Objects that touch each other are automatically recognized as seperate objects. Deformed objects will be recognized and specifically labelled when necessary.
For each object a large number of features can be extracted.
A few examples are: size and shape factors, texture, location of specific anatomical parts, length, etc.
Recognition of the shape can be combined with information from other channels: multiple fluorescent channels can be analyzed and features can be extracted, e.g. location, intensity, texture, etc.
The software has been successfully applied in infection, cancer, toxicological and gene expression studies.