E.L.M.I.
What is E.L.M.I.?
E.L.M.I. is freeware. You may use it free of charge.
This application was written from a scientist for scientists working with light microscopes.
E.L.M.I. will grow depending on the demands of the scientific community. Therefore scientists always are welcome to get in touch with our bioinformatics department for this purpose (Gerhard.Kauer|at|hs-emden-leer.de).
Our goal is to improve the software depending on the real needs of daily work, so that it will (hopefully) become a "workhorse" which meets the requirements of our scientific community.
E.L.M.I. supports all microscope brands and is, as academic software, independend of any manufacturer.
Main aspects of E.L.M.I.:
- Image annotation system, including an image investigation editor (flicker free zooming, moving, rotation of huge high resolution images (only depending on the graphics card memory), using OpenGL, export functions for publications). External image processing.
- Measuring of lines, areas and volumes with highest possible precision (stochastically ensured + realtime output of the standard measuring error during measurement).
- Automated image analysis for object micrometer factor determination.
- Supporting mono images and stereoscopic images (including stereoscopic viewer for zooming and moving around in the stereo-image). 3D Monitor support coming soon.
- Supports 3D mice ("Space Pilot").
- Collecting any (!) information ( e.g. literature, sampled data,to each single image) for your personal datamining and preparation for publications.
- Multi-relational database engine for collecting and searching scientific images. Database logic is intuitively usable without learning a database command language.
- Database system for laboratory methods (e.g. Histological preparation) which is able to suggest different preparation schemes dependend on the current problem. The more methods you input the better the suggestions will be. A printout function to get the receipes into lab is available.
- Export functions for publications.
- Multilingual. Currently the languages "English", "German" and "Duch" are supported. See menu "Localization!" on this homepage.
- Physical parameters of the microscope optics are allways taken in to account for calculations (when needed). The most important facts are printed on the main screen.
- A taxonomical database (based on NCBI data) is coming soon. You'll get the complete systematics ("tree") with a right mouse-click to a taxonomical name written anywhere in any text.
- Scientific symbol tables, Period System of Elements, etc.
- Context sensitive help.
- Direct access to Canon EOS cameras is implemented. Live View,
Pre View and direct saving of the image taken down to the
database using a unique time code for error free identification are
already available. - If from intererst: E.L.M.I. Is ready for being a mulit-user system. Different permissions to "see" or "change" different data may be included. That way, sensible patient data may be hidden to users with less permission.
- GLP is implemented.
a) The original image data is never changed.
b) The images are stored at well defined place. A mix-up is therefore not possible.
The current roadmap of E.L.M.I.'s internal design.
To get an imagination, what major modules are running during E.L.M.I.'s lifetime, you may have a look to this scetch. Only the most upper classes of E.L.M.I.'s object oriented design is shown.
Currently E.L.M.I. rules over 520 000 (over a half million !!!) lines of code (Frontend applications in C#, some Dll's closer to the operating system or drivers or devices in C++).
And this is version 1.0 and in some features quite experimental.
