SimpleITK 1.2 Release Candidate 1

[blowekamp (Bradley Lowekamp)]

Announcement

We are pleased to announce SimpleITK 1.2 Release candidate 1.

Release Notes

• Improvements
  • New look for ReadTheDocs, along with more examples and documentation. (http://simpleitk.readthedocs.io/en/master/)
  • Support for stream reading regions from files. The ImageFileReader adds the option to specify a image region to extract while reading from disk. (https://simpleitk.readthedocs.io/en/master/Examples/AdvancedImageReading/Documentation.html)
  • Option to specify the ITK ImageIO used in the ImageFileReader class or ReadImage procedure. (https://simpleitk.readthedocs.io/en/master/Examples/ImageIOSelection/Documentation.html)
  • Multi-resolution BSpline registration by adapting the BSplineTransform resolution in the ImageRegistrationMethod. (https://simpleitk.readthedocs.io/en/master/Examples/ImageRegistrationMethodBSpline3/Documentation.html)
  • Added BSplineDecompositionImageFilter , and new BSplineTransform initialization from coefficient images.
  • Added ImageRegistrationMethod method GetMetricSamplingPercentage to get the number of samples used after each iteration.
  • Wrapping of the SLICImageFilter ( http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3596 ).
  • New ImageViewer class to support state-full parameters while providing the behavior supported by the Show procedure.
  • Added support for multi-component images to ClampImageFilter, MeanProjectionImageFilter, SumProjectionImageFilter, and the TileImageFilter.
  • Improvements to the R interface and packaging.
  • Fix 4D Image support in the Python GetArrayFromImage and GetArrayViewFromImage procedures.
  • Added Transform FlattenTransform method, to combine nested composite transforms.
  • ITKv5 compatibility enables SimpleITK to be compiled against ITKv5 betas.
  • The default and binaries are built against the proven ITK 4.13.1 release branch. Comprehensive SimpleITK testing has lead to improvements in upstream ITK. (https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK/releases/tag/v4.13.1)
  • Miscellaneous build and documentation fixes.

Python Binary Downloads

• Many binary Python wheels are available for download and testing. It is important to have the latest pip version to ensure correct wheel compatibility. To install the SimpleITK package:

pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --pre -f https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITK/releases/tag/v1.2rc1 SimpleITK