3D Extension Modules: Display, Process, and Analyze 3D Images
Download the datasheetAphelion™ users can now effectively process and display 3D images using virtually the same processing and analysis power provided for 2D images. The Aphelion™ product family now includes two optional modules for these functions: the 3D Image Display Module and the 3D Image Processing & Analysis Module. Using these powerful modules, images acquired from sensor devices such as transmission electron microscopes, confocal microscopes, medical scanners, and other 3D devices, can be easily processed, analyzed, and displayed using the Aphelion™ Graphical User Interface.
3D Image Display Module
Aphelion™ Developer's extensive image display capabilities have been enhanced by adding 3D display to its Image Viewer component. The three images below show different modes of 3D image visualization. The new Aphelion™ 3D capabilities maintain the general look and feel of the popular Aphelion™ GUI. Users with 3D research projects or who are developing applications with 3D imaging content will find the Aphelion™ 3D tools indispensable to timely, effective completion of their work. Note, the 3D Image Display Module requires the installation of the 3D Image Processing Module.
The 3D Image Display module also includes the Aphelion™ AVI® Recorder, to record movies that capture changes in a 3D object, such as rotations, light position and intensity, and visualization modes.
These movies can be saved as AVI files, or as series of TIFF®, JPEG®, or bitmap files to be easily integrated in presentations and web pages.
Image courtesy of Synchrotron of ESRF (Grenoble). Collaboration between GEMPPM (INSA, Lyon) and Center of Mathematical Morphology (Fontainebleau).
Adding 3D Image Display to your application is easy with the Aphelion™ 3D Image Display Module. This Module is available as an ActiveX® component with the following capabilities:
- Display a 3D object as a set of slices, composite object, or isosurface
- Control light sources and viewing angles
- Control display context (intensity, zoom, etc.)
- Display cross-sections in X, Y and Z directions
- Control look-up tables and light intensities
- Mouse/keyboard control of 6 degrees of freedom
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| 3D image of beet displayed in isosurface mode. Image courtesy of INRA POI, Nantes, France | 3D image of cells displayed in composite mode. Image courtesy of GRECAN, Caen, France | 3D simulation displayed in composite mode with cropping |
3D Image Processing Module
The Aphelion™ 2D image processing operators have been enhanced to handle 3D data including, for example, convolution, addition, subtraction, maximum, erosion, dilation, distance function, labeling, watershed, and threshold. Analysis of 3D images is supported by 3D measurements and 3D ObjectSet.
Operators Included in the Aphelion™ 3D Image Processing and Analysis Module
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Analysis ImgArea ImgAutoCorrelate ImgBandHistogram ImgBoundingBox ImgCompare ImgCorrelateWithTemplate ImgCountObjects ImgCrossCorrelate ImgFirstPoint ImgHistogram ImgLocalVariance ImgMoments ImgProfile ImgRange ImgTrace ImgVolume ObjAttributeRatio ObjHistogram ObjMoments ObjShape (Volume, Surface, Intercepts, Compactness, Sphericity) RegionStatistics Arithmetic/Logic ImgAbs ImgACos ImgAdd ImgAddConstant ImgAnd ImgASin ImgATan ImgBitAnd ImgBitDifference ImgBitNot ImgBitOr ImgBitXNor ImgBitXOr ImgBlend ImgCos ImgDivide ImgExp ImgExp10 ImgInvert ImgLeftShift ImgLog ImgLog10 ImgLogicalDifference ImgMask ImgMaximum ImgMinimum |
ImgMultiply ImgMultiplyConstant ImgNAnd ImgNOr ImgNot ImgOr ImgRemainder ImgRightShift ImgSin ImgSqr ImgSqrt ImgSubtract ImgSubtractConstFloor ImgTan ImgXNOr ImgXOr Edge Detection ImgExternalGradient ImgInternalGradient ImgLaplacian ImgMorphGradient Filtering ImgBoxFilter ImgConvolve ImgGaussianFilter ImgHighPass3x3 ImgHighPass5x5 ImgHighPass7x7 ImgLaplacian ImgLaplacian3x3 ImgLaplacian5x5 ImgLaplacian7x7 ImgLowPass3x3 ImgLowPass5x5 ImgLowPass7x7 ImgMedian ImgMedian3x3 ImgMedian5x5 ImgMode ImgMode3x3 ImgRankValueFilter ImgWallisFilter Frequency Domain ImgFFT ImgInverseFFT Image Utilities ImgClear ImgClip ImgCopy |
ImgCreateGaussianNoise ImgCreateUniformNoise ImgCut ImgEqualizeHistogram ImgFill ImgFrame ImgFree ImgFreeAll ImgImport ImgLinearScale ImgMapThroughLUT ImgMultipleSubCopy ImgPaste ImgRead ImgReadSlices ImgSetName ImgSetType ImgSubCopy ImgWrite ImgWriteSlices Mathematical Morphology ImgAddReconsClose ImgAlternateSequential ImgAreaClose ImgAreaOpen ImgAutoMedian ImgBorderKill ImgBorderKillAndHoleFill ImgCatchmentBasins ImgClose ImgConstrainedCatchmentBasins ImgConstrainedWatershed ImgDilate ImgDilateReconsClose ImgErode ImgErodeReconsOpen ImgEuclideanDistance ImgExtendedRegionalMaxima ImgExtendedRegionalMinima ImgGeodesicDilate ImgGeodesicGraphDistance ImgGraphDistance ImgHoleFill ImgLocalMaxima ImgLocalMinima ImgMorphContrast ImgOpen ImgOpenSkeleton ImgReconstruct ImgRegionalMaxima ImgRegionalMinima ImgSubtractReconsOpen |
ImgUltimateErodedSet ImgWatershed Object Processing RegionClose RegionDilate RegionErode RegionOpen RegionOverlap Object Utilities ObjAppend ObjCopy ObjDeleteAttribute ObjExport ObjFilter ObjFree ObjFree ObjFreeAll ObjImport ObjMerge ObjRead ObjSpatialAttributeToImage ObjWrite Segmentation ImgAdaptivePercentileThreshold ImgBlackTophat ImgClustersObj ImgClustersSplitConvex ImgClustersToLabels ImgEntropyThreshold ImgEntropyThresholdObj ImgExtremaThreshold ImgHysteresisThreshold ImgHysteresisThresholdObj ImgLabelsObj ImgMomentThreshold ImgMomentThresholdObj ImgRegionGrow ImgRegionGrowObj ImgSeededRegionGrow ImgThreshold ImgThresholdObj ImgWhiteTophat Transforms ImgColorCompose ImgColorToRGB ImgScale |
Demonstration movies
- 3D image display (106 Mb)
- 3D image processing (115 Mb)