New & Noteworthy
- AI-assisted Spine Tracing: automated spine detection using pre-trained Al models or other methods.
- Enhanced Cell Measurements: expanded measurement capabilities enabling richer feature sets.
- Native CZI Support: open, visualize and analyze CZI data, with no intermediate conversion steps needed.
- Remote Docker: run instance segmentation with the help of a satellite / remote Linux system.
Deep Learning / Machine Learning
- new: DL Trainer preview - verify the trained model right in the DL trainer panel
- new: tile blending option for DL reconstruction operation
- new: option to specify the normalization range to be applied on the data before inference
- new: confidence feature value for instance segmentation results
- new: option to run instance segmentation with the help of a remote Docker engine
- new: arivis Cloud preference page
- new: option to adjust normalization range for Cellpose operation
- improved: improved consistency for CUDA based calculations (e.g. Cellpose)
- improved: better help and guidance for running instance segmentation based on ZEISS arivis Cloud models
- improved: AI model store sorts list by creation time now
- improved: AI models store displays the model's author
- improved: do not show and store arivis Cloud access token in clear text anymore
- improved: order of classes in the DL trainer is reversed (the same as in arivis Cloud now)
- fix: prevent "Could not reach the instance segmentation service" for some specific Docker setups
- fix: ML Segmenter - under some conditions, segments were not found on the last plane
- removed: sync with channel visibility in ML Trainer
Tracing
- new: Spine Tracer operation to detect spines and extend existing traces
- new: AI assisted spine detection in the Spine Tracer operation
- new: spine counting and spine density object features
- new: SWC export respects selection
- fix: Neuron Tracer - make sure all neurites are connected to a cell body (if configured)
Analysis & Objects
- new: SD (standard deviation) added for a lot of features
- new: morphological segment features (convex hull, cross section area, equivalent ellipse projection, maximum inscribed sphere, inscribed disk)
- new: additional 2D segment features (symmetry 2D, Feret projection, convex hull projection)
- improved: Seeded Region Growing supports more and larger seeds
- improved: object styles parent filter allows to select trace type
- improved: updated ITK version (fixes cancellation issues)
- improved: progress in the Store Objects operation during surface pre-calculation
- improved: error handling in the Import Surfaces dialog
- improved: group statistics for traces
- improved: more detailed descriptions for object feature calculations in the help
4D-Viewer
- new: arivis Pro tries to active high performance graphics automatically
- improved: optimized progressive strategy for object visualization
- improved: surface calculation creates smoother objects with less terracing artefacts
- improved: selection of objects behind an active clipping plane
- improved: unified memory limit warnings for traces and segments
- improved: performance for the track tool in 4D
- fix: avoid block artefacts for storyboard movies with time series data
Data Handling & Import
- new: open CZI data natively without the need for import
- new: Thermo Fisher CellInsight CX7 media handler
- improved: background correction performance for large data
- improved: Meta Image Series / ImageXpress import
- improved: support for JPEG2000 compressed TIFF data
- fix: image set names for well plate datasets (e.g. from ImageXpress or Yokogawa)
- fix: potential import problems for 32bit float TIFF data
- fix: problems importing multimodal Yokogawa data
- fix: some VSI were imported with a wrong channel order
- fix: potential problems with export objects as labelled images
- fix: import *.am data from Avizio
- fix: import of stitched LaVision datasets
General
- new: unified Pan tool (previously Drag tool in 2D)
- new: allow panning in 2D and 4D Viewer (independent of the active tool) by middle mouse drag
- fix: prevent selection of non editable objects in the Draw Tool (e.g. track or trace)
- removed: deprecated Python script API functions ImageSet.get_pixel and ImageSet.set_pixel
- switched to .Net 8 * numerous additional bug fixes and stability improvements