Bisque Release Notes - Version 0.5.4

Bisque Release Notes - Version 0.5.4

Bisque feature enhancements

Bisque version 0.5.4 was released 12/6/2013.

Image service updates

• Increased processing speed with parallelized processing of all operations
• Decreased response time by optimizing file system and cache access
• Improved speed of information and metadata retrieval operation
• Improved access to very large TIFF files (tens of gigabytes and hundreds of thousands of TIFF directories)
• New operations: pixel counter, rearrange dimensions, thresholding, gamma, 3D interpolation, superpixels segmentation, flip mirror and rotation guessing based on EXIF, image transforms (space: fourier, wavelet, chebyshev, etc. color: HSV, etc,), filters (edges, colors)
• Testing suite covering most operations

New feature service

• Added new service to compute image and graphical object feature descriptors supporting more than 100 descriptors

User interface

• Slightly improved image annotation allowing complex annotations
• Improved map widget reading data from both user annotations and EXIF
• Improved main toolbar with simply templated resource creation

Modules

• Nuclear Detector is 100X faster, fully CPU parallelized and uses GPU
  if available
• Nuclear Detector now supports any 4D image sizes (processed 26GB image
  in 2h)
• New Nuclear Filtering module for brightfield 3D images

Scalable Deployment

• Multi-machine deployments for scalability
• Logging server for multiple machines
• New login architecture
• admin improvements

Bug fixes

• Many bug fixes were addressed in this release.