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We ended up going with Arivis. It's the only software that didn't crash on
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> We ended up going with Imaris, but I strongly recommend getting a free demo
> (they all should make one available) for your particular institute's area
> of interest or user model. There is usually a tradeoff between amount of
> options in terms of workflows and user interface accessibility/learning
> curve, so some of the choice may come down to whether the software is being
> dropped in the user's lap, or the core facility is running the analysis or
> guiding them through it. I have only demoed Arivis, and while the
> interactive 3D manipulation of volumes was neat, it was limited to a 512^3
> pixel volume at the time, which wasn't going to cut it as a useful tool.
> The one thing I *really *liked about Arivis that Imaris didn't have was the
> capacity to produce the 360 degree videos (search it on YouTube). It's the
> closest you can get right now to easily sharing a 3D volume, and can make
> for a great social media tool or intro to a lab's website. Imaris also
> doesn't seem to have much in the way of machine learning or deep learning
> algorithms currently built in (paint objects, find all objects that look
> like the painted objects), though you could build your own with MATLAB.
>
> In the end, we went with Imaris due to the workflow and ease of use for the
> core facility customers. It could be used for fairly complex analyses
> with *relatively
> *little training and has a reasonably clean user interface. Most commercial
> software can now handle very large images these days, but there is a
> difference between "handles" and "can populate with objects or do image
> analysis on," which was something we ran into with Amira. It could load the
> images, but you couldn't actually analyze the full volume (at the time).
>
> I haven't tried Aivia.
>
> The computer you want to run these programs on can also have a significant
> impact on whether they are actually useful to you, so plan on either having
> or also purchasing a nice computer (and with a compatible video card, check
> with the vendor as far as which cards work best).
>
> Most of these tools are under development, so who knows what will be the
> best next year!
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> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 7:32 AM Andreas Bruckbauer <
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> > Dear all, I am interested to hear your opinions regarding image
> analysis
> > software for processing of larger datasets 3D and 4D datasets. How
> > do Imaris, Arivis and Aivia (maybe others?) compare? I am aware of Icy
> and
> > Fiji, but often find that we are hitting the limits when working with
> large
> > files e.g. 20 GB - 50 GB, but not the TB range yet. On the other hand we
> > often have to go back to Fiji to do some more complex analysis. This
> would
> > be for a light microscopy facility setting. Best wishes Andreas
> >
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