With the release of arivis Vision4D 3.4, the way voxel operations store and use the processed results has changed to allow more flexibility in pipeline creation. As mentioned in the introduction, by default, voxel processing operations and segment operations use the last state of the channel being used. This means that, for example, if a pipeline adds a denoising filter followed by a morphology filter, the morphology filter is based on the denoised image and any operation that comes after will use the result of the morphology operation. In 3.4 it is possible to enable advanced pipeline handling operations so that this is not necessarily the case and users can choose to run some operations on previous versions of the channel data, or even on the raw data if required.
Advanced Result Storage options
Enabling extended channel selection
The option for advanced channel handling can be found in theAnalysis section of the Preferences. This can be accessed either through the Pipeline Management menu or from the Extras menu.
Once this option has been enabled, added options will be available for channel selection and result storage in the pipeline.
Using extended channel selection
With the extended channel selection enabled, three changes will occur.
First, each voxel operation will get its own output saving option. In the operation menu, users can select the Save Voxel Output... option and choose whether to save the result of this specific operation as a new document if needed. Additionally, by selecting Configure Output Channels, users can choose whether the output will be available as a new channel that can be used independently of the original.
Second, each operation will now have additional options in the channel input selection.
Users can then choose which version of that channel image to use for this operation. This is available for any pipeline operation that uses channel data (voxel operations, segment generation, region growing, etc.).
And finally, the Results Storage operation will also get more options in the manual channel selection.