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  • v5.1.2

    November 26, 2020
  • v5.1.1

    August 10, 2020
  • v5.1.0

    April 25, 2020
  • v5.1.rc03

    March 25, 2020
  • v5.1.rc02

    February 20, 2020
  • v5.1.rc01

    December 08, 2019
  • v5.1.b01

    September 03, 2019
  • v5.0.1 Changes

    July 25, 2019

    πŸš€ ITK 5.0.1 Release Notes

    🍱 We are happy to announce the Insight Toolkit (ITK) 5.0.1! πŸŽ‰ ITK is an open-source, cross-platform toolkit for N-dimensional scientific image processing, segmentation, and registration.

    πŸ“¦ Python Packages

    πŸ“¦ ITK Python packages can be installed by running:

    pip install itk
    

    πŸ“¦ or to install the conda package, run:

    conda install -c conda-forge itk
    

    Software Guide

    Library Sources

    βœ… Testing Data

    βœ… Unpack optional testing data in the same directory where the Library Source is unpacked.

    Checksums

    πŸš€ ITK 5.0.1 is the first patch release that addresses issues identified in the major 5.0.0 release. For more details on ITK 5, see the ITK 5.0.0 Release Notes.

    πŸš€ This release improves support for ITK's use in Dask, the scientific Python distributed computing library, addresses a number of build and runtime corner cases, and makes updates to the Software Guide for ITK 5. For more details, see the Changelog below. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the release.

    What's Next

    ⚑️ Join us in the creation of advanced, open source scientific image analysis tools. The ITK Examples are currently undergoing a major integration and update effort lead by community member Hans Johnson -- your participation is welcome. Take part in the community discussion at discourse.itk.org. Contribute with pull requests, code reviews, and issue discussions in our GitHub Organization.

    πŸš€ We have a soft commitment to backwards compatibility to address any potential API or architectural issues until the next feature release. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements on ITK's integration with modern web technologies and improved support for Remote Module development on GitHub.

    Enjoy ITK!

    πŸ”„ Changes from 5.0.0 to 5.0.1

    Bradley Lowekamp (8):
          BUG: Fix ProcessObject::RemoveOutput for null objects.
          BUG: Use ProcessObject GetInput to obtain base pointer
          ENH: Add testing for CastImageFilter for more type conversions
          BUG: Restore support for Cast between explicitly cast-ed pixel type
          BUG: Install FFTW headers in same location as ITK
          COMP: Fix not marked 'override' for ImageSink destructor
          BUG: Use enable_if with SFINAE to dispatch
          BUG: Specify specific CircleCI docker image with platform
    
    Dženan Zukić (5):
          BUG: resample filter no longer triggers unnecessary exception
          COMP: forgotten class for ITKV4_COMPATIBILITY in 2aae174
          COMP: fix warning about missing override in CastImageFilter
          STYLE: Add ITK prefix to testing macros in release branch
          ENH: documenting supported compilers
    
    Francois Budin (2):
          BUG: ImageBase regions and ImageRegion properties are returned as reference
          DOC: Add ITK 5.0 release notes
    
    GenevieveBuckley (1):
          BUG: All exceptions must be derived from python's BaseException class
    
    Matthew McCormick (16):
          ENH: New content links for ITK 5.0.0
          STYLE: DeformableRegistration2 line length warnings
          COMP: SpatialObjectsHierarchy Software Guide newline
          BUG: Add test/CMakeLists.txt stub to NumPy bridge
          COMP: Provide NumericTraits<complex<T>>::ZeroValue() definition
          BUG: Do not require PyBUF_WRITABLE in GetArrayViewFromImage
          DOC: Update supported Python versions warning
          BUG: Add PEP 366 __package__ support to ITKLazyModule
          BUG: Release the Python Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) during execution
          STYLE: Apply ITK Style Guidelines to itkPyCommand.cxx
          BUG: itk::PyCommand ensures the GIL state
          BUG: Support pickling LazyITKModule with cloudpickle
          BUG: Add Pipeline name to Azure configuration
          DOC: Update Azure Pipelines badge URL's
          BUG: Add wrapping for TransformMeshFilter
          ENH: Bump itkVersion.cmake for 5.0.1
    
    Pablo Hernandez-Cerdan (1):
          BUG: Fix COMPILE_DEFINITIONS of castxml
    
    Stephen Aylward (4):
          ENH: Updated Spatial Object tex to match ITKv5
          BUG: Fixed spelling mistakes and use of plural member functions
          BUG: Fix grammar and naming mistakes in SpatialObject documentation
          DOC: Fixed expected output of examples and documentation
    
    yjcchen0913 (1):
          BUG: Ensure strict weak ordering in HessianToObjectnessMeasure's sort
    
  • v5.0.0 Changes

    May 29, 2019

    πŸš€ ITK 5.0.0 Release Notes

    🍱 We are happy to announce the Insight Toolkit (ITK) 5.0.0! πŸŽ‰ ITK is an open-source, cross-platform toolkit for N-dimensional scientific image processing, segmentation, and registration.

    πŸš€ ITK 5.0.0 is a major release that features an incredible number of improvements: This includes major enhancement in the development process, major code refactoring, addition of important features, improvement of ITK Python wrapping, and more.

    πŸ“¦ Python Packages

    πŸ“¦ ITK Python packages can be installed by running:

    pip install itk
    

    πŸ“¦ or to install the conda package, run:

    conda install -c conda-forge itk
    

    Software Guide

    Library Sources

    βœ… Testing Data

    βœ… Unpack optional testing data in the same directory where the Library Source is unpacked.

    Checksums

    Montage Poster
    🐎 Montaging for microscopy imaging files with the new ITKMontage remote module: High-Performance, Open-Source Microscopy Image Montaging. Matthew McCormick , DΕΎenan ZukiΔ‡ , FranΓ§ois Budin , Michael Jackson, Dennis Dimiduk , David Rowenhorst , Sean Donegan, and Michael Groeber. WBIR 2018.

    ITK on GitHub

    🍎 An important step has been taken to faciliate participation of the community in the development of ITK: The official repository was moved to GitHub! This move includes ITK's main repository, as well as many other ITK projects such as the ITKExamples, and many ITK remote modules. It is now very easy for anyone to participate in the development of the library. This has already been a success with many new authors getting involved and submitting patches through the GitHub pull-request mechanism. This change also includes moving the issue tracker to the GitHub issue tracker where any problem encountered with ITK should be reported. ITK's GitHub migration was explained in more detail in ITK 5.0 Beta 3: GitHub. Finally, moving ITK to GitHub made it straightforward to use Microsoft Azure Pipeline Continuous Integration platform: Each pull-request is tested on all 3 major platforms (Windows, Linux, MacOS) and Python builds can be requested to ensure that a patch can be integrated.

    C++11

    Major C++ code refactoring brought dramatic improvements to ITK's API and performance (see ITK 5.0 Alpha 1: Modern C++ for more details). ITK now uses the C++11 standard allowing the developers full access to its new powerful features such as range-based loops, constexpr, lambda expressions, and uniform initialization syntax. Using C++ 11 also removes the necessity of many ITK macros (e.g. ITK_NULLPTR, ITK_DELETED_FUNCTION) which have equivalents in the new standard. This also leads to changes in style to match the C++ 11 best practices. This includes replacing typedef calls with the using keyword to improve source code readability. ITK's C++ code is easier to read, understand, and maintain!

    Thread Pool

    πŸš€ This new release of ITK also integrates big performance improvements thanks to the refactoring of the multithreading infrastructure with a thread pool available by default, and the possible usage of the Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) threading backend (see ITK 5.0 Alpha 2: Performance for benchmarks).

    Spatial Objects

    βž• Additionally, a major upgrade of the ITK Spatial Object framework, which provides a representation of objects and the mechanism to specify their spatial relationship relative to other objects in a scene, was integrated in this new version of ITK. The new code improves consistency in the programming interface and simplifies implementation and usage (more details in ITK 5.0 Release Candidate 2: Spatial Object’s.

    πŸ†• New Features

    πŸš€ Other new features in this ITK release include new algorithms, better mesh support (see ITK 5.0 Release Candidate 1: Meshes), new global variable model using one singleton, and better streaming capabilities.

    Third Party Libraries

    ⚑️ Eigen, a C++ library for linear algebra, was integrated in ITK and gradual transition from VXL to Eigen for Linear algebra is planned. Many third party libraries were updated: VNL, DCMTK, GDCM, HDF5, KWSys, MetaIO, Zlib, GIFTI, nifti, pygccxml.

    Remote Modules

    πŸš€ Remote modules, which allow easy integration of new image processing algorithm in ITK, were updated and new Python packages compatible with this new release of ITK were created. Four new remote modules were also added to ITK: PhaseSymmetry, IOOpenSlide, Montage, and BSplineGradient (description of the modules in ITK 5.0 Beta 3: GitHub).

    Python

    πŸš€ Traditionally, ITK in Python had to be used through an object-oriented interface. In this new release, we have added a functional interface which is more Pythonic and should be more familiar to Python programmers. Examples on how to use this new procedural interface are available in ITK 5.0 Beta 1: Pythonic Interface.

    Congratulations

    πŸš€ Congratulations and thank you to everyone who contributed to this release. Of the 49 authors, we would like to specially recognize the new contributors, Isaiah Norton, maekclena, Rashad Kanavath, Bai Shi, Hui Xie, Martino Pilia, Ally Warner, pierre33, Chao Wu, Gregory C. Sharp, Bryce A Besler, Kwame Kutten, Mihail Isakov, Jerome Schmid, Roman Grothausmann, Alexis Girault, Gabriel A. Devenyi, Marian Klymov, Thomas Janvier, and Forrest Li.

    Migration to ITKv5

    πŸ“š The ITK 5 Migration Guide is available to help transition a code base from ITK 4 to ITK 5. Please discuss your experiences on Discourse.

    What's Next

    Join us in the creation of advanced, open source scientific image analysis tools. Get started with the ITK examples. Take part in the community discussion at discourse.itk.org. Contribute with pull requests, code reviews, and issue discussions in our GitHub Organization.

    πŸš€ We have a soft commitment to backwards compatibility to address any potential API or architectual issues until the next feature release. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements on ITK's integration with modern web technologies and improved support for Remote Module development on GitHub.

    Enjoy ITK!

    πŸ”„ Changes from 5.0 RC 2 to 5.0.0

    Alexis Girault @agirault (4):
          ENH: Compare images converted from and to VTK in ITKVtkGlue tests
          ENH: Pass directions in VTKImage import/export classes
          ENH: Throw exception when necessary while importing a vtk image
          BUG: Ignore calls to the direction APIs in VTK if lower than 8.90
    
    Bradley Lowekamp @blowekamp (46):
          COMP: Address const char[] conversation warning
          BUG: Fix leaking PNGIO resources during exception
          BUG: Remove redundent fclose on PNG file pointer
          ENH: Add Valgrind suppression file for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
          BUG: Update FEM test for new spatial objects
          COMP: Correct continuous index type
          BUG: Address valgrid defects related to the PointSpatialObject
          BUG: Fix ownership of environment variable value
          BUG: Fix leak in SpatialObject InternalClone method
          ENH: Update a couple example to use the resample instead of warp
          BUG: Set all component of 3D points
          BUG: Add named output support to StreamingImageFilter
          ENH: Deprecate VectorResampleImageFilter
          ENH: Consolidating setting compression level interface to ImageIOBase
          ENH: Implement InternalSetCompressor method in ImageIOs
          DOC: Add compression documentation to ImageIOs
          ENH: Use the empty string "" for the default compressor
          ENH: Add compression level support to NRRD IO
          ENH: Improve TIFF ImageIO compression testing
          ENH: Add base class for generic streaming processes
          ENH: Add ImageSink base filter class
          ENH: Use streaming base class for LabelStatisticsImageFilter
          ENH: Use named input in LabelStatisticsImageFilter
          ENH: Add streaming support to StatisticsImageFilter
          ENH: Add testing for streaming with StatisticsImageFilter
          ENH: Remove output image, use standard decorator macros
          ENH: Refactor min/max filter to use ImageSink
          ENH: Add ImageSink::VerifyInputInformation
          ENH: Add KWStyle override for ImageStatistics module
          ENH: Use streaming sink base class for image to histogram filters
          ENH: Deprecate ImageTransformer class
          BUG: Update NormalizeImageFilter with double graft mini-pipeline
          DOC: statistics filter changes for ITKv5
          ENH: Add Python wrapping for streaming base classes
          ENH: Add streaming testing of label statistics filter
          COMP: Move deprecated VectorCastImageFilter wrapping to deprecated
          BUG: Fix path for Brain Web data
          BUG: Correct StreamingProcessObject's progress computation
          STYLE: prefer variable-less catch re-throw
          BUG: Set current request number back to -1 after stream execution
          ENH: Expose streaming methods in MinimumMaximumImageFilter
          ENH: Add streaming testing for min max filter
          ENH: replace RGB adaptor with directly using CastImageFilter
          ENH: Add cast support for per component conversion
          ENH: Mark the Cast functor to be remove with legacy code
          DOC: Update documentation for streaming statistics filters.
    
    Dženan Zukić @dzenanz (25):
          ENH: make ITK_MAX_THREADS configurable
          BUG: fix threading test bugs when ITK_DEFAULT_MAX_THREADS is over 256
          COMP: compile GPU classes with legacies disabled
          COMP: removing extraneous DLL specification from private member
          COMP: follow-up on recent removal of METAIO_STL macro
          COMP: add missing dependent module for ITKv3 examples
          COMP: ResampleImageFilter does not have SetDisplacementField method
          ENH: reduce default compression level for much faster compression
          BUG: compression was accidentally disabled in NrrdImageIO
          COMP: compile in ITK
          STYLE: move ivar default values to header file
          ENH: expose setting compression level in ImageFileWriter
          ENH: expose compression level in MetaImageIO
          BUG: the clang version check was overly strict on Apple platforms
          COMP: fix build failures introduced by c76b193 (#886)
          ENH: cleaning up tests which are almost exact duplicates from MetaIO
          ENH: updating remote modules
          COMP: fix warning: 'return' will never be executed
          COMP: fix export specification of Barrier class
          COMP: follow up to 814419a (bounding box m_CornersContainer removal)
          ENH: LevelSetsv4Visualization has moved to remote module ITKVtkGlue
          ENH: run large image IO tests serially
          ENH: enabling ResampleImage streaming test and updating baselines
          ENH: enabling ResampleImage streaming test and updating baselines
          ENH: exclude Eigen3 from the list of default modules
    
    Francois Budin @fbudin69500 (19):
          ENH: Add `fallback_only` parameter to `imread()` Python function
          ENH: Add suffix to Azure build running gcov to differentiate them
          STYLE: Add display name to checkout step in AzurePipelineBatch.yml
          ENH: Add JUnit test formatter to AzurePipelinesBatch.yml
          STYLE: Add badge for Azure pipeline Linux code coverage build
          ENH: Warning when trying to open in Python an image file that doesn't exist
          BUG: Missing `ci_addons` to convert ctest results to JUnit format
          BUG: Disable itkObjectFactoryBasePrivateDestructor test with -static link flag
          ENH: Add Python function to print Python class name corresponding to C++ class
          ENH: Python ImageFileReader error message improvement
          ENH: Warning when trying to open in Python an image file that doesn't exist
          ENH: Follow up commit to fix itkBoundingBox with LEGACY support
          ENH: Follow up commit to fix itkBoundingBox with LEGACY support
          BUG: std::list of `LineSpatialObject` needs to be wrapped
          BUG: ITK could not find Eigen3::Eigen target when using system Eigen
          BUG: Revert changing call to `Initialize()` with `clear()`
          BUG: Corner positions were inserted at the end of a list that was initialized
          BUG: Enforces consistent types
          BUG: Remote modules Python files (*.so, *.py) were built in the wrong folder
    
    GDCM Upstream (1):
          GDCM 2019-05-16 (e405908e)
    
    Hans J. Johnson @hjmjohnson (20):
          BUG: Usage name did not match file name.
          STYLE: Minor indentation improvements.
          ENH: Enable ITKV3_COMPATIBILITY option
          STYLE: Remove outdated python examples
          STYLE: Syncronize changes between RegistrationITKv[34]
          STYLE: Remove RegistrationITKv3 duplicate examples
          ENH: Remove ITKV3_COMPATIBILITY support from ITKv5.0
          STYLE: Move deprecated Examples/RegistrationITKv3 to test
          BUG: Explicit RegisterRequiredFactories needed as test
          STYLE: Remove Software Guide tags from ITKv3 testing
          DOC: Make use of checkboxes consistent with github
          ENH: Add cmake override for GIT_TAG of remote modules
          STYLE: Remove custom environmental override for WikiExamples
          DOC: Fix spelling errors
          ENH: Identify histogram min/max for UseSampledPointSet
          BUG: itkConfigure.h defines ITK_DEFAULT_MAX_THREADS
          COMP: Remove unused static variable warning
          DOC: Remove documentation references to VectorResampleImageFilter
          DOC: Remove VectorCastImage documentation references
          ENH: Changes required for ITKv5 compatibility
    
    Jon Haitz Legarreta GorroΓ±o @jhlegarreta (4):
          STYLE: Remove tab.
          DOC: Improve remote modules' maintenance scripts documentation
          ENH: Add a script to apply another script to all remotes
          DOC: Modify the CoC breach reporting procedure
    
    Mathieu Malaterre @malaterre (3):
          STYLE: Teach git about GDCM oversize file
          BUG: Do not include COPYING from a non existing directory
          DOC: Fix old reference to Image Number
    
    Matthew McCormick @thewtex (23):
          COMP: Wrap functions for WindowedSincInterpolateImageFunction
          COMP: Wrapping windowed sinc function includes
          COMP: Update for changes to VTK target names
          DOC: Improve ease of release note command execution
          DOC: Document generation of MD5SUMS and SHA512SUMS files for releases
          DOC: Add More Information section to CONTRIBUTING
          DOC: Add ITK 5.0 RC 2 release notes
          BUG: PythonFindEmptyClasses test for windowed-sinc functions
          BUG: Prevent ITKMesh README.md from installation as header
          BUG: Fix identification of Clang major version
          COMP: ImageMaskSpatialObjectGTest array initialization
          COMP: ImageMaskSpatialObjectGTest add braces for initialization
          ENH: Expand ResampleImageFilter requested region by interpolator domain
          STYLE: Use typename instead of class in ImageSink
          STYLE: override methods should not be marked virtual
          BUG: ImageSink defines UpdateLargestPossibleRegion
          STYLE: StreamingProcessingObject passing void with no arguments
          BUG: {MinimumMaximum,StatisticsImageFilter} set PrimaryOutputName
          BUG: Remove MinimumMaximumImageFilter from module2module test pipeline
          BUG: InterpolateImageFunction::GetRadius hidden in ITKV4_COMPATIBILITY
          BUG: Condition Eigen export code on ITK_BINARY_DIR
          BUG: Fix ITKv3 registration test names for property setting
          BUG: Remove CTEST_TEST_TIME debug message
    
    MetaIO Maintainers (5):
          MetaIO 2019-05-03 (7e16abe1)
          MetaIO 2019-05-08 (dd5089a2)
          MetaIO 2019-05-15 (bffb2ef1)
          MetaIO 2019-05-16 (5010ab63)
          MetaIO 2019-05-21 (368213e5)
    
    Niels Dekker @N-Dekker (21):
          ENH: Add std style reverse iterators to FixedArray
          ENH: Add ImageMaskSpatialObject::ComputeMyBoundingBoxInIndexSpace()
          STYLE: SpatialObject() = default, const BoundingBox, Transform members
          ENH: Added tests for ImageMaskSpatialObject::IsInside
          ENH: Test ImageMaskSpatialObject::IsInside independent of distant pixels
          BUG: Fix issue #785 removing BoundingBox check from ImageMask IsInside
          PERF: Overload SpatialObject IsInsideInObjectSpace without name argument
          BUG: Half a pixel margin ImageMaskSpatialObject::ComputeMyBoundingBox()
          STYLE: Deprecated FixedArray member functions rBegin() and rEnd()
          STYLE: Replace std::swap_ranges by C++11 std::swap of m_InternalArray
          DOC: Use the term "object space" for ObjectSpace based member functions
          STYLE: Replace unsigned short by unsigned int as FixedArray index type
          STYLE: Explicitly defaulted default-constructors Vector Accessor classes
          STYLE: Ensure that ContinuousIndex TCoordRep is a floating point type
          ENH: Convenience overloads for ImageBase Transform member functions
          ENH: Add NumberOfCorners and ComputeCorners() to BoundingBox
          STYLE: Remove (deprecate) BoundingBox::GetCorners() + m_CornersContainer
          COMP: Fixed GCC4 missing-field-initializers warning on `{}` in GTest
          DOC: Fixed Doxygen description BoundingBox Get member functions
          DOC: Fixed Doxygen description BoundingBox Get member functions
          STYLE: Rename ITK macro EXPECT_VECTOR_NEAR to ITK_EXPECT_VECTOR_NEAR
    
    Roman Grothausmann @romangrothausmann (1):
          ENH: Bump remote module ParabolicMorphology
    
    Simon Rit @SimonRit (4):
          COMP: remove MSVC 14 C4800 (performance) warnings with FFTW
          COMP: remove unused parameter warning with GCC 4.8.5
          COMP: fix wrong GDCM library names for open jpeg
          ENH: update RTK remote file with release tag v2.0.1
    
    VXL Maintainers (1):
          VNL 2019-05-08 (99697e67)
    
    @maekclena (8):
          ENH: Update compiler macros (#810)
          BUG: Remove error prone test case
          BUG: Fix reverse iterator increment return type
          ENH: Add iterator increment operator return value test
          BUG: Minor python wrapping fixes
          ENH: Remove duplicate code
          ENH: Use ResampleImageFilter for vectors
          ENH: Deprecate VectorCastImageFilter (#870)
    
  • v5.0.rc02 Changes

    April 30, 2019

    πŸš€ We are happy to announce the Insight Toolkit (ITK) Release Candidate 2! πŸŽ‰ This will be the final release candidate before the 5.0.0 release, and the community is encouraged to adopt 5.0 RC 2 in ITK-based applications.

    πŸ“¦ Python Packages

    πŸ“¦ ITK Python packages can be installed by running:

    python -m pip install --upgrade pip
    python -m pip install --upgrade --pre itk
    

    Library Sources

    βœ… Testing Data

    βœ… Unpack optional testing data in the same directory where the Library Source is unpacked.

    Checksums

    ITKTotalVariationDenoising

    Image denoising with the new ITKTotalVariation remote module. Left: Transmission electron microscopy image of pectin. Right: Denoised image.

    This release features a major upgrade to the ITK Spatial Object framework, led by Stephen Aylward, with contributions from Hastings Greer, Forrest Lee, Niels Dekker, Dženan Zukić, and Hans Johnson. In ITK, a itk::SpatialObject provides a representation of objects and the mechanism to specify their spatial relationship relative to other objects in a scene. Objects can be images but also abstract, parametric entities, such as a ellipse, box, or arrow, or point-based, such as a tube, contour, or surface. Objects can be organized into spatial hierarchies.SpatialObjects are key for model-based registration, integration of segmentation results in multiple formats, conversions to and from images, and capturing spatial relationships between structures.

    In ITK 5, the SpatialObject framework was refactored to improve consistency in the the programming interface and simplify implementation and usage. As a result, incorrect or unexpected behaviors are avoided. Complexity and dependency were reduced by removing a dependency on the VNL tree data structures. Additionally, IndexSpace was removed from the API of all SpatialObjects to prevent ambiguity while providing a consistent and intuitive interface. Only two reference spaces are consistently and explicitly available in the API: ObjectSpace and WorldSpace. ObjectSpace is the space local to each object, where the object's parameters are defined. WorldSpace is the coordinate system defined by the top-level SpatialObject in a hierachy, which is defined by parent-child object relationships. Only two transforms are now consistently and explicitly available in the API: ObjectToParent transform and ObjectToWorld transform. The ObjectToParent transform moves an object within its parent's ObjectSpace. The ObjectToWorld transform is derived from component ObjectToParent transforms and is provided for convenience and to reduce redundant computations. The API is now more explicit regarding the space that an operation applies to. For instance, IsInside(point) is now IsInsideInObjectSpace(point) or IsInsideInWorldSpace(point). For more information on the SpatialObjects changes, see the ITK 5 Migration Guide.

    πŸš€ The Python package synchronization infrastructure for static global variables was refactored to support more variables and permit future additions to the singleton. This will prevent the need to rebuild remote module binary Python packages following future releases of ITK 5. However, current remote module Python packages that use ITK 5 should be rebuilt and republished for ITK 5.0 RC 2.

    πŸš€ For an overview of ITK 5's transition to modern C++, performance-related changes, the new, Pythonic API, the project's migration to GitHub, and Mesh improvements, see the ITK 5 Alpha 1: Modern C++, ITK 5 Alpha 2: Performance, ITK 5 Beta 1: Pythonic Interface, ITK 5 Beta 3: GitHub and ITK 5 Release Candidate 1: Meshes release announcements.

    RTK

    Tomographic phantom reconstruction with the new Reconstruction Toolkit (RTK) remote module.

    πŸ†• New Remote Modules

    • ITKIOScanco: read and write Scanco microCT .isq files.
    • ITKTotalVariation: total variation image denoising.
    • 🐎 ITKRTK: the Reconstruction Toolkit provides high performance implementations of advanced tomographic image reconstruction algorithms.
    • ITKThickness3D: compute the skeleton and thickness transform from 3D images.

    🐎 Performance Improvements

    • βž• Add MetaDataDictionary move support.
    • πŸ“‡ MetaDataDictionary uses copy-on-write.
    • πŸ—„ itk::Barrier is now deprecated: replace with the new multi-threading functions.
    • πŸ›  Range-based for loops supported in itk::FixedArray.
    • 🐎 Major performance improvements to TimeProbe, ResourceProbe constructor (issue #350).

    πŸ“š Documentation

    • Repository README files were migrated to Markdown.

    Infrastructure

    • πŸ— Continuous code coverage builds from Azure Pipelines.
    • πŸ‘ Better support for unicode in KWSys.
    • itksys::hash_map and itksys::hash_set are deprecated in favor of std equivalents.
    • πŸ†• New GitHub pull request templates and issue templates.
    • πŸ†• New scripts added to update ITK remote modules.

    Core

    • πŸš€ itk::SpatialObject framework refactored (see release notes introduction).
    • πŸŽ‰ Initial streaming support added to itk::ResampleImageFilter for linear transforms.

    Third Party

    • ⚑️ Eigen 3 updated to the latest version.
    • πŸ‘ Better support for building against a system Eigen.
    • ⚑️ GDCM updated to the latest version.
    • ⚑️ HDF5 updated to 1.10.4.
    • ITKVtkGlue support for VTK with VTK_RENDERING_BACKEND set to None.
    • ⚑️ KWSys updated to the latest version.
    • ⚑️ MetaIO updated to the latest version.
    • ⚑️ VXL updated to the latest version.
    • ⚑️ MINC updated to the latest version.

    Python

    • πŸ”¨ Static variable synchronization method refactored; ITK 5 remote module Python packages need to be rebuilt against 5.0 RC 2.
    • βž• Add wrapping for itk.PCAShapeSignedDistanceFunction.
    • πŸ“„ Docstrings added to snake case functions.
    • βœ… Python tests should now be defined in /wrapping/test/CMakeLists.txt to exclude their definition when wrapping is not enabled.
    • πŸ‘ Conversion between ITK matrices and NumPy arrays is now supported.
    • βž• Additional wrapping types for itk.ImageDuplicator.
    • βž• Additional types supported for NumPy <-> ITK Image conversion.
    • βž• Additional wrapping and typemaps for std::vector<itk::Image<...>::Pointer>.
    • βž• Add wrapping for itk.TriangleMeshToBinaryImageFilter.
    • βž• Add wrapping for itk.ExtrapolateImageFunction.
    • βž• Add wrapping for itk.WindowedSincInterpolateImageFunction.

    πŸš€ To install the 5.0 Release Candidate 2 Python packages, run

    python -m pip install --upgrade pip python -m pip install --upgrade --pre itk
    

    What's Next

    πŸš€ There are many more improvements not mentioned above. For more details, please see the change log below. Congratulations and thank you to everyone who contributed to this release.

    πŸ“š The ITK 5 Migration Guide is available to help transition a code base from ITK 4 to ITK 5. Please discuss your experiences on Discourse.

    πŸš€ The ITK 5.0.0 final release is scheduled for May.

    Enjoy ITK!

    πŸ”„ Changes from 5.0 RC 1 to 5.0 RC 2

    Bradley Lowekamp @blowekamp (14):
          ENH: Add move support to the MetaDataDictionary object
          PERF: Implement copy on write for MetaDataDictionary
          ENH: adding MetaDataDictionary GTests
          BUG: Do not modify MetaDataDictionary with operator[] const
          ENH: Improve ExposeMetaData efficiency
          COMP: Address CMake policy warnings in ThirdParty libraries
          ENH: Update AzurePipelines configuration from master
          ENH: Explicitly set the XCode version used in Azure
          COMP: Use CMP0048 new for wrapping
          COMP: Set CMP0048 to new in ITK (Remote) Modules
          COMP: Address OSX Clang "direct access" linkage warnings
          ENH: Add Azure Pipelines script for coverage
          BUG: Fix Li threshold calculator for negative image values
          DOC: Correct documented Canny Segmentation filter example
    
    Dženan Zukić @dzenanz (18):
          ENH: add better support for Unicode by using UTF-8 by default in KWSys
          BUG: propagate ITK_LIBRARY_PROPERTIES into zlib
          COMP: fixing MSVC warning C4800
          ENH: refactoring NarrowBandImageFilterBase to not use Barrier
          DOC: fixing code sample
          COMP: compile fixes for Visual Studio 2017
          ENH: ModifiedTimeType uses 64 bits on Windows - it was 32 before
          ENH: refactor itkThreadPoolTest and rename into itkMultithreadingTest
          ENH: shuffling tests in ITKCommon to make the split more logical
          ENH: introduce a parameter to control level of output
          ENH: concentrating WaitForAll() in Iterate()
          ENH: ParallelSparseFieldLevelSetImageFilter no longer uses barrier
          ENH: moving Barrier into Deprecated module
          ENH: prevent false sharing between threads
          STYLE: declaration alignment
          ENH: replace itksys::hash_map and hash_set by std equivalents
          COMP: missing override for destructors
          Update ITK5MigrationGuide.md
    
    Eigen Upstream (3):
          Eigen3 2019-01-26 (e2c082bf)
          Eigen3 2019-03-05 (0805e8fd)
          Eigen3 2019-03-14 (8a3c2d91)
    
    Forrest Li @floryst (4):
          ENH: Update arrow spatial object
          ENH: Update EllipseSpatialObject
          ENH: Update box spatial object
          ENH: Update polygon SO and delete polygon group SO
    
    Francois Budin @fbudin69500 (25):
          BUG: Implement but hide MetaDataDictionary iterator methods
          BUG: Explicitly give Python library path to ITK Python targets for MSVC
          ENH: Wrap itkPCAShapeSignedDistanceFunction
          ENH: Synchronize factories across modules in Python
          ENH: Explicitly return `None` when calling ` __call__ `` if filter has no output
          ENH: Deprecated object call function and improve procedural call function
          ENH: Adds argument completion with procedural calls
          ENH: Add docstring to snake case functions
          BUG: Disable Python tests if `ITK_BUILD_DEFAULT_MODULES` is OFF
          BUG: Returns a copy of the VNL matrix instead of a reference
          ENH: Add helper functions to convert NumPy arrays to ITK matrices and back
          ENH: Add `ttype` keyword in New() function for Python templated classes
          ENH: `isinstance()` can be called without template parameters of classinfo
          BUG: Wrap itkImageDuplicator for all image types as it is used by NumPyBridge
          ENH: itkPCAShapeSignedDistanceFunction supports float images
          ENH: Add advanced CMake option `ITK_DO_NOT_BUILD_TESTDRIVERS`
          ENH: Move part of CI configuration into Azure YML files
          ENH: Move Python tests into wrapping subfolder
          BUG: Correct CMake variable name and move baseline files to appropriate folder
          ENH: Only run Python tests on Linux and Windows
          ENH: Adds wrapping for std::vector<itk::Image<...>::Pointer> and typemaps
          ENH: New test to verify that` ObjectFactoryBasePrivate` is destroyed correctly
          ENH: Enable forcing creating snake_case function for non-ProcessObject classes
          ENH: Add snake case method for non itkProcess derived class itkImageDuplicator
          BUG: itkObjectFactoryBasePrivateDestructor was not compiling with MSVC
    
    GDCM Upstream @malaterre (3):
          GDCM 2019-02-07 (8e1cfd05)
          GDCM 2018-10-23 (2e701ed7)
          GDCM 2019-02-08 (815caa81)
    
    HDF5 Maintainers (1):
          HDF5 2018-10-15 (545c5fb2)
    
    Hans J. Johnson (27):
          STYLE: Remove exact duplicate test code
          ENH: Improve by adding enhanced complexity to testing
          ENH: Add test for IsInsideInObjectSpace.
          DOC: Improve diagnostic message from ExtractImageFilter
          ENH: TransformIOBaseTemplate Must be explicitly instantiated
          STYLE: Instance variables should be private
          STYLE: Move default [con/de]strutor to .h (part 2)
          STYLE: Class derived from TransformBase need explicit instantiation
          STYLE: Remove functions that are not used
          ENH: Use member functions with default values
          COMP: Refactor to remove const_cast of void *
          STYLE: Fix spelling s/ranage/range/g in comment.
          ENH: Improve coverage for itk::FastMarchingImageFilterBase.
          COMP: Allow compiler option fixed in gcc 4.1.0
          PERF: Allow overwriting ABI/Optimization & Warning flags
          DOC: Minor spelling corrections
          ENH: Improve test coverage of ImageMoments
          DOC: Expand GetAxisAlignedBoundingBoxRegion replacement code
          STYLE: Prefer using Update() for consistency
          ENH: Avoid deprecated SpatialObject function calls
          ENH: ProtectedComputeMyBoundingBox return not used
          ENH: Clean up tests to pass under new API
          COMP: Consolodate duplicate LogTester code
          COMP: Support ITK_LEGACY_REMOVE for SpatialObjects
          ENH: Add legacy interface to SpatialObjects
          BUG: Match return types for nullptr return values
          COMP: Remove compilation warning unmatched types
    
    Hastings Greer @HastingsGreer (6):
          BUG: ImageSpatialObject's BoundingBox was nonfunctional if not axis aligned
          BUG: ImageMaskSpatialObject::IsInside uses image cosines
          COMP: fix compilation errors
          COMP: Various compiler errors
          COMP: fixes to enable compilation with gcc
          COMP: Update tests
    
    Jerome Schmid @schmidje (1):
          COMP: VtkGlue module-Provide support for VTK new cmake targets
    
    Jon Haitz Legarreta GorroΓ±o @jhlegarreta (29):
          ENH: Add a PrintHelper file to overload boolean and vector printing.
          ENH: Add a parameter to test to improve `itk::ResampleImageFilter` testing.
          ENH: Update the ITKIOFDF remote module.
          ENH: Improve `itk::ResampleImageFilter` class coverage.
          BUG: Fix `Γ¬tkResmapleImageTest2` test failing on 32-bit systems.
          DOC: Transition `Examples` folder `README` file to Markdown.
          DOC: Increase `VNL` ThirdParty module `README` information accuracy.
          ENH: Conform to GitHub PR and issue template guidelines.
          DOC: Transition the `Nonunit/Review` `README` to Markdown syntax.
          ENH: Bump the latest version of the `ITKThickness3D` remote.
          BUG: Fix GitHub community template syntax errors.
          STYLE: Transition GitHub community template filenames to lowercase.
          DOC: Change GitHub community template guidelines to HTML comment markup.
          ENH: Add new GitHub community issue templates.
          STYLE: Improve coverage issue template name wording.
          DOC: Fix PR template not being displayed.
          DOC: Add emojis to GitHub issue templates.
          ENH: Update a few remote modules to their latest commit versions.
          DOC: Improve the CONTRIBUTING guidelines document
          DOC: Fix typo.
          DOC: Add checklist to PR template.
          ENH: Add a script to update the remote module commit hashes
          ENH: Add a script to update the ITK tag as required in files
          ENH: Update the Remote module Python package version automatically
          STYLE: Rename remote module maintenance script
          DOC: Add Remote module PyPI update notice in Release guide
          ENH: Bump remote modules.
          ENH: Bump remote modules to latest commits
          ENH: Bump remote modules to their latest commits
          COMP: Fix Software Guide line length too long warnings
    
    KWSys Upstream @bradking (2):
          KWSys 2019-02-14 (e270ce9f)
          KWSys 2019-03-28 (e92bdbe8)
    
    Matthew McCormick @thewtex (51):
          ENH: Use HDF5 1.10.4
          DOC: Updates to the README
          DOC: Use 'ITK: The Insight Toolkit' for README title
          ENH: Add legacy multi-frame DICOM MD5 content links
          COMP: Avoid duplicate wrapping of VectorContainer with unsigned short
          BUG: MeshIOBase ivars used for number points, cells, pixels
          STYLE: Keep ProjectObject methods protected in ResampleImageFilter
          STYLE: Remove unnecessary ResampleImageFilter input/output checks
          DOC: Updates to the Release documentation for 5.0 RC 1
          ENH: Update CI ExternalDataVersion to 5.0rc01
          DOC: Add ITK 5 Release Candidate 1 release notes
          ENH: Add regression test for reading legacy multi-frame DICOM
          ENH: Update itk_hdf5_mangle.h for HDF5 1.10.4
          COMP: Re-apply HDF5 Emscripten clobbered by 1.10.4 update
          ENH: Add probot-stale GitHub bot configuration
          ENH: Add test result analysis to Azure Pipelines web interface
          COMP: Set CMP0083 for PIE flags
          COMP: HDF5 CMake does not have INTEGER cache type
          COMP: Do not also pass png_ptr twice to png_set_error_fn
          ENH: Wrap TriangleMeshToBinaryImageFilter
          PERF: Use constexpr in complex NumericTraits
          BUG: VTKPolyDataMeshIO CanReadFile returns false for non-PolyData
          COMP: Set CMP0083 for PIE flags
          BUG: Use VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL for PIE check
          ENH: Bump CMakeLists.txt version to 4.13.2
          ENH: Add missing SHA512 content link
          ENH: Explicitly use Python 3.7 in Azure builds
          COMP: Prevent duplicate wrapping ouput file specification
          BUG: Add executable bit to prefer-type-alias-over-typedef.sh
          COMP: Specify type in LiThresholdCalculator min call
          ENH: Wrap ExtrapolateImageFunction
          ENH: Add Python wrapping for SymmetricEigenAnalysisImageFilter
          BUG: Add missing ITKImageGrid circle.png content links
          BUG: itkResampleImageTest2Streaming verification
          ENH: Add IOScanco remote module
          COMP: Add backwards compatible EnlargeRegionOverBox
          BUG: Set dashboard_do_coverage in Azure configuration
          COMP: Add export specification to ITKSpatialObjects
          BUG: Mark HDF5 CMake variables as advanced
          BUG: Mark INSTALL_GTEST CMake variable as advanced
          STYLE: NIFTI CMake variable spacing
          BUG: Do not use CACHE variables for NIFTI when not required
          BUG: Mark TESTLIB_VCL_WHERE_ROOT_DIR_H as advanced
          BUG: Remove BUILD_* GDCM settings from the cache
          BUG: Remove ALLOW_UNSUPPORTED from the cache
          STYLE: C-style variable declarations in WindowedSinceInterpolateImageFunction
          ENH: Add wrapping for WindowedSincInterpolateImageFunction
          ENH: ITKVtkGlue only requires rendering libraries when needed
          COMP: GaussianInterpolateImageFunction test narrowing
          BUG: Allow Python tests in module test/CMakeLists.txt
          ENH: Add new content links for ITK 5.0 RC 2
    
    MetaIO Maintainers (2):
          MetaIO 2019-01-15 (6efa2b32)
          MetaIO 2019-04-24 (9d2012d1)
    
    Mihail Isakov @issakomi (4):
          BUG: WhatModulesITK.py doesn't detect ITKMeshIO
          STYLE: header included twice, spelling
          BUG: index overflow in BinaryMask3DMeshSource
          BUG: changed to signed
    
    Niels Dekker @N-Dekker (28):
          PERF: Remove SystemInformation data from ResourceProbe, fix issue #350
          COMP: Fix support itk::VectorContainer<TElementIdentifier, bool>
          COMP: Fix SymmetricEigenAnalysis support TMatrix = itk::Array2D<T>
          COMP: Trailing return types (reference, const_reference) VectorContainer
          STYLE: HoughTransform2DCircles, GaussianDerivativeImageFunc member init.
          COMP: Win32Header no longer disable MSVC warning C4800, C4290, C4786
          COMP: Removed unreachable code, fixing VS2017 warning (level 4) C4702
          STYLE: Removed '2' from GaussianDerivativeImageFunction::ImageDimension2
          STYLE: Renamed SpatialFunction within GaussianDerivativeImageFunction
          BUG: Fixes crashes in unit tests when argv[0] == nullptr
          STYLE: Removed InitializeConstShapedNeighborhoodIterator()
          STYLE: ImageFileReader uses std::unique_ptr<[]>, try-catch-throw removed
          STYLE: Renamed array of radii EllipseSpatialObject to RadiiInObjectSpace
          STYLE: Remove GetPixelTypeName() from both Image and Mesh SpatialObject
          ENH: GTest for ImageMaskSpatialObject::GetAxisAlignedBoundingBoxRegion()
          STYLE: Removed unused private EventObject::EventFactoryFunction type
          COMP: Support ITK_LEGACY_SILENT for ThreadInfoStruct
          STYLE: Removed five unused nested types from ImageSpatialObject
          ENH: Add static member function Size<VDimension>::Filled(SizeValueType)
          STYLE: Removed legacy-only ComputeMyBoundingBox() which was not in ITK4
          STYLE: Renamed ProtectedComputeMyBoundingBox() to ComputeMyBoundingBox()
          STYLE: Remove const from SpatialObject::ComputeMyBoundingBox()
          BUG: Fix #734 Incorrect results GetAxisAlignedBoundingBoxRegion() for 2D
          ENH: Extend test ImageMaskSpatialObject::GetAxisAlignedBoundingBoxRegion
          STYLE: SpatialObject GetModifiableMyBoundingBoxInObjectSpace() non-const
          PERF: ImageMaskSpatialObject::GetAxisAlignedBoundingBoxRegion() faster
          ENH: Add explicit constructors Point and FixedArray for C++11 std::array
          ENH: Add begin() and end() to FixedArray, support range-based for-loops
    
    Pablo Hernandez-Cerdan @phcerdan (11):
          ENH: Add itk-module-init.cmake to Eigen3
          COMP: Make ThirdParty Eigen3 COMPILE_DEPENDS
          COMP: Revert "COMP: Make ThirdParty Eigen3 COMPILE_DEPENDS"
          BUG: Fix Eigen3 INSTALL_DIR
          DOC: Update ITK5MigrationGuide
          BUG: Fix OFFIS_DMCTK_VERSION_NUMBER where wrunlock was introduced
          BUG: Fix export for ITKDeprecated classes
          BUG: Do no install any Eigen3 targets if ITK_USE_SYSTEM_EIGEN=ON
          ENH: Update Remote Module IsotropicWavelets
          ENH: Add COMPILE_DEFINITIONS to castxml
          ENH: Add remote module TotalVariation
    
    Roman Grothausmann @romangrothausmann (4):
          ENH: new tests to verify streaming capabilities of itkResampleImageFilter
          BUG: corrected logic for checking that streaming was not used
          ENH: compare outputs of itkResampleImageTest2Streaming to determine success:
          ENH: Stream ResampleImageFilter for linear transforms
    
    Simon Rit @SimonRit (2):
          ENH: add RTK as a remote module
          ENH: added test to check that Matrix returns a copy of the vnl matrix
    
    Stephen R.Aylward @aylward (47):
          ENH: Refactor of SpatialObject top-level class
          ENH: Remove itkAffineGeometryFrame file
          ENH: Update ArrowSpatialObject
          ENH: Children name match using string.find (i.e., any substring)
          ENH: Refined SpatialObject base class and organized .h. Refactoring.
          ENH: Refactor Line and Landmark Spatial Objects
          ENH: Refactor Mesh and fix bugs found in previous refactorings
          BUG: Remove itkPlaneSpatialObject because it implemented a boxSO
          ENH: Refactor itkPolygon[Group]SpatialObject
          ENH: Refactor Scene to be a Group and refine base SpatialObject
          ENH: Refactoring the SpatialObject to be more intuitive
          ENH: SpatialObjects have "MyBoundingBox" and "FamilyBoundingBox"
          ENH: Resolved SpatialObject member function and variable names
          ENH: Updated subclasses to match SpatialObjectAPI
          ENH: SpatialObjectPoint and Properties updated
          ENH: Removed unwanted TreeNode classes
          ENH: Removing outdated source files
          COMP: SpatialObjectProperties now a cxx file that compiles
          ENH: Refactor SpatialObjectPoints and TubeSpatialObjectPoints
          ENH: Update PolygonGroup IO to use new spatial object classes
          ENH: Refactoring for IO
          ENH: Renamed functions to make coordinate system explicit
          ENH: Refactoring Meta*Converter classes
          ENH: Update to tests to fit new SO API
          BUG: Fixed bugs on windows for tests
          ENH: Updated wrapping and examples to compile SpatialObjects
          ENH: Updated itkGetObjectMcro to itkGetModifiableObjectMacro
          ENH: Updates to fix failing tests
          ENH: Fix two more tests
          BUG: Fix bug in ImageMaskSO bounding box
          ENH: Making tests pass...one bug at a time...
          BUG: Missing center computation in isInside function for Ellipse
          ENH: Adding support for Clone member function to perform a deep copy
          BUG: Last spatial-object-specific tests now pass.
          BUG: Fix const issues regarding My/Family Bounding Box
          BUG: Fix warnings and other minor things
          ENH: Fixing PolygonSpatialObject
          ENH: Made ContourSO and PolygonSO more consistent in logic
          BUG: Fix IsInsideObjectSpace function in PolygonSpatialObject
          BUG: Fix multiple bugs in refactoring of spatial objects
          DOC: SpatialObject docs in migration guide (#630)
          DOC: Detail function change in ImageMaskSpatialObject
          DOC: Specify ITK class alternatives to removed SO member functions
          BUG: Adds RemovePoint() to PointBasedSpatialObjects (#693)
          DOC: PointBasedSpatialObject's PointListType migration docs provided (#652)
          BUG: Adding a consistent Clear() to SpatialObjects (#700)
          DOC: Update recommendation for computing a Boundoing Region in IndexSpace (#699)
    
    Thomas Janvier @T4mmi (1):
          ENH: Add Thickness3D Remote module.
    
    VXL Maintainers (3):
          VNL 2019-03-04 (1e8a027f)
          VNL 2019-03-11 (3d183906)
          VNL 2019-03-22 (d0ff9f72)
    
    Vladimir S. FONOV @vfonov (2):
          MINC 2019-04-23 (44fae20d)
          ENH: fixed build script
    
    Ziv Yaniv @zivy (1):
          BUG: PNGImageIO segfaults on corrupt png.
    
    @maekclena (13):
          BUG: Initialize array with expected number of elements
          BUG: Disable TIFF predictor
          BUG: Python3 compatibility
          ENH: Cleanup python wrapping tests
          ENH: Address review comments
          ENH: Update maintenance script
          BUG: Replace sed by ex for portability
          ENH: fix inconsistencies and clearer output
          ENH: Update remote modules
          BUG: fix gaussian interpolate test
          BUG: Ignore comment lines
          STYLE: Visually indent array
          BUG: Remove outdated class declaration