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Microscopy Toolkit (Simulink)
Graphical user interface with which the image analysis pipeline and the control algorithm can be defined
A Matlab script is executed by μPlateImager, which transfers the control over the microscope and automatically starts the GUI based on Simulink. The GUI consists of several blocks representing the single steps of the image analysis and the control of the microscope. First, the microscope block triggers the microscope to make an image and sends this image to the cell detection block, which detects all cells in the current image and tracks them between the several frames. This information is send to the next block which selects the cell to be controlled. Furthermore, by comparing the change in the position of the E. lemming over several consecutive images, the direction of the E. lemming is estimated. This data together with the raw image is send to the display.
Output on the screen. The cone is visualizing the current direction of the selected E. coli.
The direction of the cell is automatically compared to the direction it should go. This direction can be intuitively defined by the user using a joystick. The force feedback functionality of the joystick is used to give the user an intuitive feedback of the current direction of the E. lemming. If the difference between the actual direction of the E. lemming and the direction the user defined is too high, tumbling is automatically induced by a red light (660nm) pulse. Otherwise tumbling is supressed by a far red light (748nm). Alternatively the user can induce the pulses directly using the buttons of the joystick.
If the cell is moving out of the image the microscope moves automatically such that the cell is always approximately in the center of the image.
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