Realease Notes (CTF)

Release notes of CT-FIRE

CT-FIRE V2.0 Beta (November 2016 first test version, December 2017 formal version):

1. Add parallel computing for the fiber extraction of multiple images or image stack(s).
2. Add the ROI manager for defining the region of interest in an image.
3. Add ROI analysis for post-processing CT-FIRE results of individual image.
4. Add ROI analysis for running CT-FIRE on the defined ROIs of individual image.
5. Add ROI analysis and ROI post-processing for multiple images.
6. Add a colormap for visualizing the fiber properties in the advanced output module.
7. Optimize the graphical user interface to make it more intuitive.
8. Add the multiple stacks analysis in the advanced output module.

CT-FIRE V1.3 Beta2 (November 2014):

Primary changes were the addition of the advanced output control module including the following functions:

1. Manually look up the fiber properties and remove the over-segmented fibers.
2. Automatically select fibers by use of one threshold condition or combined conditions including the absolute or relative limits of fiber width, length, angle and straightness.
3. Output a variety of statistic measures of the selected fibers obtained from (2) as well as the option to output raw data and overlaid images of them.
4. Analyze the selected fibers in a single image/stack or in multiple images and visualize the associated statistics. Other changes included:
5. Batch-mode fiber extraction for stacks.
6. Improved width calculation and the option to output the maximum width of each fiber.
7. Option to estimate the number of bins for the histogram based on the number of fibers.
8. Control the output image resolution and improve .MAT file loading function. Fixed bug to load and update the existing fiber extraction parameters; and save the fiber properties of selected fibers into different sheets of one excel file.

Version 1.2.1 beta (December, 2013):

1. Add batch mode fiber extraction for both multiple image files and .mat files, image stack fiber extraction, post-processing for both single image output, single fiber extraction results ".mat" file and multiple fiber extraction results ".mat" files.
2. Add the features of outputting non-overlaid extracted fiber image, fiber straightness, and fiber width besides fiber length and fiber angle.
3. In addition, add the button to load parameters in .csv files as well as to update and save the updated parameters for ctFIRE in .csv format.

Version 1.0 (December, 2012)

Fiber extraction for a single image