STEMvision Service Training Course

Operators adopting an automated imaging platform for hematopoietic colony-forming unit (CFU) assays can take this hands-on service training course from STEMCELL Technologies to become fluent in the workflow, calibration, and data review associated with the STEMvision system.

Course content covers instrument startup, plate carrier loading, focus and exposure adjustment, image capture parameters, and the colony classification rules used by the software to count erythroid, myeloid, and mixed lineage clusters (CFU-E, BFU-E, CFU-GM, CFU-GEMM). Trainees practice report generation, exporting results to laboratory information systems, and applying quality control thresholds that flag wells with confluent growth, debris, or staining artifacts.

Service specialists from STEMCELL Technologies also walk through routine maintenance procedures, including cleaning the camera optics, verifying LED illumination, updating firmware, and running built-in self-diagnostics, so research use only laboratories using the platform in cell culture workflows can keep the instrument within validated performance bands. The training concludes with a structured competency assessment carried out at the customer's own facility.