Difference between revisions of "MITK ReleaseNotes 2016.11"

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MITK ReleaseNotes 2016.03

This is the 2016.11 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 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 (completely rewritten)
View Navigator
Screenshot Maker
Movie Maker
Registration (MatchPoint)
experimental Multi-label segmentation
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.

Why isn't there an installer for macOS anymore?

Unfortunately Qt 5.6+ seems to be incompatible with classic VTK rendering on macOS under certain conditions. We recommend to use MITK 2016.03 on this platform instead.

You're still able to build and execute MITK on macOS, though. You should switch off MITK_USE_Qt5_WebEngine in CMake then. The help system and the image statistics plugin aren't available in this mode, but the rendering is working as expected.

How to get it?

Please have a look at the download page.

Highlights of 2016.11 release

Build System

Qt 5.6 and 5.7.1 are supported. Version 5.8 is not yet supported and support for versions below 5.6 was dropped completely.
CMake 3.5 is the minimum required version now
Minimum required compiler versions:
- GNU 4.9
- Clang 3.4
- AppleClang 5.0
- MSVC 2013 Update 5

Better support of mirrored and oblique images

Very special thanks go to Miklos Espak from UCL, who contributed awesome fixes for our geometry system. If you had trouble with the display of your images in the past, definitely give MITK 2016-11 a try!

Changed API

mitk::PlaneGeometry
- InitializeStandardPlane() methods have an additional bool parameter "top".
mitk::SlicedGeometry3D
- InitializeEvenlySpaced() methods don't have the parameter "flipped" anymore
- Pass a left-handed or right-handed PlaneGeometry instead

New Features

We integrated sophisticated tools for image registration based on MatchPoint
Experimental plugins for creating multi-label segmentations
The image cropper plugin was completely rewritten to be more user-friendly
The image statistics functionailities were overhauled

Third-Party Toolkits

The following toolkits were updated:

Boost 1.60
CTK 9440d3c9
DCMTK 3.6.1_20160216
GDCM 2.6.3
HDF5 1.8.17
OpenCV 2.4.13.2

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

MatchPoint rev1610

Deprecated Functionality

The documentation contains a detailed list of deprecated functionality.

Bugfixes

In the 10 months since the last release approx. 250 bugs were fixed.

Known Issues

Rendering on macOS glitches if MITK_USE_Qt5_WebEngine is switched on and any help page or the image statistics plugin is open at the same time as the rendering windows.

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

List of all contributors

We want to thank all developers who contributed to the MITK 2016.11 release:

Alexander Kuznetsov
Alfred Franz
Amir Kalali
Andre Klein
Andreas Fetzer
Aurélien Labrosse
Caspar Goch
Christoph Kolb
Clemens Hentschke
Daniel Maleike
Dominique Cheray
Eric Heim
Esther Stenau
Fabian Isensee
Jan Hering
Janek Gröhl
Jasmin Metzger
Jens Petersen
Jonas Cordes
Lanlan Zhang
Laura Most
Markus Engel
Martin Hettich
Matt Clarkson
Matthias Eisenmann
Mia Makosch
Michael Goetz
Mikhail Pukhlikov
Miklos Espak (see Better support of mirrored and oblique images above)
Nils Gaehlert
Patrick Klinowski
Peter Neher
Ralf Floca
Sandy Engelhardt
Sarina Thomas
Sebastian Wirkert
Stefan Dinkelacker
Taylor Braun-Jones
Tobias Norajitra
Jakob Wasserthal

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 === Better support of mirrored and oblique images ===
-Very special thanks go to Miklos Espak from UCL, who contributed awesome fixes for our geometry system. If you had trouble with the display of your images in the past, definitely give MITK 2016-11 a try!
+Very special thanks go to '''Miklos Espak''' from UCL, who contributed awesome fixes for our geometry system. If you had trouble with the display of your images in the past, definitely give MITK 2016-11 a try!
 === Changed API ===