ZEISS ZEN core
Software Suite for Connected Microscopy from the Materials Lab to Production
ZEN core handles more than just microscopy imaging. ZEN core is the most comprehensive suite of imaging, segmentation, analysis, and data connectivity tools for multi-modal microscopy in connected material laboratories.
Enjoy its highlights:
- Easy to configure – easy to use. Benefit from an adaptive user interface.
- Advanced imaging and automated analysis. Use built-in acquisition routines and take advantage of the consistency of repeatable workflows.
- Infrastructure solution for the connected lab. Keep your data together across instruments, laboratories and locations.

Highlights
One Interface for all ZEISS Microscopes in a Multi-user Environment

From entry-level stereo microscopes to fully automated imaging systems, ZEN core provides a unified user interface for ZEISS microscopes and cameras. ZEN core enables the correlation of light and electron microscopy in multi-modal workflows and provides connectivity between systems, laboratories, and locations.
- Microscope and camera control
- Data acquisition and analysis
- Correlative microscopy
- Post-acquisition analysis
- Automated segmentation
- Contextual analysis
- Integrated reporting
- Mobile Access
- Central Data Management
- Connectivity between systems, laboratories, and locations
- Interfaces for further analysis
User Management Designed to Assure Data Repeatability and Integrity
- Create multiple user accounts with defined privileges and roles according to your needs.
- Create and manage users directly in ZEN core – or connect to ActiveDirectory and reuse those user accounts.
- Administrate all users efficiently using ZEN Data storage as a central hub for all your connected microscopes.
- Protect access with passwords and leverage extensive capabilities to put password rules and expiration times in place.

Perform Automated Segmentation, Contextual Analysis and Reporting
ZEN analyzer is your desktop version of ZEN core, designed for activities that can be done independently of the microscope. Your instrument is not blocked for post-processing tasks. Instead use it to run other experiments—anywhere, anytime, and with genuine efficiency.
- The ideal solution for segmentation and analysis, as well as for reporting and creating job templates.
- Offering remote access to ZEN Data storage.
- Enables you to use all workbenches available in ZEN core giving full control of all data and templates, accessible from your desk.

Materials Modules for Metallography Applications
Including material modules for the determination of grain sizes, phases and layer thicknesses as well as for the classification of graphite particles and non-metallic inclusion analysis, ZEN core provides all important metallographic applications under a uniform user interface.
Advanced Imaging and Analysis
Automation for Light Microscopes
ZEN core provides you with a wide range of choices for automated image acquisition:
Automatically acquire images with enhanced depth of field
Acquire panorama images on coded and non-coded stages
Easily define stitching areas to create highly resolved images
Observe materials under temperature.
Acquire images with multiple channels in one go automatatically, e.g. multiple fluorescent channels or just bright- and darkfield.
ZEN Intellesis Enables Image Segmentation by Machine Learning
Segmentation is one of the biggest challenges faced by today’s microscopists, but you can avoid errors and user bias by using machine learning for image segmentation.
ZEN Intellesis Segmentation
This software module provides powerful machine learning segmentation of multidimensional images including 3D datasets. It’s designed for smooth integration of multiple imaging modalities and for achieving superior segmentation on any single image.
- Automatically analyze images that once had to be processed manually. Train a model to segment them for you.
- Use your own expertise to train the software and let it do the tedious segmentation. Or import dedicated networks trained elsewhere (for example, on www.APEER.com)
- Benefit from saving time in sample preparation as ZEN Intellesis Segmentation can adapt to your own preparation process. Reproducibility is guaranteed as the stored analysis program can be used again, sample by sample, or retrained to handle new samples.


ZEN Intellesis Object Classification
Sometimes segmenting objects like particles, inclusions or grains is straightforward, but it can still be hard to classify them further into different types. Even machine learning-based segmentation techniques may struggle in this case because they only take the appearance of pixels into account and are unable to consider derived properties of pixel clusters (objects) as well.
ZEN Intellesis Object Classification now offers an easy way to classify already segmented objects into subclasses. An object classification model can be trained to perform the classification automatically.
- Instead of looking at individual pixels, the model uses more than 50 properties measured per object to distinguish them. These derived measurements include geometric and intensity-based features.
- Since ZEN Intellesis Object Classification works on tabulated instead of image data, the classification process is much faster than segmentation by specifically trained deep neural networks.
- In addition, the classification process is independent of the prior segmentation, whether it was done by classic thresholding or using machine learning.


Infrastructure Solutions for the Connected Laboratory
ZEN Connect: Quality Data Put in Context
Organize and visualize different microscopy images and data from the same sample in their context, all in one place. For sample-centric analysis, ZEN Connect workflows enable you to get from a quick overview image to advanced imaging with multiple modalities. The correlations between the images at different scales can be seen and easily navigated. The interdependencies of the different datasets can be stored, exported and re-used in a Client Server Database – ZEN Data Storage. Perform exportable line, angle and area measurements in the workspace within or across aligned images. ZEN Connect also enables an integrated reporting across the connected images and datasets.

Correlative Microscopy
Correlative microscopy is a powerful technique for combining the complementary attributes of different microscopic techniques to obtain maximum meaningful information from parts or materials samples. ZEN core is the ZEISS correlative microscopy interface, designed specifically for use in materials analysis available on all ZEISS light- and electron microscopes with motorized stages.
- Transfer samples between LM and EM systems faster than ever.
- Relocate regions of interest automatically.
- Improve efficiency and throughput.
- Collect the maximum relevant information.
- Take well informed material decisions.
Learn more about Correlative Microscopy for Materials Analysis
ZEN Data Storage: Central Data Management in the Connected Laboratory
As digitization continues to improve microscopic investigations, you’re facing an ever-growing mass of images and data that needs to be managed, all the more so in multi-user laboratories. ZEN Data Storage enables you to separate image and data acquisition from post-acquisition works, making everyone in the lab work more efficiently in a number of ways:
- Share instrument presets, workflows, data and reports with ease.
- Access all data from different systems and locations.
- Your analyses are quality assured and reproducible.
- Perform multi-modal workflows and reap maximum information from your samples.
- Help your IT department implement security and backups.
- Combine ZEN Data Explorer with ZEN Data Storage for mobile access to your data. This lets you use your tablet or smartphone to examine your results when you’re on the go.

GxP Module: Secure and Compliant Microscopy Processes
The GxP module enables traceable workflows through seamlessly integrated microscopy hardware and software to meet the requirements of regulated industries. Every workflow available in ZEN core can be made GxP compliant.
- User management
- Audit trail
- Release procedure of workflows
- Electronic signatures, incl. countersign functionality
- Checksum protection of process-critical data
- Disaster recovery

Module Packages
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Downloads
ZEISS ZEN core
Software Suite for Connected Microscopy in Material Laboratories
pages: 33
file size: 14957 kB
ZEISS Microscope Software for Your Routine Laboratory - Flyer
Get it done. Easy.
pages: 4
file size: 1515 kB
Application Note: ZEISS ZEN core
Fast Routine Investigation of Additive-manufactured Al-Si Samples
pages: 5
file size: 3302 kB
Application Note: ZEN core
Quality Inspection of Weld Connections
pages: 8
file size: 1531 kB
Detection, Quantification and Advanced Characterization of Non-metallic Inclusions in Steels
Detection, Quantification and Advanced Characterization of Non-metallic Inclusions in Steels. Description of NMI module in ZEN Core software.
pages: 10
file size: 1138 kB
In Situ Microscopy on the Melting and Cooling Behavior of an Al-Si 12 Alloy Using ZEISS ZEN core
pages: 6
file size: 2153 kB
Microscopy in Metal Failure Investigations
Determine the root cause of metal failure and learn about microscopy tool set for any metal failure investigation
pages: 8
file size: 4315 kB
ZEN core - Application Note
Quantitative Structural Analysis of CFRP Components Using ZEISS ZEN core
pages: 4
file size: 2036 kB
ZEN 2 core Quick Guide
pages: 24
file size: 1702 kB
Obtenga imágenes. Sin complicaciones. - Flyer (Spanish Version)
Software de microscopía de ZEISS para la rutina de laboratorio
pages: 4
file size: 1537 kB
ZEISS ZEN core (Italian Version)
La linea di software per microscopia connessa, dai laboratori di materiali alla produzione
pages: 33
file size: 15005 kB
ZEN 2 core (Russian Version)
Краткое руководство
pages: 26
file size: 3662 kB
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