Aphelion (software)

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, such as:
- security (surveillance, object tracking)
- remote sensing
- quality control for the industry and inspection applications
- materials science
- life sciences (medicine and biology)
- earth science (geology)
- theory (image processing, machine learning and optimization)

## Specifications

All products of the Aphelion Imaging Software Suite can be run on Personal computer equipped with Windows (Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, or 10) 32 or 64 bits.
An online help and video tutorials are available to the user.

## Software extensions

Below is a list of Aphelion optional extensions:
- 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  software product.
- 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 that have been automatically recorded to process a batch of images. He/she can also add plugins and libraries in the  that have been developed outside the Aphelion environment.

## Software versions

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|width="50%"|Software release|width="50%"|Release date|
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|Aphelion 1.0|1995|||
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|Aphelion 2.0 <small>first official version</small> || 1996||||
|Aphelion 2.1|1996–1997|||
|Aphelion 2.2|1997|||
|Aphelion 2.3|1998–1999|||
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|Aphelion 3.0|1999–2000|||
|Aphelion 3.1|December 2001|||
|Aphelion 3.2a-f|2001–2004|||
|Aphelion 3.2g|March 2004|||
|Aphelion 3.2h|November 2004|||
|Aphelion 3.2i|March 2006|||
|Aphelion 3.2j|October 2008 – 2012|||
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|Aphelion 4.0.0|July 2009|||
|Aphelion 4.0.5|December 2009|||
|Aphelion 4.0.6|May 2010|||
|Aphelion 4.0.7|August 2010|||
|Aphelion 4.0.8|October 2010|||
|Aphelion 4.0.9|February 2011|||
|Aphelion 4.0.10|April 2011|||
|Aphelion 4.1.0|October 2011|||
|Aphelion 4.1.1|April 2012|||
|Aphelion 4.1.2|November 2012|||
|Aphelion 4.2.0|February 2013|||
|Aphelion 4.2.1|January 2014|||
|Aphelion 4.3.0|October 2014|||
|Aphelion 4.3.1|December 2014|||
|Aphelion 4.3.2|September 2015|||
|Aphelion 4.4.0|October 2017|||
|Aphelion 4.5.0|February 2021|||
|Aphelion 4.6.0|October 2022|||
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## Infobox (software)

- **name**: Aphelion Imaging Software Suite
- **screenshot**: AphelionDevScreenshot.PNG
- **caption**: Aphelion Dev graphical user interface
- **developer**: ADCIS French company
- **latest release version**: 4.6.1
- **status**: Active
- **programming language**: C Sharp (programming language), C sharp, C++
- **operating system**: Microsoft Windows, Windows
- **genre**: Image processing
- **license**: Proprietary software, Proprietary commercial software