Field of View (FOV)

A Field of View is one acquisition frame — the spatial region the camera images at a single stage position. The dimensions are determined by the camera sensor, the objective magnification, and the optical path. For whole-slide imaging, an entire slide is acquired as a grid of FOVs (sometimes hundreds, sometimes thousands), tiled at adjacent positions and combinedLoading... into a single composite. StrataQuest engines come in two flavors with respect to FOVs: per-FOV (local) engines run independently on each tile and concatenate results — fast, parallelizable, but objects spanning tile boundaries get split into separate detections; cross-FOV (global) engines treat the stitched image as a single field — slower, less parallelizable, but objects spanning boundaries are detected as one. The engine's documentation will name which it is.