ADCIS - Software products and custom development in the fields of image processing and analysis

• Aphelion 4.1
• Aphelion 4.0
• Aphelion 3.2
• Aphelion 3.1
• Aphelion 3.0

Aphelion^® Version 4.1.1

Saint-Contest, France, April 2012 - Official release of version 4.1.1 of Aphelion™ Dev.

Aphelion^® Version 4.1.0

Saint-Contest, France, October 2011 - Official release of version 4.1.0 of Aphelion™ Dev and SDK.

New extensions of Aphelion™ Dev:

• Driver for IDS Imaging uEye camera series (USB and Ethernet models)

Main changes between version 4.0.10 and version 4.1.0:

• Major re-implementation of the ObjectSet code to provide new capabilities: Sub-attributes of complex attributes (spatial and vector attributes) and image attributes
• New Basic/Script functions (Chart and Overlay related functions, Aph4MissingParameter to open the function dialog window during the macro execution, invocation of C#, VB.NET, and Python functions)
• Improvement of the display speed of large images
• New mathematical functions for images (Sin, Cos, Tan, ASin, ACos, ATan)
• New arithmetic functions for ObjectSets (Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide)
• Improvement of the Graphical User Interface of Classifier Builder (Added toolbar and automatic selection of the attributes)
• New items in the Chart contextual menu: Save and Properties
• Two new buttons in the Function panel: The first one to access the recently used functions and the second one to display the Help on the currently selected function
• Images can be loaded/saved from/to multi-page TIFF files
• 3D images can be saved to multi-page PDF files (3D Image Processing extension is required)
• Support of cylindrical and ellipsoidal 3D shapes (3D Image Display extension is required)
• Support of the type Text for graphic objects
• And other features described in the readme file included in the Aphelion Dev setup program

Aphelion^® Version 4.0.10

Hérouville Saint-Clair, France, April 2011 - Official release of version 4.0.10 of Aphelion™ Dev, SDK, and Lab.

New extensions of Aphelion™ Dev:

• 3D Skeletonization
• Image Annotator
• Virtual Image Stitcher

Main changes between version 4.0.9 and version 4.0.10:

• Import of the administrator configuration defined in the previous 4.0.x version
• Added functions: WeightedDistance, SplitVectorAttribute, and synchronization between the ImageView and the grid of an objectset in the Developer task.
• Added features in the 3D Image Display extension: 3D chain support and object pickable.
• Added functions supported by Basic/Script.

Aphelion™ Version 4.0.9

Hérouville Saint-Clair, France, February 2011 - Official release of version 4.0.9 of Aphelion™ Dev, SDK, and Lab. On February 4, 2011, the 64 bit version of Basic/Script is added to version 4.0.9.

New extensions of Aphelion™ Dev:

• MultiFocus: This new version includes an additional method to extract focused areas
• Image Registration
• Fuzzy Logic Classifier (callable from ClassifierBuilder)

Main changes between version 4.0.8 and version 4.0.9:

• Support of the subsampling factor to display 3D images using less memory (3D Image Display extension)
• ObjectSets logic functions
• Added measurements (projection, weighted centroids)
• Startup scripts (user-defined from the Tools>Options...>Startup menu)
• Plug-in selection from the Tools>Options...>Plugins menu
• Pop-up of the operator contextual help by clicking the F1 keybutton
• Availability of Basic/Script in the 64 bit version of Aphelion

Aphelion™ Version 4.0.8

Hérouville Saint-Clair, France, October 2010 - Availability of the update version 4.0.8 of Aphelion™ Dev and Lab.

New extensions of Aphelion™ Dev:

• 3D Image Display
• ClassifierBuilder
• Neural Network Toolkit

Main changes between version 4.0.7 and version 4.0.8:

• Improved File menu
• Added function to import 3D data (available in the 3D Image Processing extension)
• Added contextual menu in the Image Gallery
• Added settingsParamétrages supplémentaires (Tools>Options...>Advanced)

Aphelion™ Version 4.0.7

Hérouville Saint-Clair, France, August 2010 - Availability of the update version 4.0.7 of Aphelion Dev.

Main changes between version 4.0.6 and version 4.0.7:

• Image View Synchronisation (same zooming and scrolling can be applied to a set of user-selected image views)
• Added wrapper to compile and debug C# and VB.NET scripts using development environment such as Visual Studio and SharpDevelop

Aphelion™ Version 4.0.6

Hérouville Saint-Clair, France, May 2010 - ADCIS, and Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc. announce the availability of Aphelion Dev version 4.0, the flagship product of the Aphelion™ Imaging Software Suite software product. After the launch of the SDK and Lab versions, the new release of Aphelion™ Dev, formely named Developer, is now available. This major release of Aphelion Dev includes the following new features and improvements:

• 64-bit support to address and process large images
• Context-based user interfaces facilitate productive use of the software
• Over than 50 measurements
• 4 available macro command languages (BasicScript^{®, Python®, Visual Basic®, and Visual C#®)}
• Drawing tools enable feature measurements, even when segmentation is difficult
• Administrator and User modes foster Good Laboratory Practices
• Support of FireWire cameras1 and cameras compliant to the DirectShow interface

New extension of Aphelion™ Dev:

• 3D Image Processing

1 Compliant with the IIDC 1394 Digital Camera Specification version 1.31 as published by the 1394 Trade Association.

Aphelion™ Version 4.0.5

Hérouville Saint-Clair, France, December 2009 - ADCIS, and Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc. launch Aphelion™ SDK, the second product of the Aphelion™ Imaging Software Suite. Aphelion SDK, update version of Aphelion Core 3.2, is a set of image processing and image analysis functions provided as DLLs (native code) and .NET components (managed code).

Main improvements provided by Aphelion SDK compared to Aphelion Core:

• 64-bit architecture support allowing to address large data processing
• .NET compliant to improve the efficiency to develop image-based applications
• Python1 support
• Outils de dessin dédiés à la mesure

1 IronPython support.

Aphelion™ Version 4.0.0

Hérouville Saint-Clair, France, July 2009 - ADCIS, and Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc. launch Aphelion™ Lab, inaugurating the Aphelion™ Imaging Software Suite. Aphelion Lab introduces a new user interface with its context-based user interfaces that facilitate productive use of the software.

Context-based interfaces are available for the following tasks:

• Definition of calibration profiles
• Image acquisition (FireWire cameras1 and DirectShow compatible cameras can be controlled from this interface)
• Object extraction
• Object edition
• Measurement computation on extracted objects and interactive measurement tools
• Report generation

1 Compliant with the IIDC 1394 Digital Camera Specification version 1.31 as published by the 1394 Trade Association.

Aphelion™ Version 3.2j

Hérouville Saint-Clair, France, October 23rd, 2008 - ADCIS, and Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc. announce the availability of version 3.2j of the Aphelion™ imaging software product. This new version of Aphelion™ includes the following new features and improvements:

• Support of the LZW non destrutive compression in TIFF file fromat
• IEEE1394 driver: Support of CMU 1394 Digital Camera Driver version 6.4.5 to interface both IEEE1394a and IEEE1394b camera devices
• DirectShow (WDM) driver
• Improvement of the interface to the Leica DFC cameras
• Improvement of the software protection to fully support Windows^® Vista

Aphelion™ Version 3.2i

Caen, France, March 15th, 2006 - ADCIS, and Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc., announce the availability of version 3.2i of the Aphelion™ imaging software product. This new version of Aphelion™ includes the following new features:

New modules and tools available of Aphelion™ 3.2i:

• 3D Skeletonization module - An ActiveX component to generate a 3D skeleton of a tree-like 3D structure. It can be used from the Aphelion™ GUI or from a stand-alone application developed in the Visual Basic or C++ environment.

Other new benefit provided by Aphelion™ 3.2i include:

• Support of Leica™ DC and DFC digital cameras (option available in Rev.4 or later only)
• Support of Diagnostic Instruments™ Spot Insight digital cameras (option available in Rev.4 or later only)
• Support of IDS™ Falcon/Eagle frame grabber board

Aphelion™ Version 3.2h

Caen, France, November 15th, 2004 - ADCIS, and Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc., announce the availability of version 3.2h of the Aphelion™ imaging software product. This new version of Aphelion™ includes the following new features:

New modules and tools available of Aphelion™ 3.2h:

• Microscopy Tool - Tool to control the automatic stage of an optical microscope from a stand-alone application
• Color Module - Module to extract image features using powerful color segmentation techniques

Other new benefits provided by Aphelion™ 3.2h include:

• Support of Matrox Meteor II DIG
• Support of up to 2.4 Gigabytes of memory to let the user process larger 3D images in Aphelion™
• A set of new operators and macro functions such as an operator which reconstructs a focused image from a set of unfocused images, or a function to compute the covariance matrix on a color image
• Operator to translate 3D objects in the 3D space
• New morphological operator to compute the extended regional maxima and minima

Aphelion™ Version 3.2g

Caen, France, March 15th, 2004 - ADCIS, and Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc., announce the availability of version 3.2g of the Aphelion™ imaging software product. This new version of Aphelion™ includes many new features and a set of new optional modules for vertical markets and specific needs.

New modules and tools available of Aphelion™ 3.2g include:

• Image Montage - Construct a mosaic image from sub-images
• Kriging Module - Filter noisy images
• Measurement Tool - Perform manual measurements in images
• Microscopy Tool - Control an automatic microscope from a stand-alone application
• Multifocus - Create a sharp image from multiple, unfocused images
• Color Module - Extract image features using powerful color segmentation techniques

Other new benefits provided by Aphelion™ 3.2g include:

• Support of 16-bit color image acquisition
• Support of Euclidian distance and new Structuring Elements in the Morphology component
• Import of 3D images to be processed by the Aphelion™ 3D Image Processing module
• Computation of measurements based on texture analysis
• Support of the Aphelion™ ActiveX components in the Microsoft .NET environment
• Full compatibility with the latest versions of Windows.
• Support of Matrox Meteor II CameraLink, Integral Technologies FlashBus DX, Coreco/Imaging PC2Vision, and Firewire IEEE1394 devices

Aphelion™ Version 3.2f

Caen, France, October 30th, 2002 - ADCIS, and Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc., announce the availability of version 3.2 of the Aphelion™ imaging software system, including two new optional modules for 3D Image Processing and 3D Image Display.

Most of Aphelion™'s 2D image processing operators are supported in the 3D environment and are now available to everyone needing to process volumetric data. Also available in Aphelion™'s 3D environment are transforms such as convolution, addition, subtraction, maximum, erosion, dilation, distance function, labeling, watershed, and threshold. Analysis of 3D images is supported by 3D measurements and 3D ObjectSet.

To display 3D images in user applications, Aphelion™ 3.2 provides an Image Display module available as an ActiveX component with the following capabilities:

• Display of a 3D object as a set of slices, a composite object or an isosurface
• Control of the light and location of the camera
• Control of the display context (intensity, zoom, etc.)
• Cross sections in X, Y and Z directions
• Control of the LUT and the light intensity
• Mouse or keyboard control of the 6 degrees of freedom

Image courtesy of Synchrotron of ESRF (Grenoble). Collaboration between GEMPPM (INSA, Lyon) and
Center of Mathematical Morphology (Fontainebleau), within the scope of a CNRS Material Science Program (project 104)

With these two powerful modules for 3D image processing and 3D display, images acquired from a sensor device, such as a transmission electronic microscope, a confocal microscope, a medical scanner, or any 3D device, can now be easily processed, analyzed, and displayed using the Aphelion™ Graphical User Interface.

Aphelion™'s extensive image display capabilities have been enhanced by adding 3D display to its Image Viewer component. The three figures below show the effects of two 3D image processing operators applied to a 3D image (left), visualization of the resulting 3D image after a dilation by an octahedron of size three (center), and after a 3D FFT (right).

Original image Courtesy of Kitware, Inc.	Dilation by an octahedron of size three	3D Fast Fourier Transform

Aphelion™ 3.2's new 3D capabilities maintain the general "look and feel" of Aphelion™'s popular GUI. Users with 3D research projects or who are developing applications with 3D imaging content will find the 3D tools available in Aphelion™ 3.2 indispensable to timely, effective completion of their work.

Demonstration movies

• 3D Image Display  (6.2 Mb)
• 3D Image Processing  (7.0 Mb)