Definiens Tissue Studio 2.0 Digital Pathology Image Analysis Software

A few years behind radiology, the field of pathology is now slowly making the move to a digital working environment.
One of the new tools helpful in automating some of the laborious tasks involved in pathological research is Definiens Tissue Studio, a digital pathology image analysis program for biomarker translational research. The program uses a “learn-by-example” principle, where it learns from example digital histopathology images with features identified by the user in order to automate measurement in other images. It can quantify localized biomarker expression as well as more than 50 morphological features within pre-defined regions of interest on a cell-by-cell basis and within sub-cellular compartments. The software can handle whole virtual slides as well as tissue micro arrays. The new 2.0 version adds full immunofluorescence support, improved nucleus detection for bright field images, customized “tuning” of Definiens Composer technology along with faster performance. Although it is aimed at research environments, we can see these kind of tools making headway into the clinical environment in the future as well, e.g. for quantifying Her2/neu expression in breast cancer.
Press release: Definiens Tissue Studio 2.0 Supports Tumor Profiling, Multiplexing and Biomarker Translational Research…
Product page: Tissue Studio…