MITK ReleaseNotes 2016.03

This is the 2016.03 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, Linux, and OS X 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 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 2016.03 release

Build system

Qt 4 support was dropped completely
Qt 5 is supported up to version 5.5 (MITK Python components up to version 5.4)
CMake 3.2 still is the minimum required version
Minimum required compiler versions:
- GNU 4.7.3
- Clang 3.4
- AppleClang 5.0
- MSVC 2012 (deprecated, will be MSVC 2013 in next release)

Core modules

BlueBerry

Removed Functionality

Changed API

Subtle changes in public interface of mitk::DataInteractor (see migration example):
- Get/SetDataNode() method signatures changed from mitk::DataNode::Pointer to native pointers
- NodeType typedef was removed

New Features

Modules

MITK Workbench

Third-Party Toolkits

The following toolkits were updated:

Boost 1.59
CTK b721b7ca
Poco 1.6.1

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

VMTK (vtk6 branch, 90e0233)

Deprecated Functionality

The documentation contains a detailed list of deprecated functionality.

Major changes ahead

We are working on the migration of MITK to some up-to-date third-party toolkit versions, in particular ITK 4.9, VTK 7, and Qt 5.6.
As Qt 5.6 is the first LTS release since Qt 4.8 and has breaking changes compared to Qt 5.5, we will require Qt 5.6 as minimal required version. Qt 5.6 is not yet supported, though.
We will drop MSVC 2012 support.

Bugfixes

In the 7 months since the last release 180 bugs were fixed.

New features

Complete list of new features since MITK 2015.05.2:

TODO TODO TODO TODO OLD LIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TODO TODO TODO TODO

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 2016.03: