HemoFAXS - Microscope-based fully automated leukocytes acquisition and classification system

HemoFAXS brings blood analysis to full automation, whilst maintaining key controlling procedures for accurate analysis. Your hematology lab will benefit from this simple and elegant way of dealing with blood smears. The One-Button-Option HemoFAXS takes over all time consuming, but easy tasks from your lab worker. However, visual control and go-to-cell features make it superior to other fully-automated systems, as it combines the advantages of programmed and human intelligence.

Automated Sample Identification

HemoFAXS 2.0 can now be upgraded with an additional IVD conform camera for slide label reading. The external LED equipped CCD camera takes pictures of the slide label and the label ID is automatically digitized and read out into the HemoFAXS software.

The digitized slide ID is jointly displayed with the digital image in the HemoFAXS interface on the Evaluation tab, allowing easy control of the correctness of the digitization process, as well as easy editing in case of need.

Currently, this is available for Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Advia Autoslide labels. However the process can be adapted to any printed alphanumeric label, as well as to barcodes.

Handwritten labels are not recognized, but can be imaged an displayed for easier manual input of the slide id. The software version delivered with this upgrade comes with added capabilities to deliver full automation. It automatically detects empty slots and also scans two or more slides with the same ID to sum up the Leucocyte formula.

Automated Oiling

This upgrade provides an Oiling Device which drops a small defined amount of immersion oil on the identified working area of the specific slide.

As this oil is deposited in exactly the right place and also at the right time, it is possible to use cheaper, thinner oil types.

Both upgrades together allow for a full consecutive scanning automation, with nothing else to do for the operator but to insert full 8-slide inserts and clicking the “Start” button.

TissueGnostics was established in 2003 after nearly a decade of basic research. The goal was to supply scientists with qualitative and observer independent results for cell and tissue analysis in tissue context and this in automated format and significantly less time.

Katja ?sterreicher, Georg Steiner and Dr. Rupert Ecker, the three co-founders of the company, with the aid of a dozen of development partners (Medical University Vienna, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer Research, Vienna; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle; Brighamand Women`s Hospital, Boston; etc.) succeeded in reaching this target by 2005.

Since then TissueGnostics expanded worldwide, with subsidiaries in Romania, the US and more than 15 different distributors (incl. Japan, China, Taiwan, France, Russia, Korea, Australia, Philippines, Great Britain, Italy, Kuwait, etc.). In 2008/2009 TissueGnostics completed its product portfolio with the HemoFAXS, differentiated blood smear analysis system, setting a new standard in blood analysis.

The combination of modern and state-of-the art analysis methods for scientific and clinical use in tissue and cell based research with innovative and easy-to-handle software to ensure efficient and reliable diagnostics always was and will be the motivation behind TissueGnostics product developments.