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 
alt=Aphelion Dev graphical user interface version 4.x with details about utility of regions of the interface|thumb|400x400px|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  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 
+ Aphelion software release dates Software release Release date Aphelion 1.0  1995 Aphelion 2.0first official version  1996 Aphelion 2.1  1996–1997 Aphelion 2.2  1997 Aphelion 2.3  1998–1999 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 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 2014Aphelion 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
alt=GUI of a previous version of Aphelion (version 3.2j) with multiple detached windows per image (Multiple document interface).|thumb|left|400x400px|GUI of a previous version of Aphelion (version 3.2j).

 Notes and references 

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