MITK ReleaseNotes 2012.09

MITK 2012.09 Release Notes

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This is the second release in the new MITK release cycle. The complete list of new features, bug fixes and known issues is down on this page.

What's included?

There are binary installers for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Additional to the basic plugins of our first release ( visualization, measurement and interactive segmentation) two new plugins are included: a new logging view and a experimental plugin for DICOM Import and Query/Retrieve based on components from the Common Toolkit CTK.

The application itself was renamed from ExtApp to MITK Workbench. Please note that the installers do not contain the source code or header files for the precompiled libraries. To develop applications or plugins with MITK please get the source code.

How to get it?

Please have a look at the download page.

Highlights of 2012.09 release

• General:
  • Upgraded the VTK version in the superbuild to VTK 5.8 with an option to select VTK 5.10
• Core library:
  • Loading and saving 2D images with 3D geometry is now possible
  • New guidelines and utility macros for consistent exception handling
  • Improved logging system handling MITK and third-party log messages
  • Support for loading tilted gantry images
  • Event notification policy for the mitkGlobalInteraction. The GlobalInteraction class can now be told to inform only the one listener who can handle the event best.
  • CanHandleEvent function for StateMachine. Like interactors the statemachine now has a CanHandleEvent function too.
  • Improved/faster rendering of binary images
• Application:
  • The main application executable has been renamed from ExtApp to mitkWorkbench and is now referred to as the MITK Workbench
  • Experimental DICOM Query/Retrieve support via our new DICOM Plugin
  • Renamed "transversal" orientation to more commonly used "axial"
• Documentation:
  • New doxygen command to mark functions as deprecated
  • Improved documentation structure
• Segmentation:
  • Completely VTK-based reslicing, i.e. faster and more accurate contouring in rotated slices
  • New Otsu threshold segmentation
  • Fixed crosshair rotation during contouring
  • Undo/Redo is now working for contouring in rotated slices
• MITK-IGT:
  • Exception handling concept for MITK IGT
• MITK-Tof:
  • Integration of ToF endoscope
• MITK Diffusion:
  • There will be a new MITK Diffusion release based on MITK 2012.09 soon
• Video Support:
  • OpenCV 2.4.2 included in our super build
• Measurement:
  • Histogram boundaries of the statistic view are no longer limited
  • Fixed crash of the statistics view when using it together with the segmentation plugin
  • Calculation of the image statistics is now running in a background thread

Bugfixes

In the 3 months since the last release more than 300 bugs were fixed.

Not anything could be fixed in time, so here are the most important known issues

New feature list

Complete list of new features since MITK 2012.06

1770	Design exception handling concept for MITK-IGT
3137	Improve IGT-Pipeline handling
4525	Make DICOM IO Version configurable
7994	Realize undo functionality for the segmentation in rotated planes
8130	Refurbish property system
8684	Make a tree out of the property table
9112	NavigationDataPlayer should offer a method to check if the stream is valid
9541	Enhance FiberBundle Developer View
10050	Integrate a CTK Plugin for DICOM support in MITK
10333	implement an overwriteImageFilter based on the algorithm of vtkImageReslice
10410	Tracking Volume of Polaris Vicra is of wrong type
10956	Import DICOM data using the ctkEventBus
11106	Reformatting of Tilted Gantry series in DICOMSeriesReader
11783	Create new Overlay that holds a custom widget
11838	move the mesh decimation plugin to the open source MITK
11980	DWI create a b-Value map
11993	New logging features of MITK
11996	Advanced B0 Extraction will extract only the first one
12091	Implement possibility to remove short fibers from fiber bundle
12141	Add exception handling to class NavigationDataPlayer
12148	usUtils.cpp will not compile with Visual Studio when using the /MD flag
12150	Multishell support for ReduceDirectionGradientsFilter
12226	copy all curves in tbss plot widget to clipboard instead of average
12244	Change class structure of EnergyCalculator in Gibbs-Tracking.
12333	Integrate USImageMetadata into ServiceProperties
12353	Extend capabilities of USImageSource
12400	PlanarFigureMapper2D should be able to display name and features more flexibly
12490	Polish Imaging Preview Feature of Ultrasound Plugin
12561	implement removal of fibers with too high curvature
12565	Add example doxygen documentation
12649	Enable Microservice Support for IGT
12659	Create link page for developers to doxygen
12681	Add Rethrow macro to exception macros
12718	Build DCMTK as shared libraries (optionally)
12719	mitk.gui.qt.dicom use icons and progress dialog
12750	Make US Device support Transformations
12757	Rework Templating for QmitkServiceListWidget
12787	Implement NavigationDataSourceSelectionWidget
12821	Added persistence caparbilities for Debug options in CameraCalibration Module
12841	mitk.gui.qt.dicom storescp should provide user feedback
12843	Add feature to define tool tip for navigation tools
12856	Support OpenCV 2.4.2 via superbuild
12890	Diffusion Particle Grid needs extended constructor Parameter
12915	Add 3D+t-Heart test data to MITK-Data
12993	Adapter class for vtk output window
13047	Implement adapter class for itk logging
13076	Configure F1 help on a per view basis
13081	Create custom doxygen command to manage deprecated and removed functions
13120	Improve MITK Workbench welcome text
13197	Image Navigator deactivated per default