MF6 Microscopic Cell Analysis, Colony Counting, Screening, and Antibacterial Zone Measurement Combined Instrument
The new MF6 is a multifunctional all-in-one machine upgraded by Xunshu Technology, which helps to achieve intelligence in routine microbial experiments: microscopic cell observation and analysis, automatic colony counting and screening, antibacterial zone measurement, and potency analysis.
Microscopic digital imaging is composed of a German Zeiss PrimoStar microscope combined with a thermoelectric cooling camera (SONY CCD chip), which provides clear cell images, good color reproduction, and high sensitivity under low light conditions. The imaging of bacterial colonies and inhibition zones is carried out using a color CCD camera combined with a high-resolution fixed focus lens (200 Lp/mm), resulting in vivid colors and sharp details in the images.
The system also has data security, audit tracking, and information management functions toAnti tampering technology, intelligent reconstruction technology of testing environment testing process, watermark signature technologyAs the core, we will build a multi-level and mutually restrictive safety management and guarantee system, which meets the requirements of the State Food and Drug Administration for food and drug testing computer information systems.
Microscopic image analysis
Microscopic image acquisition
The Zeiss PrimoStar high-definition microscope is used for optical image acquisition, and the optical images are converted into high-quality digital signals through a 1.4 million pixel cold CCD. Thermoelectric cooling CCD can effectively reduce thermal noise, thereby obtaining high-resolution images, suitable for image capture in low light conditions.
cell counting
It has a large number of statistical functions, such as regional statistics, diameter classification statistics, color recognition statistics, adhesion segmentation, impurity removal, mouse click statistics, etc., which can quickly count spores and cells.
Image processing and annotation
Built in 27 image processing methods, such as adaptive enhancement, color component enhancement, and image processing

Flattening, edge sharpening, filtering, edge detection, morphological operations, etc. can significantly improve the microscopic observation effect and meet the special needs of users. Text and graphic embedding tools can provide assistance for writing scientific research papers.
Microscopic measurement function
Can accurately measure the diameter, angle, curvature, and circumference of cells and hyphae

Area, as well as the length of any manually drawn lines, arcs, curves, etc., and automatically generate measurement results.
colony counting
Tri color LED hybrid light source, color temperature adjustment
Scientific research aims to accurately reflect the color of bacterial colonies, as traditional white LED lighting tends to produce bluish images. Long life, low power consumption, environmentally friendly three color LED mixed light, with a color temperature range of 3500K-8500k controlled by the ratio of warm and cool colors, captures the most realistic color of bacterial colonies.
Culture dish imaging system
Adopting SONY high-sensitivity and large area array CCD, it has the characteristics of ultra-low readout noise level, wide dynamic range, and high sensitivity design. Combined with a 10 megapixel F1.4 large aperture fixed focus lens (200Lp/mm) and suspended dark field illumination, it can clearly display small colonies, bubbles, and scratches in the deep layers of the culture medium.
Fully enclosed darkroom shooting
Adopting fully enclosed, wide light strip lighting technology and ergonomic porthole door design, it isolates the interference of ambient light, eliminates the light spot and halo phenomenon formed by the refraction of stray light in glass culture dishes, and provides light and shadow conditions for accurate live bacterial counting. The upper light source provides 360 degree flexible mixed light illumination, which can highlight the color and texture of the colony, making the wrinkles, depressions, and jagged edges of the colony surface more three-dimensional; The bottom light source is a crystal sharp suspended dark field illumination, which not only clearly outlines the outline of bacterial colonies, but also distinguishes the basal hyphae and aerial hyphae of fungi or actinomycetes.
Fourth generation intelligent recognition technology for bacterial colonies
The fourth generation colony counter of Xunshu is based on the international cutting-edge image segmentation technology "level set active contour model" as the core, creatively developing advanced image segmentation technologies such as "fast active contour model", "color level set active contour model based on RGB constraints", "multiphase level set active contour model" for microbial colony diversity. It has the advantages of strong noise resistance, good numerical stability, smooth and continuous segmentation boundaries, and can handle topological structures, achieving accurate counting of complex colonies.
Multi regional parallel statistics
In the field of medical research, there is often a need for separate statistical analysis of multiple regions, such as OPKA (regulated phagocytic bactericidal test) for testing the efficacy of pneumococcal vaccines, SBA (serum bactericidal test) for detecting the bactericidal ability of specific antibodies, plaque counting for virus titer determination, and various porous plate clone counts. Fast counting multi region statistical algorithms can easily achieve synchronized one click counting of any number of regions.
Advanced Tools - Background Text, Speckle Elimination
The symbols and stains marked with a marker pen at the bottom of the culture dish can interfere with the automatic recognition of bacterial colony images. The background restoration tool developed by Xunshu only requires two steps to restore the culture dish image to its original state, thereby improving the accuracy of colony image segmentation.
Colony screening
Double circle analysis
Xunshu provides specialized characteristic analysis tools for double circle problems such as antibacterial circle, transparent circle, color changing circle, and growth circle. By accurately measuring the outer circle diameter and colony diameter, the area ratio and diameter ratio of the two are automatically calculated. Automatically sort and locate corresponding colonies based on the size of the ratio, which can be used for screening antibiotics, enzyme preparations, organic acids, etc.
Multi strain classification and recognition
In microbial research, it is sometimes necessary to classify and count target bacteria in the presence of multiple bacterial mixtures. The example image shows a mixed probiotic preparation of Bacillus licheniformis and Bacillus subtilis, which utilizes the subtle differences in color, size, and contour between the two bacteria for accurate image recognition.

Color colony recognition
With the increasingly widespread use of chromogenic culture media, new requirements have been put forward in the fields of scientific research and detection: classifying and counting colonies of different colors at once. Traditional multi-color colony automatic classification generally uses the method of colored cubes, but the effect is often not good. The latest research by Xunshu Technology, "Multi color Clustering of Level Set Active Contour Model Based on RGB Constraints," incorporates the RGB model into the constraints of the CV level set active contour model and achieves ideal image segmentation results.
Description of colony characteristics The description of colony morphology is necessary in the basic research of microorganisms. Because everyone's language is different, the traditional description is arbitrary. Xunshu has established a digital description system for colony morphology, which not only standardizes the characterization of bacteria, yeast, actinomycetes, and fungi, but also directly imports precise measurement data of colonies into the database. Especially for colony color, automatically generate color text descriptions based on the three-dimensional color data of the value points.
One click measurement of moldThe traditional fungal research experiments, such as mycelial growth rate, fungal growth amount, mycelial growth inhibition rate, and indoor toxicity determination, use the cross method to measure the colony growth diameter. Due to the spread, looseness, and irregular edge divergence of most fungal colonies, there is a large human error in measurement, resulting in low efficiency. The "one click mold measurement" module of Xunshu can instantly measure the area, circumference, length, and length of large molds by clicking once on the edge of the colony with a "magic wand".
Architecture design to ensure system security and data security The four tiered system architecture of "system administrator, data administrator, operator, and reviewer" is divided into functions and permissions to ensure the security, integrity, and authenticity of data information.
System administrator: responsible for creating and managing accounts and login passwords for all operators and auditors.
Data administrator: responsible for archive management, sealing, and computer database management of all test data.
Operator: Responsible for testing, self checking, correcting, generating electronic reports, submitting for review, and printing reports on approved documents for culturing dish colonies
Auditor: Responsible for reviewing the test reports submitted by operators.
Watermark signature, tamper proof, intelligent reconstruction of testing process - achieving effective audit tracking① Multi user password login, electronic signature, computer-generated operation review date;
② All operational procedures, such as images, dilution ratios, statistical tools, parameters used, test values, correction situations, etc., are automatically recorded in the database by the computer and cannot be modified by the operator;
③ By reproducing the testing environment and process, the reviewer can trace all the operations of the operator.
Antibacterial zone measurement
Szone multimodal measurement technology
The tube disk diffusion method requires a circular and clear edge of the antibacterial zone, but there may still be situations such as unclear or broken edges in the experiment. The S-zone antibacterial zone multi-mode measurement technology uses three different high-speed algorithms to accurately extract the pixels that make up the edge of the antibacterial zone, thus completing high-precision measurement.
Antibiotic potency determinationComplies with the Chinese Pharmacopoeia 2020 edition two dose method, three dose method, and combined calculation requirements

Please. High definition imaging and high-precision digital measurement ensure the accuracy of potency determination. The relative error of repetitive self check is less than 0.01%; The relative error of uniformity self-test is less than 0.1%; The accuracy of potency measurement is greater than 99.7%.
Sulbactam sensitive β - lactase test The issue of antibiotic residues has become one of the important factors affecting the safety of dairy products. In order to test whether β - lactase is added to milk, Xunshu provides a fast measurement and intelligent judgment software, which intelligently judges whether β - lactase is positive or negative through pure water verification, parallel sample detection, and average value calculation.
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Main functions and technical indicators
1、 Digital imaging of bacterial colonies and inhibition zones
1. Light source
2. Light path and lighting control
Fully enclosed dark box: eliminating environmental stray light interference
Upper light source: Scene style 360 ° flexible shadowless lighting
Lower light source: Crystal Sharp floating dark field illumination
Up light, down light, dual light, UV, freely switch
Color temperature adjustable (3500K-8500K), light intensity adjustable
3. Optoelectronic conversion
Ultra clear industrial fixed focus lens: 12mm 10 megapixel ultra clear fixed focus lens with a resolution of 200 lp/mm
Professional CCD camera: SONY 2/3-inch color CCD sensor, 5.2 million pixels C-Mount
2、 Colony analysis module
1. Basic colony counting function
Type of petri dish: pouring, coating, membrane filtration, spiral petri dish, 3M paper sheet, porous plate
One click intelligent counting (6 modes):Flat sense mode, three-dimensional sense mode, small colony priority, large colony priority, same color bacteria priority, medium exclusion mode
Whole dish colony count: Count the total number of colonies and display them classified by 25 sizes
Region selection statistics: You can choose circular, rectangular, or arbitrarily delineated regions for statistics
Diameter classification statistics: Set a diameter range and count colonies of specific sizes
Mouse click statistics: Quickly mark and add colonies, suitable for counting colonies at the edge of culture dishes
Colony adhesion segmentation: Automatically segment colonies that adhere to each other, and users can choose to segment or not segment chain colonies
2. Advanced colony counting function
Spiral colony statistics: spiral colony statistics: automatically count spiral plates according to FDA standards, and support exponential mode, slow exponential mode, uniform mode, proportional mode, lawn mode, etc. Compatible with SBI in the United States and IUL in Spain.Support the entry and exit inspection and quarantine industry standard SN/T 2098-2008
Dynamic adjustment statistics: The statistical results can be dynamically adjusted and corrected to quickly obtain the best statistical effect.
Deviation estimation statistics: suitable for situations with multiple and complex colony colors.
Level set multi model algorithm: search operation, obtain the best image segmentation effect, adapt to background changes in the culture medium
Specific colony statistics: Identify specific colonies based on their color, size, and contour characteristics
Trans statistics: suitable for extremely complex colony types and uniform culture medium background
Statistics of high adhesion bacteria: segmentation calculation suitable for multiple adhesion bacteria
Removal of miscellaneous bacteria and impurities: Automatic removal of miscellaneous bacteria and impurities based on differences in morphology, size, and color
3. Grid filter membrane and 3M test piece
Black solid line grid one click statistics
3M bacterial count test piece, 3M test piece: one click statistics
3M coliform test strip, 3M Escherichia coli/coliform rapid test strip: one click statistics+manual selection
4. Typical bacterial screening
Monochromatic classification statistics: Select specific colonies based on color accuracy, diffusion, colony size, and contour features
Multi color automatic clustering: automatically distinguish 24 different colored colonies based on color clustering accuracy
Multi color screening: Screen 1-8 bacterial colonies at once
Transparent circle characteristic analysis: suitable for antibacterial circle, hydrolysis circle, discoloration circle, calcium dissolution circle, hemolysis circle, oil discharge circle, phosphorus dissolution circle analysis
Dual color circle automatic filtering
5. Description of colony characteristics
Bacteria and yeast: features such as color, size, shape, surface morphology, edge, gloss, transparency, etc., intelligently described and sorted
Mold and actinomycetes: features such as front color, back color, size, surface morphology, edges, texture, etc., intelligently described and sorted
6. Microbial limit analysis tool
7. Special Line Analysis
Anti mold testing: quantitative analysis of anti mold level
Serial statistics: suitable for complex bacterial colonies with uneven background in the culture medium
Parallel statistics: suitable for porous plate, OPKA, SBA analysis
8. Advanced Tools
Grid cleaning: eliminate background interference in the filter membrane grid
Manual counting correction: adding or deleting colonies
Exclude contaminated areas: Use the mouse to outline any contaminated area and automatically remove the bacterial count from the contaminated area
Background text elimination: automatically eliminates marker interference
Background stripe removal: automatically eliminates interference from stains on the culture dish
Artificial Adhesive Segmentation: Manually segmenting multiple adhesive colonies
Automatic parameter conversion: Input the diameter of the culture dish and sample dilution to achieve automatic conversion
Text and graphic annotation: various drawing tools and embedded Chinese and English text
9. Calibration and Measurement
Instrument calibration: The instrument comes with built-in calibration and manual correction calibration
One click rapid measurement: One click determination of large bacterial colonies, suitable for single colony analysis of fungi and actinomycetes
Automatic measurement of the entire dish: analysis of the equivalent diameter, area, length, circumference, and roundness of the entire dish colony
Manual precise measurement: length, angle, radian, area, arc, any curve
10. Image processing
Image adjustment: grayscale image and negative phase diagram conversion; Brightness, contrast, and saturation adjustment; RGB adjustment
Image enhancement: sharpening, adaptive enhancement
Image filtering: median filtering, high pass filtering, Gaussian filtering, low-pass filtering, queue filtering, high pass Gaussian filtering
Edge detection: Sobel operator, Robert operator, Laplace operator, vertical detection, horizontal detection
Morphological operations: erosion, dilation, opening operation, closing operation
3、 Data Security and Management
1. The four tiered system architecture of "system, data, operation, and review" is divided into functions and permissions to ensure the security, integrity, and authenticity of data information
System administrator (top-level): responsible for creating and managing accounts and login passwords for all operators and auditors. Ensure account and data isolation between operators and between operators and auditors.
Data Administrator (Deputy Senior): Responsible for archive management of all test data and database management of computers. Seal all approved test reports or backup and export original images and test data to ensure data integrity and security.
Operator: Responsible for testing, self checking, correcting, generating electronic reports, submitting for review, and printing reports on approved documents for culturing dish colonies.
Reviewer: Responsible for reviewing the test reports submitted by operators. Verify the data input and processing process, but have no authority to modify it; Review and return the suspicious report, and request the operator to retest it; The "approved" report will be archived, and neither the auditor nor the operator has the right to delete it again to ensure the originality and authenticity of the data.
2. Data storage and export
Mainly based on electronic data, record: sample source, number, dilution, petri dish image, recognition effect, count value, statistical tools used, parameter settings, correction status, to ensure complete record information.
Meet quality audit requirements, and the stored electronic data can be printed and output in PDF or Excel format
3. Watermark signature technology, tamper proof technology, and intelligent reconstruction technology for testing processes to achieve effective audit tracking
4. Anti tampering technology
Adopting multi-user login management, the names of all operators and auditors are automatically recorded in the operation process and test report by the system; All operation dates and review dates are automatically generated by the computer to avoid errors or forgeries.
The entire operation process, including colony images, dish size, sample dilution, statistical tools, parameters used, total bacterial count obtained from testing, self checked and corrected total bacterial count, etc., is automatically recorded in the database by the computer and cannot be modified by the operator, providing all real data for subsequent audits.
5. Watermark signature technology
6. Intelligent refactoring technology for testing process
The "reviewer" opens the "waiting for review" test record, and the computer automatically restores the entire process and testing environment of the operator, including: images of the culture dish measured at that time, test results, dish size, sample dilution, statistical tools and parameters used, total bacterial count obtained from the test, correction status
By reproducing the testing environment and testing process, the reviewer can trace all the operations of the operator, verify the accuracy of the test results, and achieve the purpose of audit tracking.
4、 Antibacterial zone analysis module
1. Multi mode measurement technology for Szone inhibition zone
Automatic detection: Accurate edge detection based on the contour of the antibacterial zone, suitable for clear edges and circular antibacterial zones
Quasi circular approximation: a circular fitting approximation based on the contour of the antibacterial zone, suitable for edge rupture and non-standard circular antibacterial zones
Manual detection: Click on three points on the edge of the antibacterial zone with the mouse to form a circle, suitable for antibacterial zones with blurred edges
2. Determination of antibiotic potency
One dose method potency testing: suitable for the United States Pharmacopeia
Two dose method, three dose method, and combined calculation: suitable for the 2020 edition of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia
Repetitive self check: relative error rate ≤ 0.01%, repeated measurement accuracy ≤ 0.002mm
Uniformity self check: relative error rate ≤ 0.1%
Measurement difference between stations ≤ 0.2%
3. Shubatan sensitive β - lactase test
Pure water verification: Generate inhibition zones based on (A), (B), and (D), D-C≧3, B-A≦3 , The judgment system is established
Automatically detect the (A), (B), (C), and (D) inhibition zones of three parallel samples and import the data
Automatically calculate the average value of parallel experiments and intelligently distinguish the positive and negative results.
Invalid report automatic warning
5、 Microscopic Cell Analysis Module
1. Microscopic imaging
Microscope: Zeiss PrimoStar Microscope
Thermoelectric cooling camera: SONY 2/3 "inch CCD sensor, 1.4 million pixels
2. Image display and conversion
Image display: Real time dynamic observation, capturing any field of view image at any time
Image observation: with functions of rotation, enlargement, reduction, mirror conversion, and local observation
Image editing: It has functions such as cutting, copying, pasting, and text input for any area of the image
3. Microscopic image processing
Adaptive enhancement: By performing resolution enhancement processing on the original image that matches its features, the image becomes clearer and the edges are more prominent, facilitating the observation and recognition of subtle structures in the image.
Image adjustment: arbitrary adjustment of image brightness, contrast, saturation, RGB three colors, conversion of grayscale image and negative phase diagram
Image compensation: Various mathematical methods such as linear compensation, logarithmic compensation, Bell compensation, etc. are used to compensate for the distorted parts of the image, making the image clearer.
Image sharpening: By enhancing the high-frequency components of an image, the edges of the image become clearer.
Image smoothing: Through image smoothing processing, the background of the image is made uniform.
Image filtering: Six filtering methods, including Gaussian filtering, low-pass filtering, and median filtering, effectively improve image clarity.
Edge detection: Two detection methods and three operators combined with multiple detection options can more accurately extract image contours.
Morphological processing: Nonlinear mathematical morphological processing such as corrosion, expansion, opening, and closing.
4. Target measurement
Calibration: It has the function of online calibration of the system to achieve accurate measurement (default calibration values are built into the system)
Measurement function: online measurement of particle diameter, length, curvature, angle, any curve, area, etc
5. Particle statistics
Automatic statistics: Automatically count particles and display morphological parameters such as area, perimeter, diameter, roundness, etc. of each particle
Regional statistics: Any shape of region such as rectangle, circle, umbrella, etc. can be selected for statistics
Diameter classification statistics: Set the diameter range and count particles of specific sizes
Color recognition statistics: Select specific particles based on chromaticity, brightness, and saturation
Mouse click statistics: Adding or deleting particles with mouse clicks is convenient and fast
Adhesive segmentation processing: According to user needs, particles that adhere to each other can be automatically or manually segmented
Multiple statistical algorithms: using multiple segmentation algorithms, suitable for particle statistics with different backgrounds
Diversified book statistics: comprehensive statistics of multiple microscopic images
Automatic parameter conversion: Based on the statistical area and sample dilution, achieve automatic conversion
6. Drawing and Annotation
Drawing: You can draw lines, rectangles, circles, and any curves as needed for the opened image
Text editing: Text editing of opened images
Annotation: Convenient for annotating lines and angles
6、 Instrument specifications and configuration
New MF6 multifunctional all-in-one machine host
Zeiss PrimoStar microscope, camera adapter
Thermoelectric cooling microscope camera
Colony analysis software, automatic inhibition zone measurement software, antibiotic potency determination software, sulbactam sensitive β - lactam enzyme testing software, microscopic analysis software
Integrated computer: dual core four thread CPU/4G memory/1T hard drive/21.5 'high-definition screen, Windows 7 system or above
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