Opening a plate right after an upload started used to look like something broke — the page treated the not-yet-existing sprite as a load error. It now recognizes that images are still on their way and says so clearly, and once the upload completes the page refreshes automatically with the new imagery, no manual reload needed.

Going back to a plate or well you'd already opened used to reload every image again, even ones you'd just seen. Now those pages open instantly. And if an image was still on its way when you left, it shows up on its own as soon as it's ready, so you never have to hit refresh to see the latest picture.

Not every imaging run covers a full rectangular grid. When a Keyence BZ scan skips positions on the stage grid — imaging only the wells or regions you care about — the resulting montage is sparse or non-rectangular, and previously those scans were flattened into a single-row layout that didn't reflect what was actually captured.

The agent now reads physical image dimensions and tile coordinates directly from the scan metadata, so each tile is stitched into its true position on the montage. Sparse layouts, rectangular layouts, and single-row scans all render with the correct geometry, and tile positions travel with the imaging metadata so downstream tools can work with the real stage layout.

Details

• Tile placement is driven by stage coordinates rather than an assumed grid shape
• Physical image height and width are captured from scan metadata when available
• Skipped stage-grid positions are preserved as gaps instead of collapsing the montage
• Missing or incomplete calibration and image-size metadata is handled gracefully

When a plate is imaged as overlapping Keyence montage tiles, Plate Montage View previously cropped each tile to its center and placed them edge to edge. Because the tiles genuinely overlap, every seam repeated features that appear in both neighbours — cells and colonies near a boundary could show up twice. The well page never had this problem, since well images are properly fused mosaics, so the two views disagreed about the same well.

Stitched View now renders a true stitched plate image built from those same fused well images. The plate view and the well view finally show the same thing, and features near tile boundaries appear once, where they actually are.

Details

• Applies to plates imaged as overlapping GRID montages where per-tile field-of-view information is available. Plates that don't meet those conditions render exactly as they did before.
• The first view of an eligible plate starts generation automatically and shows the existing view until the stitched image is ready, with clear pending and failed states and a Retry action.
• Plate image export matches what's on screen, so a downloaded image carries the same stitched geometry.
• Datasets missing field-of-view information become eligible on their own once that value is populated — no manual migration needed.