Counting occurence in image

[gasma1975]

I don't know nothing about NI image DAQ, I'm new to this, I'm a Labwindows/CVI programmer and recently a client asked me if its possible to count cells occurences in an image. Before investing money in such system (seems to be very expensive) I would like to know if NI VISION functions are powerfull enough to count occurences of a human cell in an image ?

Thank you,

[JeremyB]

The short answer to your question is yes and there are similar examples on the IMAQ Vision demonstration CD. I would suggest you try and organize a demo from your local NI office.

Application Note 107 gives a good tutorial on this topic and you can get access to it at the following link:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/1D977AE5ED42CB0C86256869007215CC?opendocument&node=DZ52495_US

As far as support for LabWindows/CVI is concerned, you may see a lot more "traffic" regarding LabVIEW on Developer Zone, but rest assured the capability of the CVI version of IMAQ Vision is virtually identical and there should be enough help either direct from NI or through Developer Zone to help with your application.

With regards to questions about cost, t
he cost of the application will have to be considered versus the benefits of introducing an autonomous inspection system. Your customer may find that the increases in throughput i.e. number of samples/images per hour that can be inspected or the reliability of the results produced (most people will strive towards a 100% inspection imaging application) will offset the initial development costs. This is particularly true if your customer is currently manually inspecting the samples (for example under a microscope).

Jeremy