The 4.3.0 release is a major milestone that marks the hard work on many outstanding community members.
We are excited to announce that experimental DICOM image reading is available via the DCMTK library as a backend in addition to the GDCM library.
- By default, DCMTK ImageIO support is not enabled.
- To try DCMTK ImageIO support, turn the CMake option Module_ITKIODCMTK ON.
- For Unix platforms, the supporting DCMTK library will automatically be built as a CMake ExternalProject. On Windows, the DCMTK library must be built independently of the ITK build system. Then, specify the location to the external build after setting the CMake option ITK_USE_SYSTEM_DCMTK ON.
WrapITK has undergone extensive improvements and bug fixes.
- The status of WrapITK on various platforms can be found on the following Wiki page:
http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK/WrapITK_StatusA number of registration-related feature enhancements were added.
- The image registration methods have been updated to accommodate multiple image metrics within a single optimization scheme.
- This permits, for example, registration of a T1/T2 fixed image pair with a T1/T2 moving image pair using a single metric for both T1 and T2 gradients or even using two different metrics.
- New exponential transforms are available along with automated B-Spline transform scale estimation.
- A new physics-based non-rigid registration class is also available.
Updated third-party libraries include:
- NrrdIO from Teem 1.11
- libtiff 4.03
- FFTW 3.3.2
A large number of important bugs were crushed, including fixes to
- the ObjectFactoryBase,
- Patch-Based Denoising improvements,
- support for a system libtiff,
- mesh processing,
- and FFTW use.
itk::VectorImage is no longer a second-class citizen.
- Support for the itk::VectorImage was added to many algorithms,
- A single templated Adaptor class can now be applied without modification to both itk::VectorImage’s and itk::Image’s of itk::Vector’s, itk::RGBPixel’s, etc.
An extensive amount of code cruft was removed and coding style was made more consistent; ITK gets more stylish and classy with every release!
Performance optimizations were achieved by
- Removing GetInput/GetOutput calls within filter inner loops,
- Improving memory alignment,
- Memory access pattern optimizations,
- Parallelization through threading.
As previously scheduled, Visual Studio 2005 will no longer be supported after this release.
- Andreas Schuh
- Andriy Kot
- Arnaud Gelas
- Baohua Wu
- Bill Lorensen
- Brad King
- Bradley Lowekamp
- Brian Avants
- Brian Helba
- Cory Quammen
- David Doria
- Dirk Padfield
- Fotis Drakopoulos
- Gang Song
- Gordon Kindlmann
- Hans Johnson
- Ho Cheung
- Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
- Jeffrey Duda
- Kent Williams
- Kris Zygmunt
- Marius Staring
- Matthew McCormick
- Matthias Seise
- Michael Stauffer
- Nick Tustison
- Paul Novotny
- Richard Beare
- Willi Huber
- Xiaoxiao Liu