Image-Pro^® Version Comparison

Feature Comparison	v11.1	v11	v10	v9.1-9.3	v9	v7
Image Management & Display
Image & MetaData Management
File Format Support for 65+ file types and Meta Data/Calibrations	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Optical Lens & Dye Libraries – Save characteristics to meta data	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	－
Set Import / Multi-Dimensional Builder	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	－
Full Screen ‘File’ menu view	✔	✔	✔	－	－	－
Channel Management – Save unique characteristics per channel	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Views & Overlays
Annotation Tools (Text, Arrows, Shapes, etc.)	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Timelapse Movie & Surface Views	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Multi-Dimensional Views (Slide Scan, Mosaic, Compare, Bitmap, Slicer, 3D Voxel)	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	－
ROI (Region of Interest) drawing & Management	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	－
Well Plate Viewer	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Color-Coded Well Plate Heat Maps	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Processing & Adjustments
Image Adjustments
Pseudo-Color by gray level & Tint by Probe/Dye list or RGB/White	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
LUT’s, BCG, B&W Levels, & Histogram stretching	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Image Filters – 2D & 3D Morphological, Enhancement, Edge, and Large Spectral Filters	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Image correction – Background subtraction and correction	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Resize, Rotate, Resize canvas	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	－
High Dynamic Range (HDR) image creation – Post process	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	－
Align, EDF, Tile & Stitch
Auto Align images – For Z stacks or time sequences	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Extended depth of field (EDF)	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Auto Tile images	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Auto Shading Correction across individual tiles & entire mosaic	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	－
Usability
User Layout Customization
Floating, Docked, or Full screen window modes	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Views & Layouts Saved per User	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	－
AutoRecover unsaved or modified images	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	－
Dark Mode Setting – For usage in dark environments	✔	✔	✔	－	－	－
Customizable Auto Shutdown Timer with AutoSave	✔	✔	✔	－	－	－
Pinned Panel dock – For organizing multiple open panels	✔	✔	✔	－	－	－
Search & Help
Helpful Feature Documentation	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Universal Search across Recently Used items & Help topics	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Dockable & Dynamic Help panel for easy access to Documentation	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Licensing
License “Linked” to USB License dongles	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Flexible License Linking/Unlinking to Computer or License Server in addition to USB dongles	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Online License “Bundle” management – Control module configuration per base product	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Data Analytics & Reporting
Data Collection & Display
Collect 40+ measurements from one or multiple images using any data source available	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Export from Data Collector to Reports, Microsoft Excel, CSV, or text file	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Create custom measurements to collect using the equation editor	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	－
Flexible Data tables, Statistics, and Graphs – Sort, Filter, Condense, or Group by Class	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	－
Display Data using Heat Maps	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Display annotated images in Data Table along with statistical data	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Reporting
Report creation with layout, text formatting, images, data tables, and graphs	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	－
Save Reports as PDF, Word, HTML, or Rich Text	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	－
Auditing & Authentication
Audit Trail – For tracking user actions across the entire application or per image	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Image and file signatures – For creating unique “fingerprints” to check authenticity	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Track usage across multiple sessions over time	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	－
Export data to Excel or File	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	－
Scripting & Automation
Intelligent macro recording & editor with command recognition	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Graphical Macro programming tools with App builder	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Batch process (with folder monitoring)	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	－
2D Measurements
Direct, Best Fit, & Relative
Manual tag, Measure Point-to-point, pitch, polygon, rectangle, circle, polyline, angle	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Best Fit measurements – For finding approximate measurements by ‘fitting’ circles, arcs, & lines to objects	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Measure Relative Distances – For measuring between object centers, minimum, maximum	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Auto Trace Edges – For automatically drawing lines and polygons along edges	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	✔
Auto Snap to Edge – For snapping to (straight edge, any edge, line length, line edges, along edge, circle)	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	－
Measure on a Live Preview Image (Requires 2D Capture Module)	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	－
Polygon Adjustment Options – Nudge, Grow/Shrink, Close/Merge	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	－
Magic Wand & Auto-Find Lines, Circles, Irreguar Objects	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	－
Line Profile (Caliper) & Edge Detection
Draw Line Profiles as lines or polygons manually or with AutoTrace	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Detect intensity “edges” manually or automatically under the line – Peaks, Valleys, Rising, Falling	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Display measurements as a graph, measurements table, or Statistics Table	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Define unique intensity patterns to allow for autodetection under line	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	－
Group “edges” into classes – Name and color code	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	－
Color
CIE Lab* Color Measurement – For measuring colors under cursor & extracting channels as mono images	✔	✔	✔	－	－	✔
sRGB and Color Profiling Methods for defining color measurements	✔	✔	✔	－	－	－
Digital Color Correction – Adjust one image by a reference (image or color transform from points)	✔	✔	✔	－	－	－
Classification
Single Variable classification – Auto-classify objects evenly into bins based upon a single measurement	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Assign unique colors to objects by class	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Adjust measurement overlay appearances by class	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
2D Automated Analysis
AI Deep Learning Segmentation
Deep Learning Model Segmentation “Prediction”	✔	－	－	－	－	－
Model Training from untrained state	✔	－	－	－	－	－
Model Duplication & Refinement from existing trained model	✔	－	－	－	－	－
Model Import from community	✔	－	－	－	－	－
Support for various model architectures (CellPose, StarDist, UNET)	✔	－	－	－	－	－
Integration of AI Deep Learning Segmentation into Analysis Protocols	✔	－	－	－	－	－
Library of Pre-Trained Models: Life Science Models	✔	－	－	－	－	－
Library of Pre-Trained Models: Materials Models	✔	－	－	－	－	－
Free-Form Segmentation
Count / Size Manual Object Classification	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Auto Count Bright/Dark Objects	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	✔
Count / Size Sort – Displays objects in a grid sorted by a measurement	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	✔
Manual and automatic 2D object tracking tools	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	✔
Smart Segmentation: Machine learning-based	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	－
Learning Classification: Training-based object classification	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	－
Voronoi Maps: Distribution & nearest neighbors analysis	✔	✔	✔	－	－	－
Protocol-based Segmentation
Run on single file multi-positional (including multi-well) datasets or collections of individual images	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Bi-direction feedback between data tables & annotated images & charts	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Library of Protocol reports for both large datasets & single images	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Analysis Protocols – Essentials Collection (Objects within Objects, Object Count, % Area)	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Analysis Protocols – Cell Biology Collection (Apoptosis, Autophagy, Cell Count, Cell Morphology & more)	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Analysis Protocols – Cell Biology Advanced Collection (Angiogenesis, Colocalization, Neurite Outgrowth, & more)	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Analysis Protocols – Materials Collection (Particles, Pores, Particle Phase, Fiber Thickness, & more)	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
2D Image Capture
Camera Device Control
Digital Camera Control (Access on-device resolution, binning, framerate, etc.)	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Acquisition
Single frame & Time-lapse “Movie” acquisition	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Live EDF & Tiling	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
High-speed streaming to disk	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	－
Live Analysis (grids, compare, line measurements, counting)	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	－
Live Image Compare & HDR	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	－
Multi-Channel Capture
Light Source Device Control	✔	✔	－	－	－	✔
Acquisition of mixed multi-channel & transmitted light datasets	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Automated capture of multichannel image-set (w/ a supported multi-channel light source)	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Guided acquisition of multi-channel image-sets from a manual microscope	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Real-Time Deconvolution
2D Real-Time Deconvolution integrated with Capture	✔	✔	－	－	－	✔
Wiener Filter-based algorithm	✔	✔	－	－	－	✔
2D Iterative-based algorithm	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
3D Visualization & Analysis
3D Visualization
3D viewer with advanced control & volume rendering (Min & Max Projections)	✔	✔	－	✔	✔	✔
Clipping plane viewing	✔	✔	－	✔	✔	✔
Slicer viewing	✔	✔	－	✔	✔	✔
Simple Key Frame Animation movie making	✔	✔	✔	－	－	－
3D Visualization of Big Data Sets
Big Data Visualization using GPU Processing – Opens Terabyte sized images	✔	✔	✔	－	－	－
Convert Large Image Sets Into Pyramidal Tiff for Big Data Visualization	✔	－	－	－	－	－
3D Analysis
Iso-Surface based object analysis	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	✔
Automated 3D volume measurements	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	✔
3D object based manual measurements on isosurfaces	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	✔
Guided Segmentation for complex samples	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	✔
3D Co-localization of probes	✔	✔	✔	✔	－	－
Volume “Pseudo-surface” based object analysis	✔	✔	✔	－	－	－
AutoQuant Deconvolution (Post-Acquisition)
Deblurring (No/Nearest Neighbor, Wiener Filter)	－	－	－	－	－	✔
2D Fixed & Adaptive Deconvolution Algorithms	✔	✔	－	－	－	✔
Support of both Theoretical & Measured PSFs	✔	✔	－	－	－	✔
GPU Acceleration	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
PSF generation for WF, CF, 2 Photon, Spinning Disk, & STED modalities	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Spherical Abberation Correction	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Batch Deconvolution	✔	－	－	－	－	－
License Server (for Network-based Licensing)
License Server for Network distribution of floating software licenses access	✔	✔	✔	－	－	✔
Dynamic license access anywhere Image-Pro is installed on an internal network	✔	✔	✔	－	－	✔
No dongle needed	✔	✔	✔	－	－	－
Bundles can be left as floating licenses or can be fixed to a single workstation	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
Bundle assignment to License Server can be adjusted anytime as needed	✔	✔	－	－	－	－
User time out returns license back to License Server	✔	✔	－	－	－	－