Implementation of Digital Image Processing and Analysis in aBiology Curriculum

在过去的25年里，视频显微镜和数字成像彻底改变了光学显微镜，个人电脑改变了课堂教学方式。 到目前为止，生物系缺乏资源，使数字图像采集和分析的课程的一个组成部分。 该部门目前正在获取光学显微镜和计算机资源，以使这种集成成为可能。 使用各种设备光学显微镜耦合，通过摄像机，以视频帧抓取板的Macintosh计算机;在凝胶文档系统中的摄像机;数字化平板电脑;和扫描仪学生数字化图像，然后处理和分析它们。 一些经过处理的图像被用作电子实验室报告的基础，并为其他学生提供参考。 教师，与本科Macintosh专家的帮助下，正在启动使用的仪器在两个部门的四个核心课程和两个高级选修课程，帮助其他教师在核心课程学习如何使用仪器，并监督学生使用仪器做独立的研究。 该项目涉及所有生物专业，所有学院的预愈合艺术学生，以及其他科学系的许多学生。 它正在为学生和教师提供强大的新技能，并帮助其他人扩大对这项技术的使用。 学生们经常在工作站上分组工作，因此该项目也鼓励协作学习。 *

During the past 25 years, video microscopy and digital imaging have revolutionized light microscopy, and personal computers have changed how classes are taught. Until now, the Biology Department has lacked the resources to make digital image acquisition and analysis an integral part of its curriculum. The department is now acquiring light microscope and computer resources to make this integration possible. Using a variety of devices light microscopes coupled, through video cameras, to Macintosh computers with video frame-grabber boards; a video camera in a gel documentation system; a digitizing tablet; and a scanner students are digitizing images and then processing and analyzing them. Some of the processed images are being used as the basis of electronic laboratory reports and serving as references for other students. Faculty, with the help of undergraduate Macintosh experts, are initiating the use of the instruments in two of the department's four core courses and two upper-level elective courses, helping other faculty in the core courses learn how to use the instruments, and supervising the use of the instruments by students doing independent research. The project involves all biology majors, all of the college's pre-healing arts students, and many students majoring in other science departments. It is equipping students and faculty with powerful new skills and helping others expand their uses of this technology. Students often work in groups at the workstations, so the project also encourages collaborative learning. *