Image Version 3

Image3 is an integrated software package for image analysis of fingerprint gels. The gel image is scanned or otherwise imported as an image file, and analyzed step by step. At each step the gel is analyzed a little further, and the results are displayed on the screen, where a manual editor is provided at each stage. These stages are :

0. Choosing a gel for editing

1. Enter parameters

2. Edit lane tracking data

3. Edit band data lane by lane

4. Edit marker lock

5. Finish ! - write final output and transfer to database

Running the interactive tool

You interact with Image through the im3 tool. It takes an optional -noinstall argument to avoid installing a custom colourmap. You provide no other arguments. All other information is obtained through environment variables that you should have set correctly during installation.

The Image startup screen

In the top row you find three buttons :

[Quit program] - appears on every screen; will close down current gel and exit the program
[Update display] - only on this screen; will re-read all directories and update the two chooser windows
[ ? ] - appears also on every screen; brings up this help window, with a help text about the current step

The startup screen consists of two halves, of which each is a sub window. The two sub windows are :