What is Neuroinfo?
Neuroinfo is a software package which was developed by MicroBrightField, Inc. to provide digital microscopy to intranets and the Internet. It provides a web server, and image server, an embedded database as an integrated package which is easy to customize and extend. The images you see are very large. They were created using a microscope with a motorized mechanism which scans many fields of view, and combines them into a large montage which we call a digital slide. Images may represent as much as 80 Gigabytes of uncompressed image data. The system provides access to any field of view at any magnification from any web browser instantly. The web site neuroinformatica.com is an example of the functionality that Neuroinfo provides. Neuroinfo features include • Viewing and zooming of images that are too big to transfer efficiently across the Internet • Cataloging and grouping of slides. Categories can be user-defined and cover a broad range of data that is important in the interpretation of
