MITK ReleaseNotes 2018.04
UPDATE March 2019: new bugfix release, please also look at MITK 2018.04.2
This is the 2018.04 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, Ubuntu 16.04 (and later), as well as macOS High Sierra (and later) are provided, which contain the MITK Workbench application. In addition to image loading/saving and level windowing, the following plugins are included:
- Interactive Segmentation
- Registration (MatchPoint)
- Statistics
- Measurement
- Volume Visualization
- Image Cropper
- Remeshing
- Pointset Interaction
- Movie Maker
- Screenshot Maker
- View Navigator
- Logging
- 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.
How to get it?
See our download page.
Highlights
Application
- Dark theme
- Improved macOS support
- Modern graphics backend based on VTK 8.1 and modern OpenGL
- Simplified Remeshing plugin
- Extended DICOM support (RTSTRUCT, RTDOSE, RTPLAN, SEG)
Development
- Qt is found fully automatic if installed in the Qt installer's default location
- New extension mechanism (see developer tutorial and Github page)
- Simplified loading of data with IO utilities (see migration guide)
- Warnings are handled as errors by default (see migration guide)
- Unified properties between base data and data node (see migration guide)
Development requirements
- CMake 3.10 or later
- Qt 5.11.1 or later
- Minimum required compiler versions
- Latest version of Visual Studio 2017
- GNU 5.4 or later recommended
- Apple LLVM 10.0 or later recommended
Third-party toolkit updates
- Boost 1.68
- CTK fc06bedc
- DCMTK 29f9de10
- DCMQI d067f81c (new)
- MatchPoint 24ef6072
- OpenCV 3.4.1
- ITK 4.13.1
- VTK 8.1
Experimental integration of SOFA and hence MITK Simulation was removed because of essential incompatibility with VTK 8.1.
Numbers
In the 23 months since the last release, around 700 tasks in our bug tracker were resolved with approximately 3900 commits.
List of recent contributors
Special thanks to all of our recent contributors since the last release:
- Alexander Kuznetsov
- Alexander Seitel
- Alfred Franz
- Amir Kalali
- Andre Klein
- Angelika Laha
- Annika Reinke
- Benjamin Mittmann
- Bertram Sabrowsky-Hirsch
- Caspar Goch
- Christoph Kolb
- Clemens Hentschke
- Daniel Maleike
- Dimitar Tsvetkov
- Dominik Waibel
- Dominique Cheray
- Eric Heim
- Esther Stenau
- Fabian Isensee
- Federico Milano
- Franz Sattler
- Hellena Hempe
- Jakob Wasserthal
- Janek Gröhl
- Jasmin Metzger
- Jens Petersen
- Jenshika Yoganathan
- Joseph Goerres
- Kim-Celine Kahl
- Laura Aguilera
- Lisa Kausch
- Marco Nolden
- Martin Hettich
- Martin Klemm
- Matt Clarkson
- Matthias Eisenmann
- Michael Goetz
- Mikhail Pukhlikov
- Miklos Espak
- Niklas Holzwarth
- Nil Goyette
- Nils Gaehlert
- Patmaa Sridharan
- Paul Jaeger
- Peter Neher
- Philipp Strubel
- Rachael House
- Ralf Floca
- Sarina Thomas
- Simon Kohl
- Stefan Dinkelacker
- Taylor Braun-Jones
- Thomas Kirchner
- Timo Wiese
- Tobias Norajitra
- Tobias Stein
- Yann Zimmermann