Imaris Release Notes

Imaris 9.0.2 (2017 Oct 13)

• Fixed 3 bugs 

Imaris 9.0.1 (2017 Sept 07)

• Fixed 14 Bugs

Imaris 9.0.0 (2017 Jul 18)

• Surfaces capable of “Massive Model Rendering”
• Fast Surfaces Computation
• Surfaces render option “slicer”
• Transfer function for Blend and Normal Shading rendering
• Improved and faster automatic adjustment of Blend and Normal Shading settings
• Fast saving of Display Adjustment settings
• Display Adjustment improved Auto function
• Zooming and panning for all histograms
• Lineage Tree graphics export as tif and svg
• Predefined Size for snaphots
• Movie export using H264 video codec
• Migration of preference from old to new Imaris version
• New File Readers Aperio SVS
• New File Readers Hamamatsu NDPI
• Fixed 78 Bugs

Imaris 8.4.2 (2017 Jul 10)

• Fixed 1 Bug

Imaris 8.4.1 (2016 Dec 16)

• Fixed 14 Bugs

Imaris 8.4.0 (2016 Nov 10)

• ImarisFileConverter
• Filament Drawing Autopath
• Filament Drawing Autodepth
• Snapshot
• New Navigation Control in Surpass-3D View
• Graphics Memory Autodetection
• Display Adjustment improved Auto function
• Scalebar Position and Size
• Old Zoom Definition
• Parallel Spots Statistics Calculation
• Renaming of some function in Cells Edit Tab
• Possible to change color of Vantage 1D plot
• Statistics “Track Intensity Median” definition changed
• Exact Distance Transform
• New Filament Spine Statistics
• Easier access to some functions on Filament Edit Tab
• New Reference Frame Manipulators
• Supported Operating Systems
• 95 Bugs Fixed in 8.4

Imaris 8.3.1 (2016 Jun 20)

• Fixed 7 Bugs

Imaris 8.3.0 (2016 May 27)

• Membrane Based Cell Boundary Detection
• Cells Visualization improved
• Cells color options
• Lineage Tracking Algorithm “Maximum Overlap” for Cells
• Reference Frame Component
• Reference Frames affect Statistics Values
• Reference Frame Play Mode
• Tracking in Reference Frame Coordinates
• Cells Split option “One Nucleus per Cell”
• New Statistics Values
• Vantage 1D Statistical Tests
• XT works with new Matlab Component Runtime (MCR) versions
• Imaris without Arena
• Speedups from Parallel Watershed Algorithm
• Fixed 99 Bugs

Imaris 8.2.1 (2016 Apr 18)

• Fixed 3 Bugs

Imaris 8.2.0 (2015 Dec 16)

• Lineage Tracking Algorithm
• Track Editor with Lineage Tree Visualization
• Object Labeling for coloring and statistics export
• FileReaders
• Fast FileSave with parallel gzip compression
• Time Slider displays Frame Number
• ObjectIDs remain unchanged during edit and delete
• XTInterface
• Fixed 65 Bugs

Imaris 8.1.2 (2015 Jun 04)

• Fixed 6 Bugs

Imaris 8.1.1 (2015 May 21)

• Fixed 2 Bugs

Imaris 8.1.0 (2015 May 20)

• Imaris Main Menu
• Imaris Administrator
• Vantage : Vantage1D
• Arena Storage Functionality
• Vantage Statistics Trackback
• Arena Improvements
• FileReaders
• ImarisFileConverter
• Fixed 83 Bugs

Imaris 8.0.2 (2015 Mar 09)

• Fixed 11 Bugs

Imaris 8.0.1 (2014 Dec 08)

• Fixed 4 Bugs

Imaris 8.0.0 (2014 Nov 18)

• Arena View
• Filament Batch
• Opt-in Floating License
• Dark Theme
• Fixed 21 Bugs

Imaris 7.7.2 (2014 Jul 16)

• Batch Limitation
• Fixed 3 Bugs

Imaris 7.7.1 (2014 Apr 11)

• Fixed 33 Bugs

Imaris 7.7.0 (2014 Mar 12)

• Instant display of large time-series
• New Time-Bar
• Faster Spots Detection
• Cells wizard more easy to use
• Cells rendering quality improved
• New Filaments Spine statistics (same as Classifier)
• Store Statistics in IMS-File
• Fixed 35 Bugs

Imaris 7.6.5 (2013 Nov 13)

• Tiff series opening time improved for uncompressed tiff formats - faster file format detection
• Fixed 27 Bugs

Imaris 7.6.4 (2013 Jun 12)

• Zeiss CZI-File Reader Improvements
• Additional Filaments Spine Statistics
• Fixed 49 Bugs

Imaris 7.6.3 (2013 Apr 11)

• Fixed 1 Bug

Imaris 7.6.2 (2013 Apr 09)

• Developer License
• ImarisXT with Python
• Adjustable XTension Paths
• Boosted overlapping Spots-Merge
• Fixed 52 Bugs

Imaris 7.6.1 (2012 Dec 05)

• Measurement Points Centering
• Fixed 35 Bugs

Imaris 7.6.0 (2012 Oct 10)

• Vantage with Boxplots
• Support reading of Nikon ND2 V4 Images
• Faster calculation for Filament Radius, Spots Region Growing, Distance-XTensions
• Filaments wizard option to explicitly exclude dark image areas
• Fixed Filament Sholl-Analysis (properly handle twisted dendrites running towards Soma)
• Scientific number output, instead of 3 fixed digits (e.g. “1.23e-3” instead of “0.001”)
• Line angle measurement tool
• Fixed 11 Bugs

Imaris 7.5.2 (2012 Aug 22)

• 41 Bugs fixed

Imaris 7.5.1 (2012 Jul 04)

• 12 Bugs fixed

Imaris 7.5.0 (2012 Jun 13)

• New Algorithm for membrane-based Cells Detection
• Variable Vesicle Diameter
• Many new Cells Measurements
• Cells Usability Improvements (Preview, Wizard)
• Improved usability for Super Resolution XTensions (new Demo Image, Guide)
• Documentation for ALL 47 XTensions
• Elliptic Spot Detection in Z-Dimension
• Surfaces Bounding Box Measurements (axis aligned / object aligned)
• Configurable Time Stamp Display
• Color Maps Preview
• Combine / Merge Surpass Scenes
• New File Reader Zeiss CZI
• Fixed 94 Bugs

Imaris 7.4.2 (2012 Feb 21)

• 2 Bugs fixed

Imaris 7.4.1 (2012 Feb 17)

• 50 Bugs fixed

Imaris 7.4.0 (2011 Dec 14)

• NEW ImarisVantage VIEW
• Cells split BY Seed Points
• Filament AutoNetwork
• XTensions FOR SUPER Resolution
• Reader FOR Micromanager Images
• Improved handling FOR Multi-Image-Files
• 49 Bugs FIXED

Imaris 7.3.1 (2011 Aug 10)

• 31 Bugs fixed

Imaris 7.3.0 (2011 Jun 22)

• ImarisXT: for Mac (and Win)
• XTension: Similarity Statistics
• XTension: Vesicles outside Cells
• ImarisCell: Detection based on Membranes
• ImarisCell: Multiple Vesicle Types
• ImarisCell: Split Nuclei ny Seed Points
• ImarisCell: Relative Movement Statistics
• FilamentTracer: Creation Wizard Preview for all Time Points
• ImarisTrack: Single Click Manual Tracking
• ImarisTrack: Fill Gaps with Objects
• License Administrator
• Store and Recall Creation Parameter Sets
• Slidebook File Reader
• ZVI, OIB File Reader for Mac
• 94 Bugs fixed

Imaris 7.2.3 (2011 Apr 06)

• 2 Bugs fixed

Imaris 7.2.2 (2011 Mar 23)

• 43 Bugs fixed

Imaris 7.2.1 (2010 Dec 22)

• 17 Bugs fixed

Imaris 7.2.0 (2010 Dec 01)

• XTensions using Fiji / ImageJ (Win and Mac)
• Enhanced and uniform movie output for Mac, Win, x86, x64
• Andor iQ image reader with improved image selection dialog
• Undo for Spots, Surfaces, Cells, Filaments
• Surfaces Double Threshold
• Cells with option to "Fill Holes"
• Filaments with per Filament-Statistics (multiple begining points)
• Filament Statistical Annotations
• Drift Correction for Cells and Filament
• New File Reader: "Olympus VSI"
• 106 Bugs fixed

Imaris 7.1.1 (2010 Jul 13)

• 52 Bugs fixed

Imaris 7.1.0 (2010 Jun 14)

• Filament: Spine- and Dendrite-Tracking
• Track editor for Spots, Surfaces, Cells, and Filaments
• Statistics Annotations for InPress
• Andor iQ image disk reader
• Fast Scene Saving and Loading
• Image Preocessing: Arbitrary Rotation
• Rotational Drift Correction
• Fixed zoom level brightness changes
• Fixed many bugs related with multithreading
• 63 Bugs fixed

Imaris 7.0.0 (2010 Feb 15)

• New Product: ImarisCell
• FilamentTracer: new rebuild options
• Mouse wheel zoom
• Surpass scale bar
• 30 Bugs fixed

Imaris 6.4.2 (2009 Dec 18)

• 1 Bug fixed

Imaris 6.4.1 (2009 Dec 16)

• 35 Bugs fixed

Imaris 6.4.0 (2009 Nov 02)

• Imaris x64 for Macintosh
• Imaris Scene Viewer
• Single File for Image and Scene
• RGB Segmentation
• Automated Crash Reports
• Compact GUI for Lower an Upper Threshold
• Spots: Recenter
• Spots: Track Single Object
• Surfaces: with new Contour
• Surfaces: Unify, Split
• Filament Creation Wizard for Dendrites and Spines
• Statistics Color Coded Tracks
• Category Filters
• Time Plots
• 19 new Statistics Values for Spots, Surfaces, and Filament
• 72 Bugs fixed

Imaris 6.3.1 (2009 Jun 16)

• 29 Bugs fixed

Imaris 6.3.0 (2009 May 04)

• Smooth Zoom and Pan for Huge Images
• Improved Snapshot Dialog
• FileIO: Gatan, Compix, Prairie
• Image Processing 15% faster
• Filtering with two Thresholds
• Filament: Statistics Color Coding
• Filament: Real Branch Level Statistics
• Filament: Time Handling
• Collect Usage Data
• Faster Crop3D
• 44 Bugs fixed

Imaris 6.2.1 (2009 Feb 11)

• 28 Bugs fixed

Imaris 6.2.0 (2008 Nov 17)

• Imaris Batch
• Multithreaded Image Processing
• Statistics Time Plots
• Statistics Average Values
• Statistics Color Coding with Transparency
• Filament with Iterative ROI
• Filament Manual Start- and End-Points while Creation
• Filament improved Manual Editing (join)
• Material Palette on Color Tab
• Revived old Tiff Sorter
• Thumbnails for Multi-Image-Files (LIF, LEI)
• FileIO: Open Lab LIFF, Open Lab RAW
• 35 Bugs fixed

Imaris 6.1.5 (2008 Aug 28)

• 9 Bugs fixed

Imaris 6.1.4 (2008 Jul 31)

• 5 Bugs fixed

Imaris 6.1.3 (2008 Jun 27)

• 7 Bugs fixed

Imaris 6.1.2 (2008 Jun 06)

• 1 Bug fixed

Imaris 6.1.1 (2008 May 30)

• Surfaces Creation Wizard: minor changes
• 12 Bugs fixed

Imaris 6.1.0 (2008 Apr 29)

• New Surfaces Creation Wizard
• Interactive IsoSurface Preview
• Reduced Memory Overhead for 4D Images
• FileIO: Nikon ND2
• Statistics Tab with Overview, Detail, Selection
• Color coded Objects (Spots, Surfaces), and Tracks
• Filament with Spines
• Filament with many new Statistics Values
• MeasurementPoints with new Statistics Tab
• Coloc with Time Dependet Threshold
• New XTensions: Classify Spines, Filament Convex Hull, Connect Tracks
• Modified Programming Interface
• 64 Bugs fixed

Imaris 6.0.2 (2008 Apr 29)

• 2 Bugs fixed

Imaris 6.0.1 (2008 Feb 20)

• 41 Bugs fixed

Imaris 6.0.0 (2007 Nov 27)

• New Spots
• Spots Creation Wizard
• Regions of Interest
• Spots and Tracks Settings on one Tab
• New Spots Filter (replaces Tab Sorting)
• New Spots Statistics
• Semi-automatic Surface Segmentation
• Gamma Adjustment
• NEW File Readers: MCR, Andor LIF64, Compressed Axiovision
• 46 Bugs fixed

Imaris 5.7.2 (2007 Jul 16)

• 11 Bugs fixed

Imaris 5.7.1 (2007 Jun 06)

• 11 Bugs fixed

Imaris 5.7.0 (2007 Apr 27)

• Surface Scissors
• Volume Painter
• Volume Normal Shading
• Shadow Projection
• Navigation Window
• Batch File Converter
• Tabbed Tool Bars
• New File Formats: Perkin Elmer
• New: RLM License Manager
• 70 Bugs fixed

Imaris 5.5.3 (2007 Mar 16)

• 12 Bugs fixed

Imaris 5.5.2 (2007 Feb 15)

• 13 Bugs fixed

Imaris 5.5.1 (2007 Jan 12)

• 10 Bugs fixed

Imaris 5.5.0 (2006 Dec 21)

• Large Data (e.g. 50 GB image)
• Oblique Slicer
• Imroved Volume Rendering
• Enhanced Keyframe Animation
• Context sensitive Reference Manual
• New file formats: Imaris 5.5, Ome Tiff
• New installer for Win 32
• 26 Bugs fixed

Imaris 5.0.3 (2006 Aug 31)

• 1 Bug fixed

Imaris 5.0.2 (2006 Aug 22)

• Snapshot with custom size and offscreen
• Measurement Pointsss
• 36 Bugs fixed

Imaris 5.0.1 (2006 May 30)

• 4 Bugs fixed

Imaris 5.0.0 (2006 May 26)

• Imaris for Macintosh
• Shaped Spots
• Quick Start Tutorials
• Evaluation (former ImarisDemo)
• ImarisXT: Clipping Plane, Frame
• 48 Bugs fixed

Imaris 4.5.2 (2006 Mar 07)

• 5 Bugs fixed

Imaris 4.5.1 (2006 Feb 24)

• File Format: Leica LIF
• Thumbnails for Scene files
• 33 Bugs fixed

Imaris 4.5.0 (2006 Jan 20)

• Imaris 64 Bit
• Imaris InPress
• Surpass Swing
• Quick Time VR
• Status Bar: Zoom, FullScreen, Progressbar
• Configurable Coordinate Origin
• Explorer Thumbnails
• Filament: Automatic Autopath, Path Centering, Path Diameter
• ImarisXT: Image Processing
• 16 Bugs fixed

Imaris 4.2.0 (2005 May 27)

• Volume rendering with shadow projection
• Multiscale Spots
• Statistics Sorting Tab
• New Statistics Values: Center of Image Mass, Sphericity, Track Displacement, etc.
• Track Visualization by Displacement or Dragon Tail
• Tracking Algorithms for Spots and Surface Objects
• Performance improvement for Spots and Tracks
• Filament Autopath faster and better centered
• File Formats: JPEG Series, GIF Series
• 31 Bugs fixed

Imaris 4.1.3 (2004 Dec 22)

• 40 Bugs fixed

Imaris 4.1.2 (2004 Dec 03)

• ImarisXT (new module)
• 21 Bugs fixed

Imaris 4.1.1 (2004 Oct 16)

• Excel export with pivot tables
• Clipping Plane with new Handle
• 8 Bugs fixed

Imaris 4.1.0 (2004 Aug 27)

• New Display Adjustment Dialog
• Adjustable Scale Bar
• Coordinate Axis for all Views
• Autodepth Spots
• Key Frame Animation from Main Tool Bar
• Tracking with Linear Assignment
• Autodepth Measurement Points
• Autodepth Filament
• Autopath Filament
• Coloc P-Value
• File Formats: FluoView 1000
• 33 Bugs fixed

Imaris 4.0.6 (2004 Jun 07)

• Excel export to multiple Worksheets
• Tracking drift correction
• File Formats: IPLab
• 8 Bugs fixed

Imaris 4.0.5 (2004 Feb 13)

• Spot tracking (new)
• FilamentTracer (new)
• Image processing: Faster Gauss, Background Subtraction, Connective BAseline
• File Formats: Cell^R, OME XML, Imaris 4D (single file)
• 41 Bugs fixed

Imaris 4.0.3 (2003 Aug 22)

• New: Tracking
• ImarisSurpass is integrated into the Imaris Basic Package
• ImarisPersonal consisting of Slice, Section, Gallery, Easy3D, and Full3D
• New SurfaceObjects as result of splitted IsoSurface
• IsoSurface dynamically recalculated
• Movie export: AVI, MPEG, TIFF-Series
• File Formats: Cell^R, Biorad series
• Image Processing: Connective Baseline
• Statistics Tab for: IsoSurface, ContourSurface, SurfaceObject, Group
• 32 Bugs fixed