Options
From the Options tab in the menu, users can access the general settings of Visiopharm. The first page allows users to change the viewing options of Visiopharm, as seen below.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Lock Layout | Toggles between locked and unlocked layout. When locked, the Visiopharm windows cannot be rearranged. |
| Show Status Bar | Toggles the statur bar on/off |
| Image Alignment | Tune the image alignment from fast towards precise. Precise requires more computation. |
| Image Navigation | Controls how fast the FOV moves/pans when using the arrow keys. |
| Arrow keys pan FOV in fixed steps of | Toggles between panning in steps of X% of the FOV or not. |
| **Test image reading speed.. ** | Opens Whole Slide Reading Speed dialog. |
Status bar
The status bar displays several practical information regarding the current module and/or image. It shows information such as:
magnification, degree of zoom, frame, pixel value, drawing mode, etc. The information presented here is specific to the active module and/or image.
Whole Slide Reading Speed
Opening this dialog will open a window that continuously checks the reading speed of the current image. This tool measures the systems overall bandwith for retrieving and decompress image data.
The following two measures are presented:
- Serial Reading: The speed of viewing images during image analysis, where individual portions of the image will be read in serial.
- Parallel Reading: The speed of viewing and navigating images when multiple portions of the image are read in parallel.
Regardless of the measured bandwith, Visiopharm’s technology will work, but the user experience will increase with larger bandwidth.
If experiencing issues e.g. poor viewer performance, it is recommended to check and optimize the network, server, and storage infrastructure.
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View Options
Control how images from the database are displayed in Visiopharm.
- Viewer Theme - overall color theme of Visiopharm. Choose between:
- Default theme - Default green colored theme.
- Dark theme - Dark grey colored theme.
- Digital zoom - Limits the viewer to only zoom digitally to a given limit. If 'None' is chosen, Visiopharm will stop zooming when the current zoom level corresponds to the resolution of the image.
- New images - If checked, then each time an images is opened/changed the last used rotation, flip and zoom option will be reset.
- Precision Settings - Controls how many significant digits are minimum shown in the viewer. The default is 3.
Miscellaneous
Shows miscellaneous options for Visiopharm.
- Start/Stop – Enable this option to receive a warning message before Visiopharm shuts down.