WormLab User Guide

Version 2023

Take a tour of WormLab software.

What's new

View the current Release Notes PDF or see all Release Notes.

Licensing

New floating license option available that increases your flexibility by enabling you to run WormLab on different computers with a single license.

Please note: Floating licenses require a current software upgrade and support subscription and internet access. Click here to renew your subscription.

Video Playback

Improved support for videos with variable keyframe intervals enables faster/smoother scrolling through videos

Expanded the Repair Toolbox

  • Added tools to easily remove non-worm objects from data sets

  • New ability to assign a specific ID to a worm track

  • Automatically join discontinuous worm tracks based on user-defined shape and position tolerances

  • Easily audit tracking results with navigation tools to quickly jump to key events in a worm track (e.g. track start, termination, entanglements or self-overlap)

Learn about repair tools.

General

Free-hand contour label option enables flexible delineation of user-defined regions of interest

Analysis

Added Export capability for a consolidated Bending Angles report

Previous versions

Detection & tracking

  • Back tracking is now optimized significantly, improving throughput.
  • Head/tail assignment utilizes predominant movement direction for low resolution videos
  • Default values for overlap/interaction tracking are now based on video frame rate
  • Enhanced Multiple Hypotheses Tracking algorithm for improved tracking through entanglements, coiling and self-overlap.

Analysis

  • Enhanced label analysis and track summary

    You can now define the active region of the label to be inside or outside the specified region of interest.

    All metrics previously available in Track Summary are now available in Track Summary by Label

Video Recording

  • New, more efficient video encoder improves encoding speed and decreases file size
  • Increased available buffer to support fast frame rate recording using high resolution cameras
  • Added support for latest Basler cameras. Pylon version 6.2.0 or later is required.
  • Peristaltic distance and speed metrics better describe worms predominantly moving in reverse
  • Pirouette analysis has been added
  • The track summary now includes cumulative mobility forward, idle, and reversal times
  • Improved handling of large datasets

Repair

  • Worm re-indexing is now reflected in the Repair tab

General

  • Added support for macOS Big Sur
  • Added option to specify a fixed com port for systems where auto scanning ports may fail
  • Measuring tool for scaling may be drawn at any angle
  • WormLab Explorer, an analysis-only licensing option is now available (contact sales@mbfbioscience.com for details)