The suite also includes a set of extension programs to implement specific vertical applications that benefit from imaging techniques.

AAI focused on millimeter wave scanners for concealed weapon detection at airports, and eventually merged with Millimetrics to become Millivision.

During the Vision Show in Paris in October 2008, the new Aphelion Lab product was launched for users that are not specialists in image processing.

Nowadays, ADCIS is still working on the suite, and updated versions with new extensions and functionalities continually become available from the websites of both companies.

First, the imaging application is quickly developed from the Graphical User Interface, involving a set of functions that can be automatically recorded into a macro command.

[28] In the field of cosmetics, Aphelion has been used to analyze the wear and tear of nail polish, and to perform quality control on facial cream.

[33] In the field of metallurgy, Aphelion ActiveX[34] components have been used to do metallography in conjunction with electron microscopes (SEM) and microprobe (EDS) to quantify and analyze inclusions in steel.

[38] Based on ASTM standards, a set of specific tools has been implemented in the Aphelion software product to detect and then analyze grain boundaries.

The study of the distribution of metallic elements in composite materials and alloys, such as AlSiC is usually performed by granulometry involving image processing and analysis.

[44] The Aphelion software product has been used in the field of chemical engineering to study water mixes coming from two different sources in a continuous stirred-tank reactor.

For example, a specific software based on the Aphelion ActiveX components[34] is capable to measure inhibitor agent effects on dentin cells resorption.

Aphelion has also been used to study tumor vascularization in low resolution images using a slide scanner (much cheaper than a scan microscope).

The first product that was released was capable of detecting lesions in color fundus images of patients with age-related macular degeneration or to automatically determine a diabetic retinopathy grade.

[57][58] Other software products for ophthalmology pathologies have been developed such as ReVA for measurement of 3D volume of pigment epithelium detachment, ARIES to study confocal images of the cornea in the 2D and 3D spaces,[59] ISOS to quantify conjunctival hyperaemia at the ocular surface, and LWE to study dry eye syndrome looking at tears present on lid wiper epithelium.

[60] In the field of pharmacology, ADCIS used the Aphelion SDK libraries to develop a specific software product to find new molecules inhibiting mitosis in epifluorescence microscopy images.

They developed segmentation techniques applied on vertebra images including color space conversions (CIE L*a*b* and Hue, Saturation, and Intensity) to detect bones and cartilage edges.

[28] In agriculture and botany, the Aphelion Software Product helps to study macroscopic scale properties of leaves.

[64] The algorithm includes a segmentation of leaves versus the background, and then compute a set of measurements and perform a statistical analysis and then classification.

The ultimate goal of the application was to find a correlation between physiology parameters of fruit trees, and visual observation on leaves.

In the food industry, Aphelion can be used to measure the average grain size, or to compute the surface ratio of pulps in tomatoes.

[65] In the field of geology, scientists based their research work on Aphelion to perform a statistical analysis to determine the relationship between the size and shape of rock debris present in moraines, and the value of the maximal slope that will not cause rockfalls.

Images, coming from macro photographies of metamorphic rocks helped to study the distribution of garnet crystals in the Alps.

Research people spend time to find new algorithms, new functions (adaptive contrast, new color space definition, etc.

There is a very tight connection between image processing and classification (machine learning), which is part of the artificial intelligence field.

[71] Gervais Gauthier, from ADCIS, gave a talk where he showed the benefit of a vectorial representation of objects and chains in image processing.

[73] All products of the Aphelion Imaging Software Suite can be run on PC equipped with Windows (Vista, 7, 8, 8.1,[13] or 10) 32 or 64 bits.

une solution complète d'alignement des projections et de reconstruction tomographique 3D a été développée et intégrée à la plateforme Aphelion.[[...]

[An image analysis macro-command, developed in the Aphelion (ADCIS) toolbox software, allows to appreciate objectively the mean and maximum grades of tumor vascularisation.