Molecular Devices. MetaMorph 7.6 now includes two new applications; 3D Track Objects and the Micronuclei Application Module. Combining the most flexible and powerful tools for image acquisition, processing, and analysis, MetaMorph imaging systems offer a complete solution for even the most demanding live-cell imaging needs.

Adobe Photoshop is the software of choice for media editing, animation, and authoring. Files in Photoshop's native format, .PSD, can be exported to and from Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Adobe Encore to make professional standard DVDs and provide non-linear editing and special effects services, such as backgrounds, textures, and so on, for television, film, and the Web. Photoshop is a pixel-based image editor, unlike Adobe Illustrator, which is a vector-based image editor.

Photoshop can utilize the color models RGB, lab, CMYK, grayscale, binary bitmap, and duotone. Photoshop has the ability to read and write raster and vector image formats such as .EPS, .PNG, .GIF, .JPEG, and Fireworks. It also has several native file formats:

* The .PSD (Photoshop Document) format stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. These include layers with masks, color spaces, ICC profiles, transparency, text, alpha channels and spot colors, clipping paths, and duotone settings.
* The .PSB (Large Document Format) format is a newer version of .PSD designed for files over 2 gigabytes.
* The .PDD (PhotoDeluxe Document) format is a version of .PSD that only supports the features found in the discontinued PhotoDeluxe software.