SimpleITK Release v0.7.0

Announcement

We are pleased to announce the release of SimpleITK 0.7.0!

The release’s binary built distributions are available for many languages and platforms. They are available for download:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/simpleitk/files/SimpleITK/0.7.0/

There are numerous binaries available for download for Python via setuptools’ easy_install. Additionally, we have select binary distributions for C# and Java. Information on downloading and getting started can be found here:

http://www.itk.org/Wiki/SimpleITK/GettingStarted#Downloading_the_binaries

Notable improvement:

• Based on ITK 4.4.2 with enhanced performance for operators

• New filters including: Clamp, PatchedBasedDenoising, ScalarChanAndVese, BitwiseNot

• Support for 64-bit integer Pixels ( not enable with windows VS9, nor packaged )

• Add Debug flag for filters to print ITK filter

• Bug fixes.

• And Many more!

CSharp:

• Additional image overloaded operators

Doxygen for this release can be found here: http://itk.org/SimpleITKDoxygen07/html/pages.html

Sub-task

• SIMPLEITK-359 - Look into integration of ExternalData.cmake

Bug

• SIMPLEITK-210 - Use printable types for ToString methods

• SIMPLEITK-371 - SetPixel test is failing on windows in debug mode

• SIMPLEITK-387 - CSharp version is invalid causing compilation error.

• SIMPLEITK-398 - CSharp is missing the Image::GetBufferAs… methods

• SIMPLEITK-401 - Verify TR1 error checking for logic

• SIMPLEITK-405 - Fix some dashboard warnings

• SIMPLEITK-406 - Can not convert image >4GB to numpy array

• SIMPLEITK-408 - Swig build error on windows64 when ITK is not installed, due to excessive path length.

• SIMPLEITK-417 - LabelStatisticsImageFilter does not reset internal measurements for each execution.

Improvement

• SIMPLEITK-389 - Overload image operators for C# wrappers

• SIMPLEITK-390 - Add BitwiseNot functor filter

• SIMPLEITK-392 - Improve scanning time of JSON files.

• SIMPLEITK-399 - Update to ITK patch release 4.3.2

• SIMPLEITK-400 - Update towards ITK 4.4

• SIMPLEITK-409 - There is an unneeded dependency of many of the BasicFilter libraries on the previous on. This should be removed.

New Feature

• SIMPLEITK-330 - Add PatchBaseDenoising filter

• SIMPLEITK-411 - Add new json field type for enums.

• SIMPLEITK-415 - Add ClampImageFilter

Task

• SIMPLEITK-352 - Have separate versions of SimpleITK doxygen for each version or tag

• SIMPLEITK-355 - Add CMake file to use Midas and MD5 files for data.

• SIMPLEITK-356 - Migrate the data from the data submodule to the Midas md5 download system.

• SIMPLEITK-366 - System ITK with Superbuild.

• SIMPLEITK-367 - Move WIki pages to version directories.

• SIMPLEITK-375 - Update SimpleITK Wiki and FAQ, including compiler support and FAQ entries.

• SIMPLEITK-407 - Update the style of SWIG and PCRE.

• SIMPLEITK-412 - Fix dashboard issues

• SIMPLEITK-416 - Update Source Tarball script for midas data.

• SIMPLEITK-418 - The size of the monolithic test driver is too big on windows. This should be broken up