Comparison of Software Products

Feature comparison

i2k Retina

Standard

i2k Retina

Standard Plus

i2k Retina

Professional

i2k Retina

Professional Plus

Automatic image registration

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Automatic and configurable output cropping

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Automatic mask detection

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Automatic blending and stitched of input images into a montage / mosaic output

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Quadratic or affine alignment method

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Adjust blending options: fully-blended, partial or no blending

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

User-selectable processing effort

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

User-selectable target image available to orient alignment (default is automatic center selection)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Output aligned images to an automatically calculated coordinate space of a target image

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Automatic alignment of images from multiple modalities (color fundus, OCTA, FA, etc)

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Sequential display of aligned images

No

In i2k Viewer

In i2k Viewer

In i2k Viewer

Overlapping display and comparison of aligned images (fusion & multi-view modes)

No

In i2k Viewer

In i2k Viewer

In i2k Viewer

Output gif & .mov files from aligned images to illustrate sequential display of aligned images

No

In i2k Viewer

In i2k Viewer

In i2k Viewer

Locate a point on one image and instantly see the same point on any other image (linked view in synchronization mode)

No

No

In i2k Viewer

In i2k Viewer

Save and load transformations

No

No

Yes

Yes

Mosaic sequences (for multi-session images)

No

No

Yes

Yes

Combine multiple acquisitions

No

No

Yes

Yes

Adaptive optics images

No

No

Upgrade option

Upgrade option

Support for non-retinal images types

No

No

Yes

Yes

Surrogate image substitution

No

No

Yes

Yes

Define a Region of Interest on any input image

No

No

Yes

Yes

Special image acquisition paths (used with Adaptive Optics images)

No

No

Yes

Yes

Command line utility program for batch image processing

No

No

No

Yes

User-selected correspondence points

No

No

Yes

Yes

Input / output of in-memory images

No

No

No

Developer kit API only

Number of images per processing

up to 75

up to 75

up to 1000

More than 1000

Support for JPEG, BMAP, TIFF and PNG images

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

DICOM support

No

No

No

No

Mac OSX 10.7 or higher

Windows 10 and 11

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Move license between computers with deactivation

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

License duration

Five years

Five years

Eight years

User support and software updates

Two years

Two years

Eight years

Price

$995

$1395

$1990

Extended support option: additional 3 years

$149

$149

Not needed

Comparison of releases

i2k Retina

Release

2.x

i2k Retina

Release

3.9 or later

Core features such as automatic image registration; automatic mask detection; automatic illumination correction; quadratic alignment method; automatic target image selection

Included

No change

User-selectable target image

Included

Improved desktop application interface

Surrogate image substitution

Included

Improved in desktop application and API

Define a Region of Interest on any image

Included

Improved desktop application interface

Detect which images were included in different image groupings

Not supported in desktop application

Improved API support and available from desktop application

Adaptive optics images

Not supported

Upgrade option

User-selected correspondence points

Not available

Option

Number of bits supported per color

8

8,10,12,16

Incremental montage

Not available

Only available as an option for developers. No end-user application available.

Use on iOS devices

Not available

Only available as an option for developers. No end-user application available.

Move license between computers with deactivation command

Included

Improved desktop application interface

License duration

Perpetual and defined subscriptions were available.

Desktop application only available with a defined subscription period. Developers continue to have multiple options available.

User support and software updates

No updates available since version 2.5. Limited support available to end-users.

Current desktop application is version 3.9 with one to eight years of support available depending on configuration purchased.

Are activation codes interchangeable between different versions?

No

No

Support and updates included at time of purchase for perpetual activation codes

3 years for Std configuration

5 years for Pro configuration

3 years for Std configuration

5 years for Pro configuration

Price for Support after the initial support period has ended

Depends on duration of time since the support period ended

15% for one year

25%  for five years

Upgrade price to next major version

Partial credit if version 2.x purchased after 2014

Not needed if Support is current