Aphelion™ Version History
Aphelion™ 3.2i
Caen, France, March 15th, 2006 - ADCIS S.A. 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 for 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™ 3.2h
Caen, France, November 15th, 2004 - ADCIS S.A. 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 for 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™ 3.2g
Caen, France, March 15th, 2004 - ADCIS S.A. 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 for 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™ 3.2f
Caen, France, October 30th, 2002 - ADCIS S.A. 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).
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| 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)
Aphelion™ 3.1e
Starting December 15th 2001, the most current version of Aphelion™ shipped to all new customers is version 3.1e.
The major improvements between this latest release, and version 3.0g are the following:
- Aphelion™ Image Editor for interactive modification of Aphelion™ binary images and ObjectSets to improve segmentation results
- Enhanced ActiveX components for image capture, processing, and display
- More Visual Basic and Visual C++ examples to get users started even faster
- Advanced statistical information added to Aphelion™ ObjectSets
- New drivers implementing Windows Video Capture driver and enhanced TWAIN
- Frame grabber support for the latest boards from Integral Technologies (e.g., FlashPoint 3D Pro) and for the Leutron Picport Color
- Support of the Intel microscope QX3 through the Windows Video Capture driver
- Full compatibility with current versions of Windows (95/98/Me, NT/2000, and XP)
- Gamma correction of images
- Support of String attributes in the Object Sets
- New BasicScript commands for adding custom Look Up Tables, loading DLLs at run time, customizing the new "Macro" menu to quickly organize macros
- Possibility to attach an ApxImage control to existing data in DIB format
- And much more
Aphelion™ 3.1 is still available in the following attractively priced configurations:
- Aphelion™ developer license for end users
- Aphelion™ site license for multiple machines at a single site
- Aphelion™ ActiveX components available as a complete library or as individual units
Contact your local Aphelion™ representative to receive the latest Aphelion™ pricing schedule and the additional optional modules you may need in your application.
And do not forget to connect to the Aphelion™ web site frequently to learn about the latest Aphelion™ versions.
Aphelion™ 3.0g
Last quarter of 1999, ADCIS and Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc. announced version 3.0 of Aphelion™, the latest version of the software product which is more than just another image analysis package.
From the same user-friendly environment, the user has access to the largest library of operators in the industry available for every class of images, including: symbolic processing to manipulate features extracted from images, fuzzy-logic and statistical based classifications to extract objects from images, advanced mathematical morphology algorithms, and measurement extraction. A built-in Visual Basic scripting language, a fully customizable charting package, a spreadsheet and hardware and MMX support are also included in the basic package.
The latest version of Aphelion™ provides many important new features, including:
- Availability of the Image Processing/Understanding/Display libraries as ActiveX components, callable from Visual Basic, Delphi, Java, for easy integration in 3rd party applications
- Additional segmentation tools such as Snakes and Color Thresholding techniques
- Texture Analysis tools to classify images
- Enhanced printing capabilities to generate high-quality reports
- Additional frame grabber support, such as the Integral Technologies FlashBus, and the new Matrox Meteor boards
- Integration in the Windows 98/2000 environment
- Additional module for Comet Assay analysis
- And much more ...
Contact your local dealer to learn more about Aphelion™ 3.0.
All active users with a maintenance support can get Aphelion™ 3.0 as part of their agreement. Other users can purchase an upgrade version.