The Aphelion Imaging Software Suite is a set of computer programs for image processing and image analysis. It includes three base products: Aphelion Lab, Aphelion Dev, and Aphelion SDK.
The Aphelion software product can be used to prototype applications using the graphical user interface. It provides a set of tools for programmers which have to develop software with image analysis needs.
Applications
The Aphelion Imaging Software Suite is used by students, researchers, engineers, and software developers in application domains requiring image processing and computer vision,[1][2] such as:
theory (image processing, machine learning and optimization)
Specifications
Aphelion Dev Graphical User Interface version 4.x: (1) Task Bar, (2) Image Display, (3) Macro editing window/Function window, (4) Charts (a profile is displayed in this example), (5) Image Gallery, (6) Measurement grid.
All products of the Aphelion Imaging Software Suite can be run on PC equipped with Windows (Vista, 7, 8, 8.1,[3] or 10) 32 or 64 bits.[4]
An online help[5] and video tutorials are available to the user.[6]
Software extensions
Below is a list of Aphelion optional extensions:[7][8]
3D Image Processing and 3D Image Display: A set of extensions to display and process 3D images. The 3D display extension is based on the VTK software product.[9]
3D Skeletonization: Extension to compute the 3D skeleton.
Image Registration: Image registration extension to register images coming from different acquisition devices.
Classification Tools: Classification extension including a « Fuzzy Logic » (fuzzy logic classification),« Neural Networks » (classification based on neural networks), and « Random Forest » (classification based on random forests, derived from the R software product)
Kriging: Specific extension to remove image noise using geostatistics techniques.
Camera interface drivers and microscope interface software
Virtual Image Capture and Virtual Image Stitcher: Two software products to capture mult-field images and stitch them into one single and very large image in the fields of optical and electron microscopy (image stitching).
Stereology Analyzer: Software to analyze a very large image using stereology. This extension is mainly used in the field of biology on images acquired by a scan microscope.
VisionTutor: Online image processing course including all the theory and application macro commands that are compatible with Aphelion.
The Aphelion user can add his/her own macro-commands in the user interface[7] that have been automatically recorded to process a batch of images. He/she can also add plugins and libraries in the GUI that have been developed outside the Aphelion environment.[10]
Software versions
Below is a table providing release dates of the Aphelion software product:
↑Legland, David (March 2009). "Solutions logicielles pour le traitement d'images" [Softwares for addressing image processing] (PDF). INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) (in French). Retrieved 25 February 2016.
A coupling was carried out between a field-emission scanning electron microscope (JEOL, JSM-6500F), an energy-dispersive spectrometer (EDS) (PGT, detector SDD SAHARA) and image analysis software (APHELION).
Hellal, Fatah; et al. (February 2000). "Diffusion du carbone lors de la décomposition de l'austénite en ferrite et en graphite dans une fonte à graphite sphéroïdal" [Carbon dispersion during the decomposition of austenite into ferrite and graphite in a spheroidal graphite cast iron]. Canadian Journal of Physics (in French). 77 (9): 677–684. Bibcode:2000CaJPh..77..677H. doi:10.1139/p99-037.
Geandier, G.; et al. (December 2003). "Residual stresses in alumina-chromium composites: micromechanical analysis and study by X-ray diffraction". Revue de Métallurgie. 100 (12): 1163–1172. doi:10.1051/metal:2003185.
Moreaud, Maxime (10 April 2007). "Nanotomographie" [Nanotomography] (PDF). cmm.mines-paristech.fr (in French). Archived from the original(PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
[...] une solution complète d'alignement des projections et de reconstruction tomographique 3D a été développée et intégrée à la plateforme Aphelion. [ [...] a complete projection alignment and 3D reconstruction plug-in was developed and integrated to Aphelion.]
Bizet, L.; et al. (2004). "Serial sections through a continuous fiber-reinforced polymer composite". Image Analysis and Stereology. 23 (3): 167–176. doi:10.5566/ias.v23.p167-176. S2CID55132253.
However, they can be defined after simple morphological transformations on the digitized images of the microstructure: a closing is made on the fiber phase of the yarn by using the Aphelion software.
Yotte, S.; et al. (2004). "PMMC cluster analysis". Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences. 5 (2): 171–188. doi:10.3970/cmes.2004.005.171.
Léonard, Angélique; et al. (15 June 2005). "Image analysis of X-ray microtomograms of soft materials during convective drying: 3D measurements". Journal of Microscopy. 218 (3): 247–252. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2818.2005.01485.x. PMID15958018. S2CID46242660.
Specific programs were developed using Aphelion 3.2f (Adcis S.A.) and Matlab software, with image analysis toolbox version 6.0 from Mathworks (Natick, MA).
Lambert, Jérôme; et al. (February 2005). "Extraction of relevant physical parameters from 3D images of foams obtained by X-ray tomography". Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 263 (1–3): 295–302. doi:10.1016/j.colsurfa.2005.01.002.
The ratio between the surface of bisbenzimide staining and the surface of specific immunostaining was measured by using a software Aphelion 3.2 from Adcis (Herouville Saint Clair, France).
Une routine de traitement d'images, développée dans l'environnement du logiciel boîte à outils Aphelion (ADCIS) permet de donner une appréciation objective du degré de vascularisation moyen et maximal de la tumeur. [An image analysis macro-command, developed in the Aphelion (ADCIS) toolbox software, allows to appreciate objectively the mean and maximum grades of tumor vascularisation.]
Les logiciels utilisés pour réaliser ce travail sont les suivants : (a) APHELION v.3.2 pour le traitement d'images 2D, la reconstruction 3D et les mesures 2D et 3D, [...] [Softwares used to accomplish this work are: (a) APHELION v.3.2 for 2D image analysis, 3D reconstruction, and 2D and 3D measurements, [...] ]
Percentage of wound area was measured using Aphelion Dev image processing and analysis software developed by ADCIS S.A.
Hatem, I.; et al. (June 2003). "Cartilage and bone segmentation in vertebra images". Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. 46 (5). doi:10.13031/2013.15436.
Kriston-Vizi, Janos; et al. (2004). "Biometrical approaches for mandarin leaf image analysis". Applied Ecology and Environmental Research. 2 (2): 119–134. doi:10.15666/aeer/02119134.
For image analysis the Aphelion software package was used made by Adcis SA and AAI Inc.
The 2D garnet distributions and garnet shapes were determined using the Aphelion image analysis program
Riss, Joëlle; et al. (6 February 2003). Taille et Forme des cristaux de quartz dans une géode du forage EPS1 de Soultz-sous-Forêts [Size and shape of quartz grains in a geode providing from drill EPS1 of Soultz-sous-Forêts]. 25th conference of the French Stereology Society (in French).
A., Hosni; et al. (13–15 October 2003). Coupled THM modelling of the stimulated permeable fractures in the near well at the Soultz-sous-Forêts site (France). Geoproc 2003, International Conference on Coupled T-H-M-C Processes in Geosystems. Elsevier Geo-Engineering Book Series. Vol. 2. Stockholm. pp. 665–670. doi:10.1016/S1571-9960(04)80116-2. ISBN9780080445250. ISSN1571-9960.
Software already used by the author which implement cylindrically shaped colour models include: Matlab release 12.1, Aphelion 3.0, Optimas 6.1 and Paint Shop Pro 7.
