Basic concepts for the Aurora Imaging Library Bead module

The basic concepts and vocabulary conventions for the Aurora Imaging Library Bead module are:

• Bead. A strip of malleable material, such as glue or lead, typically used to bond objects together.
• Bead template. A reusable model of a bead.
• Edge. A curve that delineates a boundary, which can be established from intensity transitions in an image.
• Gap. Consecutive measured points that were expected but not found.
• Measured bead. A bead in a target image that Aurora Imaging Library verifies.
• Measured point. A trained point's corresponding point found (or expected) on a measured bead.
• Path. The continuous sequence of positions that the bead follows.
• Point. A positional element along a bead.
• Search box. The region in the image in which to extract a point along the bead. The portion of the bead, corresponding to the search box of a point, can be referred to as a slice.
• Stripe. A bead consisting of two edges; the distance between the edges is the bead's width.
• Target image. The image in which to measure and validate beads during the verification phase.
• Trained bead. A template that has been trained (contains the trained points), which allows you to use it for the verification of a bead.
• Trained points. Points contained in a template, generated by the training phase, and used for the verification of a bead. Each trained point is associated with the width and height of the bead slice from which it was extracted (search box).
• Training (phase). The operation that uses all training specifications to generate the trained bead template(s). [Image: BeadBasicConceptsTrainingPhase.png]
• Training image. An ideal image of beads, which you can use during the training phase to train the templates and establish their trained points.
• Verification (phase). The operation that analyzes beads in the target image and validates whether they conform to the specified bead template. [Image: BeadBasicConceptsVerificationPhase.png]
• Vertices. Positional points added to a bead template to define its path.