Currently, the Millicell DCI does not support true phase contrast or fluorescence imaging; the instrument can provide brightfield imaging and has some phase-like imaging capability. The Millicell DCI is only able to capture static images, it does not support the capture of time lapse images and videos.
Currently the Millicell DCI digital cell imager does not support remotely acquiring images, images must be taken in real time. Some image data can be processed and edited remotely once data is uploaded to the cloud. Mask and cell size can be adjusted in the cloud, however adjusting the image brightness must be done on the instrument when taking the image and cannot be edited in the cloud and images cannot be cropped or resized in the cloud as the scale bar and cell confluency estimates will be incorrect.
Images taken on the instrument are in PNG format and the exported data is in CSV format. The Millicell DCI contains a camera with 5 MP CMOS sensor and resolution is 2560 x 1920, or monochrome and runs on the Dual Core IMX7 processor running at 1.2GHZ, so the image processing time is in milliseconds. The image area on the instrument for viewing is 2.4 mm x 1.4 mm.