What's new?

This page lists the more important changes and new features in recent versions of Digimizer^®. The most recent additions and changes are listed at the top.

Version 3.6.1

• New New Image from Clipboard command.

Version 3.6

• New Canny Edge Detector and Range Filter.

Version 3.5

• New default zoom option.
• New measurement for areas: roundness.

Version 3.3

• Import Binary Layer from Image File

Version 3.2

• Reset Calibration
• Adjust Colors
• Selective Color Brightness
• Export coordinates of measurement objects
• Set coordinates origin

Version 3.1

• Added width and height for the Rectangle measurement tool
• Added length and width for the Area measurement tool

Version 3.06

• Export Measurements list as a MedCalc file.

Version 3.05

• Improved Thumbnail view of Digimizer Image files (*.dgz) in Windows Explorer
• Improved default calibration settings - see Options
• Several bug fixes

Version 3

• Redesigned layout.
• Cropping
• Statistics window

Version 2.2

• Support for DICOM files

Version 2.1

• Added measurement of average intensity.
• Toolbars have been reorganized into one single toolbar
• Added measurements list feature
• New in View menu:
  • Measurements List
• Implementation of Online Help (this help file)
• New in View menu:
  • Grid
• New Binary menu:
  • Binarization
  • Overlay Binary Image
  • Hide Binary Layer
  • Morphological Dilate
  • Morphological Erode
  • Morphological Close
  • Morphological Open
  • Noise Reduction
  • Analyze Objects
• New in Tools menu:
  • Scripts
• "Lasso" function: when using the path or area tools, the program will "sample" points when you press the Ctrl key whilst moving the mouse.
• Rectangular selection tool: in Select mode, you can select measuring objects by dragging the mouse over the objects.
• Fit line: when 2 or more Marker, Perpendicular Line or Circle objects are selected, a "Fit Line" is available in the context menu (which appears after right-clicking the mosue in the image). The line is fitted using a custom (perpendicular) regression method. The angle is reported with 95% CI. For Circle objects the center is used, and for Perpendicular Line objects the middle point of the perpendicular line is used in the regression procedure.
• New in File menu:
  • Save: save the image in Digimizer native format (file extension .dgz)
  • Save as: save the image in Digimizer native format, or in JPG, GIF, PNG or TIFF format.
  • Select Source: select scanner (if available)
  • Acquire Image: acquire image from scanner (if available)
  • Print: Print image
• New in Edit menu:
  • Undo: multi-level Undo
• New in Format menu:
  • Resize: resize image
• New in Image menu:
  • Background Correction: corrects image defects caused by uneven illumination (e.g. in microscopy)
  • Despeckle: Removes noise from images without blurring edges
  • Convert to Grayscale: Converts the image to a grayscale image
  • Invert: Creates a negative of the image
  • Negative: Inverts selected colors
  • Sharpen: Aplies a sharpen filter to the image
  • Filters: several filters (experimental - some of these may be removed in future versions of Digimizer)