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MITK ReleaseNotes 2015.05

This is the 2015.05 release of the MITK release cycle. You find a list of new features, bug fixes and known issues below:

What is included?

Binary installers for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are provided, which contain the MITK Workbench application. In addition to image loading/saving and level windowing, the following plugins are included:

Volume Visualization
Measurement
Interactive Segmentation
Logging View
Remeshing
Pointset Interaction
Image Cropper
View Navigator
Screenshot Maker
Movie Maker
experimental Point-based, rigid and manual registration
experimental DICOM Query/Retrieve (based on components from the Common Toolkit CTK)

Please note that the installers neither contain the source code nor header files of the precompiled libraries. To develop applications or plug-ins with MITK please get the source code.

How to get it?

Please have a look at the download page.

Highlights of 2015.05 release

Build system

C++ 11 support (see C++ 11/14 Status)
CMake 3.2 is the minimum required version
Qt 5 is default for Windows and Linux, Qt 4 for Mac OS X
Minimum required compiler versions: GNU 4.7.3, Clang 3.4, AppleClang 5.0, MSVC 2012
Directory layout has changed (e.g. external projects moved to top-level "ep" directory)
Source files of modules are organized in src and include directories

Core modules

Cleanup of the geometry classes:
- GeometryTransformHolder is a new helper class which manages the transform related variables. Its job is to keep all information about the transform (as e.g.: spacing, offset, transformation matrices) in consistent states. It provides getters and setters to all transformation related information. To make sure that the geometries are in a proper state, you should always use the set methods to change them.
- BackTransform() function is removed. Please use WorldToIndex() instead.
- The scaling factor in the PlaneGeometry class is removed. It can be calculated directly by GetExtent()/GetExtentInMM().
- Pre- and Post-functions are removed and not necessary any more (except PreSetSpacing). New functions are CheckBounds() and CheckIndexToWorldTransform. Assertions can be implemented in these functions (e.g. see PlaneGeometry.cpp). If you implement these functions in a subclass, make sure to have an implementation of this function (e.g. inheritance BaseGeometry <- A <- B. Implementation of CheckBounds in class B needs implementation in A as well!).

BlueBerry

The MITK application framework BlueBerry got a lot of attention, resulting in a cleaner plug-in structure and an improved API. Standard MITK plug-ins will need no or only minimal code changes to be compatible with this new version.

Removed Functionality

The following deprecated functionality has been removed

BlueBerry plug-in system: The org.blueberry.compat plugin was removed and the non plug-in system related code from the org.blueberry.osgi and org.blueberry.solstice.common plug-ins was merged with the org.blueberry.core.runtime plug-in.

Changed API

The org.blueberry.ui plug-in was merged with the org.blueberry.ui.qt plug-in, removing one level of indirection related to the usage of GUI classes within BlueBerry.
Many usages of STL containers and Poco types in method signatures have been replaced with their Qt counterparts. This may affect derived classes which need to adapt the signature of methods intended to override base class methods.
The berry::IApplication interface was changed to support an application context and generic return values
The org.blueberry.osgi.application extension point now requires the application id to be an attribute of the extension tag instead of the application tag.

New Features

Commands and Handlers - A powerful mechanism for extending menus and toolbars. BlueBerry now implements the Eclipse command framework and provides the org.blueberry.ui.menus extension point for adding UI contributions to menus, toolbars, status bars and context menus. More detailed information about the concepts can be found in the original Eclipse documentation:
New plug-in and framework debugging features. BlueBerry makes use of the improved debugging facilities in the CTK Plugin Framework as described in How to enable debugging output.

Modules

The following modules were added or factored out from existing modules:

AlgorithmsExt: Added the anisotropic iterative closest point registration algorithm (AICP) for surfaces
Multilabel Module: Contains data structures and mappers for displaying multilabel data
RDF: Containing basic support for dealing with RDF data
AppUtil: A utility module for launching BlueBerry applications

Python

Fixed MITK-Python installers for all supported platforms with Qt4
Added documentation and build instructions for the MITK-Python module
Added build instructions for MITK-Python with Qt5
Experimental Qt5 support
Upgraded to Numpy 1.9.2

Segmentation

The 3D-interpolation has been extended to work on 4D-images as well.
Segmentation Utilities View was extended for a ContourModelToImage tab, which allows to convert contour data into an binary image
Morphological operators can now be applied in 2D

MITK Navigation Modules (IGT, US and ToF)

Please see MITK_IGT_ReleaseNotes_2015.05.

Diffusion

To ease maintenance, the DiffusionImage class has been removed. All functionality previously provided by the DiffusionImage can now be achieved by using the Image class. For an example of how to change your code see the DiffusionImageMigrationGuide
The new reader/writer concept, introduced in the last release, has enabled us to recognize and load .nrrd and .nii/.nii.gz images as diffusion weighted images if diffusion information is present. You no longer need to rename them to .dwi or .fsl/fslgz. You can still read the old files however.

MITK Workbench

A new Perspectives preference page allows custom perspectives to be reset or removed.
Views are not listed as tool bar buttons any more. Instead the view shortcuts of the currently active perspective are shown in the Show View sub-menu.
A new Show View / Other... menu entry allows to browse all available views by category and keyword
A perspective shortcut list is now available in the Open Perspective sub-menu
The Open Perspective / Other... menu entry allows to browse and open any available perspective
If multiple workbench windows are open, the list of windows is displayed in the Window menu
A MRU list (most recently used) of editor inputs is shown in the File menu if the editor supports it.

Third-Party Toolkits

The following toolkits were updated:

OpenCV was updated to 2.4.11
VTK was updated to 6.2

The following third-party toolkits were added to the MITK superbuild:

HDF5
Redland, Raptor, Rasqal for RDF support

Deprecated Functionality

The documentation contains a detailed list of deprecated functionality.

Major Changes ahead

We are currently working on restructuring a lot of Geometry and Interaction related code. This will lead to breaking changes that will be introduced after this release, so be sure to study the updated deprecated list. Most significant changes are

DisplayGeometry (will become obsolete)
Legacy Interaction will be completely removed

Please be sure follow our annoucements on the MITK Mailing-List concerning these changes.

Bugfixes

In the 6 months since the last release around 240 bugs were fixed.

New feature list

Complete list of new features since MITK 2014.10:

ID	Comp	Summary
18781	BlueBerry	Logging View: Reset search filter button is missing
18319	Build system	Update default build configuration with new release plugins
18532	Build system	Enhance Module and Plugin Preset Configurations
18118	Build system	Update SOFA to latest revision (18/09/2014).
18657	Build system	Update ITK to version 4.7.0
18765	Build system	move vigra and hdf5 open source
18605	Build system	Support modern CMake and C++11 features
18653	Core	Extend custom mime type by functions to get filename and extension
14866	Core	Make FileReader and FileWriter Microservice-based
18850	Core	Allow setting point size for surface rendering
18313	Diffusion	implement direction dependent fiber removal
18568	Diffusion	implement improved method to process fiber bundle curvatures
17928	Diffusion	Convert diffusion image to mitk image
16656	Diffusion	Fiberextraction: placed planar figure should be automatically selected after placing
18641	Diffusion	Support diffusion images in .nii format
18767	Diffusion	move machine learning based tractography to MITK
18844	Diffusion	Fiberfox: add partial fourier and move noise to k-space
15459	Diffusion	Enable loading of SIEMENS MOSAIC DICOM diffusion files
18182	IGT	IGT Release Candidates 2014-10
18295	IGT	Add Virtual Tracking Device to UI of tracking toolbox
18267	IGT	Feature to freeze navigation data source
8329	IGT	Integrate VirtualTrackingDevice into NavigationToolStorage
19005	IGT	Extend NavigationDataPlayer to work with .csv
17739	Measurement	Change PlanarFigure::PolyLineElement to Point2D
14580	Measurement	Allow measurement on all data with geometry
14643	Measurement	Delete planar figures after selecting them in the four window view
18481	Modules	Image to UnstructuredGrid filter
18556	Modules	Add CopyDeep method to PlanarFigure
18579	Modules	Move the mitkPlaneFit Filter from mbi to mitk
18637	Modules	DBSCAN filter for unstructured grids in mitk
18682	Modules	Add colorbar overlay
18802	Modules	Create MitkSurfaceToPointSetFilter
18886	Modules	New convenient methods to insert openCV images as time slice in mitk image
18062	Modules	It should be possible to select nothing in QmitkDataStorageComboBox
14717	Python Wrapping	Add detailed Documentation for Python module and view
18536	Rendering	Add Overlay flag to render mitkOverlays on top
9899	Rendering	Surfaces seem to be rendered in software modus
19044	Rendering	Transparent JET LUT
17810	Segmentation	Enhance segmentation utilities with contourmodel to image functionality
18541	Segmentation	Create module for multilabel segmentation
18567	Segmentation	Enable 2D morphological operations in segmentation utility plugin
16133	Segmentation	Provide 4D support for 3D interpolation
18728	ToF	Create a Parameter Widget for Structure Sensor
18423	ToF	View for saving screen shots of ToF images for calibration
18222	Workbench	CMD Plugin does not support MiniApp
18732	Workbench	Make Base data property list available in developer mode of Properties view
18957	Workbench	Enhance Properties View Usability
18219	Workbench	View navigator: copying perspective does not take into account changes made to copied perspective.

Known Issues

Incomplete list of known issues affecting the binary release of MITK 2015.05:

ID	Comp	Summary
19054	BlueBerry	Save Perspective As dialog shows wrong item names
19057	BlueBerry	Context help will not open on F1 after starting
19089	BlueBerry	Some application menu entries are not shown on Mac OS X
19122	BlueBerry	Help Contents view contains only one entry on first start
19123	BlueBerry	"General" preferences pages missing on first start

For a more complete and up-to-date list of all current major bugs check our bug tracker

List of all contributors

We want to thank all developers who contributed to the MITK 2015.05 release:

Adrian Winterstein
Alfred Franz
Andreas Fetzer
Caspar Goch
Christian Weber
Christoph Kolb
Daniel Knorr
Eric Heim
Esther Wild
Heather
Ingmar Wegner
Jan Hering
Jan Zieher
Jasmin Metzger
Jonas Cordes
Joseph Görres
Keno März
Marco Nolden
Markus Engel
Martin Klemm
Matt Clarkson
Matthias Eisenmann
Michael Brehler
Michael Goetz
Miklos Espak
Nico Riecker
Paul Mercea
Peter Neher
Rostislav Khlebnikov
Sandy Engelhardt
Sascha Zelzer
Sebastian Wirkert
Stefan Kislinskiy
Thomas Kilgus
Thomas Kirchner
Tobias Norajitra
Vincent Reuter

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 == Highlights of 2015.05 release ==
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 * Directory layout has changed (e.g. external projects moved to top-level "ep" directory)
 * Source files of modules are organized in src and include directories
 === Core modules ===
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 ** Pre- and Post-functions are removed and not necessary any more (except PreSetSpacing). New functions are CheckBounds() and CheckIndexToWorldTransform. Assertions can be implemented in these functions (e.g. see PlaneGeometry.cpp). If you implement these functions in a subclass, make sure to have an implementation of this function (e.g. inheritance BaseGeometry <- A <- B. Implementation of CheckBounds in class B needs implementation in A as well!).
-=== Blueberry ===
+=== BlueBerry ===
 The MITK application framework BlueBerry got a lot of attention, resulting in a cleaner plug-in structure and an improved API. Standard MITK plug-ins will need no or only minimal code changes to be compatible with this new version.
 ==== Removed Functionality ====
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 * BlueBerry plug-in system: The org.blueberry.compat plugin was removed and the non plug-in system related code from the org.blueberry.osgi and org.blueberry.solstice.common plug-ins was merged with the org.blueberry.core.runtime plug-in.
 ==== Changed API ====
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 * The berry::IApplication interface was changed to support an application context and generic return values
 * The org.blueberry.osgi.application extension point now requires the application id to be an attribute of the extension tag instead of the application tag.
 ==== New Features ====
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 ** [http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions Command Core Expressions]
 * New plug-in and framework debugging features. BlueBerry makes use of the improved debugging facilities in the CTK Plugin Framework as described in [[How to enable debugging output]].
 === Modules ===
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 * RDF: Containing basic support for dealing with RDF data
 * AppUtil: A utility module for launching BlueBerry applications
 ==== Python ====
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 * Experimental Qt5 support
 * Upgraded to Numpy 1.9.2
 ==== Segmentation ====
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 * Segmentation Utilities View was extended for a ContourModelToImage tab, which allows to convert contour data into an binary image
 * Morphological operators can now be applied in 2D
 ==== MITK Navigation Modules (IGT, US and ToF) ====
 Please see [[MITK_IGT_ReleaseNotes_2015.05]].
 ==== Diffusion ====
 * To ease maintenance, the DiffusionImage class has been removed. All functionality previously provided by the DiffusionImage can now be achieved by using the Image class. For an example of how to change your code see the [[DiffusionImageMigrationGuide]]
 * The new reader/writer concept, introduced in the last release, has enabled us to recognize and load .nrrd and .nii/.nii.gz images as diffusion weighted images if diffusion information is present. You no longer need to rename them to .dwi or .fsl/fslgz. You can still read the old files however.
 === MITK Workbench ===
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 * If multiple workbench windows are open, the list of windows is displayed in the ''Window'' menu
 * A MRU list (most recently used) of editor inputs is shown in the ''File'' menu if the editor supports it.
 ==== Third-Party Toolkits ====
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 * HDF5
 * Redland, Raptor, Rasqal for RDF support
 == Deprecated Functionality ==
 The documentation contains a detailed list of [http://docs.mitk.org/2015.05/deprecatedSince2015_05.html deprecated functionality].
 == Major Changes ahead ==
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 Please be sure follow our annoucements on the MITK Mailing-List concerning these changes.
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 |View navigator: copying perspective does not take into account changes made to copied perspective.
 |}
 == Known Issues ==
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 For a more complete and up-to-date list of all current major bugs check our [http://bugs.mitk.org/buglist.cgi?priority=high&priority=medium&priority=low&f1=creation_ts&list_id=83733&bug_severity=blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&o1=lessthan&resolution=---&query_format=advanced&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CONFIRMED&bug_status=IN_PROGRESS&v1=2015-06-03&component=BlueBerry&component=Build%20system&component=Core&component=CoreApp%20Plugins&component=CoreUI&component=Documentation&component=Measurement%20%26%20Statistics&component=Modules&component=Other&component=Python%20Wrapping&component=QtWidgetModules&component=Rendering&component=Segmentation&component=Workbench%20Plugins&product=MITK bug tracker]
+== List of all contributors ==
+We want to thank all developers who contributed to the MITK 2015.05 release:
+* Adrian Winterstein
+* Alfred Franz
+* Andreas Fetzer
+* Caspar Goch
+* Christian Weber
+* Christoph Kolb
+* Daniel Knorr
+* Eric Heim
+* Esther Wild
+* Heather
+* Ingmar Wegner
+* Jan Hering
+* Jan Zieher
+* Jasmin Metzger
+* Jonas Cordes
+* Joseph Görres
+* Keno März
+* Marco Nolden
+* Markus Engel
+* Martin Klemm
+* Matt Clarkson
+* Matthias Eisenmann
+* Michael Brehler
+* Michael Goetz
+* Miklos Espak
+* Nico Riecker
+* Paul Mercea
+* Peter Neher
+* Rostislav Khlebnikov
+* Sandy Engelhardt
+* Sascha Zelzer
+* Sebastian Wirkert
+* Stefan Kislinskiy
+* Thomas Kilgus
+* Thomas Kirchner
+* Tobias Norajitra
+* Vincent Reuter