Accurate Stitched Plate Montages

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.