Quickly obtain food microstructures’ properties from your imaging data.

3D imaging techniques, such as X-ray micro-computed tomography (micro-CT), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), provide insights into food structure and how it changes in various situations, including processing operations.

Thermo Scientific Avizo Software is an all-in-one image analysis platform that allows the visualization, processing, and quantification of food and seed structures acquired with a variety of imaging modalities. The microstructural characterization and the relation of microstructure to properties needed in food engineering, chemistry, microbiology, and safety are easily made possible by Avizo Software's comprehensive analysis toolset.

Imaging data

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Processing

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Visualization

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Analysis

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カスタマイズ

信頼性

当社のデジタルイメージングベースのワークフローは、パワフルなセグメンテーションや画像処理能力およびワークフローを備えており、また科学コミュニティや数千人もの研究者との20年以上にわたるコラボレーション実績があるため、産業および科学分野の問題に対して信頼できる答えを提供することが実証されています。

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自動化

自動化機能や拡大を続けるアドオンのオンラインレポジトリ(Xtra Gallery)により、繰り返し可能なワークフローを再現が容易なレシピに変換きます。人工知能が追加されているため、画像処理専門家以外でも分析が可能で、複雑な分析に費やす時間を短縮しながら結果の一貫性を維持できます。

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サポート

当社は専用のプロフェッショナルサポートチームを配備しているため、トップエキスパートに問い合わせて、あらゆる質問に対する回答を得ることができます。また、当社のトレーニングやコンサルティングオプション、拡張し続けているチュートリアルやハウ・ツーを活用することで学習時間を短縮し、追求している答えを見つけることに集中できます。

カスタマイズ

カスタマイズ

お客様のニーズはそれぞれ異なり、常に進化しているため、当社のソフトウェアソリューションは非常に柔軟で、自由にカスタマイズできます。当社のスクリプトインターフェース(Python、TCL)、MATLABとのブリッジ、およびプログラミングAPIを利用することにより、当社のソフトウェアソリューションを拡張し、お客様独自のIP(知的財産)を統合できます。また必要に応じて、当社のプロフェッショナルサービスチームがお客様のニーズに合わせた独自ソリューションの設計をお手伝いします。


Scientific use cases using Avizo Software


Techniques

Food engineering

Food engineering helps advance product quality, improving food properties for more cost-effective production and commercialization. Avizo Software helps food engineers understand the relation between microstructure and product properties with 3D visualization, processing, and analysis of MRI and microCT images of food. Time-series analysis of the evolution of food is also possible with Avizo Software, further contributing to improvements in the longevity and other aspects of food. Unilever uses Avizo Software to visualize and clarify food structures.

 

Product quality and safety

Providing safe, high-quality food is a mandatory requirement that protects consumers from illness and injury. The combination of microCT images and Avizo Software allows for analysis and control of biological, chemical, and physical elements of the finished food product.

For example, during the analysis of a random chocolate candy, the end of the production chain is tasked with checking both the food quality (in terms of quantity of ingredients) and the food safety (presence of undesired materials). The composition of the candy (volume amount of each ingredient) is precisely measured, as well as the porosity.

 

Bubble analysis

Bubbles in food create an aerated structure that enhances the product appearance and its properties (smoothness, creaminess, crispness, etc.). Avizo Software provides efficient methods to segment the bubbles and quantify both their attributes and size distribution. Avizo Software's Pore Network Modeling allows the creation of an equivalent network model of the porous distribution for advanced analysis of the bubbles' interconnections and properties.

 

Powder flowability

Physical properties, such as particle size and spatial distribution, shape factors, packing density, and surface area, play a key role in powder flow. Powder flowability can be fully characterized with Avizo Software's advanced and extensive quantification and analysis toolset.

For example, agglomerates in baby powder milk can be segmented and classified based on size and spatial distribution to quantify their effect on powder flowability.

 

Seed analysis

3D structural analysis of seeds is critical in many aspects of seed technology. Avizo Software's advanced characterization toolset allows for quality control of coated seeds. Seed coat thickness, volume, sphericity, and roughness can be evaluated. Measurements of internal and external seed structures, including volume and surface areas, allow for the quantification of seed properties such as resistance and germination potential. Nondestructive testing visualization and analysis of seeds is also made possible based on Avizo Software's high-quality 3D volume rendering techniques. GEVES uses Avizo Software to study and control plant seeds.

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Food engineering

Food engineering helps advance product quality, improving food properties for more cost-effective production and commercialization. Avizo Software helps food engineers understand the relation between microstructure and product properties with 3D visualization, processing, and analysis of MRI and microCT images of food. Time-series analysis of the evolution of food is also possible with Avizo Software, further contributing to improvements in the longevity and other aspects of food. Unilever uses Avizo Software to visualize and clarify food structures.

 

Product quality and safety

Providing safe, high-quality food is a mandatory requirement that protects consumers from illness and injury. The combination of microCT images and Avizo Software allows for analysis and control of biological, chemical, and physical elements of the finished food product.

For example, during the analysis of a random chocolate candy, the end of the production chain is tasked with checking both the food quality (in terms of quantity of ingredients) and the food safety (presence of undesired materials). The composition of the candy (volume amount of each ingredient) is precisely measured, as well as the porosity.

 

Bubble analysis

Bubbles in food create an aerated structure that enhances the product appearance and its properties (smoothness, creaminess, crispness, etc.). Avizo Software provides efficient methods to segment the bubbles and quantify both their attributes and size distribution. Avizo Software's Pore Network Modeling allows the creation of an equivalent network model of the porous distribution for advanced analysis of the bubbles' interconnections and properties.

 

Powder flowability

Physical properties, such as particle size and spatial distribution, shape factors, packing density, and surface area, play a key role in powder flow. Powder flowability can be fully characterized with Avizo Software's advanced and extensive quantification and analysis toolset.

For example, agglomerates in baby powder milk can be segmented and classified based on size and spatial distribution to quantify their effect on powder flowability.

 

Seed analysis

3D structural analysis of seeds is critical in many aspects of seed technology. Avizo Software's advanced characterization toolset allows for quality control of coated seeds. Seed coat thickness, volume, sphericity, and roughness can be evaluated. Measurements of internal and external seed structures, including volume and surface areas, allow for the quantification of seed properties such as resistance and germination potential. Nondestructive testing visualization and analysis of seeds is also made possible based on Avizo Software's high-quality 3D volume rendering techniques. GEVES uses Avizo Software to study and control plant seeds.

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Services

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初級者向けトレーニング

Amira、Avizo、およびPerGeosソフトウェアの新規ユーザー用に設計された初級者向けトレーニングは学習速度を高め、投資を最大化します。

このコースは講義と実践セッションで構成されています。トレーニング教材は、Amira、Avizo、およびPerGeosソフトウェアの基本的な特長や機能を取り上げています。

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上級者向けトレーニング

Amira、Avizo、およびPerGeosソフトウェアの既存ユーザー用に設計された上級者向けトレーニングは投資を最大化し、結果までの時間の短縮します。

このコースは講義と実践セッションで構成されています。トレーニング教材は、Amira、Avizo、およびPerGeosソフトウェアの高度な特長や機能を取り上げています。

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カスタム開発

サーモフィッシャーサイエンティフィックには25年以上にわたる3Dおよび画像処理の経験と、大小の規模の組織に提供してきたカスタムプロジェクトの実績があり、お客様の独自のニーズに合わせてソリューションを提供できます。

当社のソフトウェアソリューションをさまざまなレベルでカスタマイズおよび拡張できます。


Resources

Porosity in hazelnut chocolate

Avizo fiber fertilizer influence on root growth

Quantification of insect damage in Faba bean seeds

Quality assessment of coated sugar beet seeds

Porosity in hazelnut chocolate

Avizo fiber fertilizer influence on root growth

Quantification of insect damage in Faba bean seeds

Quality assessment of coated sugar beet seeds

Features

Import and process your imaging data

    • Handle any modality, at any scale, of any size:

    - X-ray tomography: CT, micro-/nanoCT
    - Electron microscopy
    - Synchrotron

    • Support for multi-data/multi-view, multi-channel, time series, very large data
    • Scaling, calibration, conversion, re-sampling
    • Image enhancement, comprehensive filtering and convolution, Fourier frequency transforms
    • Artifact reduction algorithms
    • Advanced multi-mode 2D/3D automatic registration
    • Image stack alignment, arithmetic, correlation, fusion

    Easily segment your imaging data

    • Thresholding and auto-segmentation, object separation, automatic labeling
    • Region growing, snakes, interpolation, wrapping, smoothing
    • Morphological processing, including watershed and basins
    • Machine Learning-based segmentation
    • Automatic tracing of individual fibers and filaments
    • Skeletonization and filament network extraction
    • 3D surface reconstruction
    • Grid generation for FEA/CFD

    Image-to-simulation workflows

    • 3D image-based meshing for Finite Element and CFD
    • Porosity/pore connectivity analysis and skeletonization for Pore Network Modeling
    • Direct 3D image-based simulation: absolute permeability, molecular diffusivity, electrical resistivity, and thermal conductivity computation

    Export your analysis and visualization work to seamlessly publish and present it

    • Animation and video generation
    • Advanced key frame and object animation
    • Mix images, geometric models, measurements and simulations
    • Annotations, measures legends, histograms and curve plots
    • Export spreadsheets, 3D models, high-quality images

    Visualize and explore your imaging data

    • Interactive high-quality volume
    • Orthogonal, oblique, cylindrical and curved slicing
    • Contouring and iso-surface extraction
    • Maximum Intensity or other types of projections
    • Vector and tensor visualization

    Analyze your imaging data and obtain quantitative information

    • Intuitive recipe creation, customization, automated replay
    • Built-in measurements, including counts, volumes, areas, perimeters, aspect ratios and orientations
    • User-defined measures
    • Results viewer with spreadsheet tool and charting
    • Automatic individual feature measurements, 3D localization and spreadsheet selection
    • Automated statistics, distribution graphs
    • Feature filtering using any measurement criterion
    • Data registration, deformation, comparison and measurements
    • Porosity detection and measurement
    • Fiber analysis
    • Pre-processing for structural and flow simulations
    • Import of CAD models for actual/nominal comparison

    Easily and quickly adapt Avizo Software to your specific needs

    • Custom C++ modules development
    • MATLAB™ bridge
    • Python scripting API


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