Release Notes

Version 4.5 2026-03-17

New features

• Improved: Import tiled LaVision FastTile Blaze data
• Improved: Normalization of the color range for CZI float datasets
• Support added for more compression types of HDF5 blocks (e.g. used by some IMS datasets)

Bugfixes

• Wrong tile positions for Perkin Elmer well plate data without orientation matrix specified in the metadata
• Import problems for data from Perkin Elmer Acapella
• Potential wrong colors were imported from some Aperio-SVS data
• Wrong pixel size imported from some Aperio-SVS data
• Import of different image types as channels from Yokogawa
• Import of BigDataViewer with non-consecutive setups
• Various smaller bug fixes and improvements

Version 4.3 2025-04-04

New features

• Thermo Fisher CellInsight CX7 media handler
• ImageXpress MetaSeries Single/Multi-plane TIFF media handler
• Well plate ID is imported from well plate file formats (e.g. InCell, Perkin Elmer, Yokogawa)
• Support for jpeg-compressed conversions
• Ability to stitch fields of a well during import (if positions are avialable e.g. in Yokogawa data)
• Media handler can be disabled/enabled on the fly now in the Preferences
• Enhanced System Check utility
• Improved: Meta Image Series / ImageXpress import
• Improved: support for JPEG2000 compressed TIFF data
• Improved: use emission filter name as fallback channel name for InCell XDCE data
• Improved: unified TIFF media handler improved: proper import pixel size Z from Yokogawa data
• Improved: better dimension handling for planes or time points in DICOM

Bug fixes

• Image set names for well plate datasets (e.g. from ImageXpress or Yokogawa)
• Potential import problems for 32bit float TIFF data
• Problems importing multimodal Yokogawa data
• Some VSI were imported with a wrong channel order
• Import *.am data from Avizio
• Import of stitched LaVision datasets
• Potential memory leak if writing (with compression) to a full disk
• Problems with subblocks in CZI imports
• Potential line break problems with ImageJ Tiff import
• Rare problems with unusual OME meta data
• Problems with Jpeg2000 compressed Olympus VSI files
• Incorrect channel names for imported VSI files
• Correct metadata for multiple image sets imported from LIF
• Potential import problems for Olympus OIR data
• Make sure a license is not blocked too long after closing SIS Converter
• Switched to .Net 8

Version 4.1 2023-05-04

New features

• Drag & Drop of folders including several files with the specification of conversion type - multiple input files to be merged or converted independently (1:1)
• Improved handling to avoid unintentional overwriting of image data
• Option to add data as new Image Sets if there is already a target file with the same name
• Define behavior if a target file already exists (Preference option)
• Import of Inspector OBF/MSR data
• Support for the newest LaVision OME format

Bug fixes

• Pixel size for multiple image sets using custom import
• CZI import with different pixel types (in one data set)
• Possible problem with Nikon ND2 import for pre-stitched data
• Avoid conversion history corruption
• Small UI glitches
• Separate Start Menu entries for the free and the pro version
• Avoid infinite loop with the same source and destination folders (SIS Converter PRO)
• Improved robustness for unexpected termination

Version 4.0 2022-10-24

New features

• Media handler for reading Perkin Elmer Operetta and Columbus datasets
• Support for ZSTD compression in CZI import
• Added details-part to dialog for 1-to-1 conversion after drag and drop
• Improved: import the names of the channels of an OME TIFF

Bug fixes

• License tool is not opened
• Possible out of bounds access for .msr/.obf files
• Bug which caused error message for certain .dcm files
• Bug for certain .vsi files concerning gamma-parameter range
• Problems with importing SVS files
• Scenes order for CZI imports
• Several smaller UI fixes

Version 3.5.1 2021-11-29

New features

• Support for importing ND2 float data
• General better support to import HCA well plate datasets
• Import of GE XDCE datasets
• Import of Yokogawa MLF and MMD datasets
• Improved: Support for Zeiss CZI well plate datasets
• Improved: Nikon ND2 import by using the latest ND2Read SDK
• Improved: Better support for importing Leica LEI time series
• Improved: Olympus import uses the latest IDAL library