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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We are pleased to announce the SimpleITK 1.1 Release!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">### Installing SimpleITK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Complete instructions on getting started with SimpleITK including downloading binaries or building SimpleITK can be found on the SimpleITK Read the Docs web page (http://simpleitk.readthedocs.io/en/release/Documentation/docs/source/installation.html).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Python Binary Downloads<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> - Python binary wheels are available for download. It is important to have the latest version of pip for correct wheel compatibility and installation. To install the latest SimpleITK package form PyPI:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> python -m pip install --upgrade pip<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> python -m pip install SimpleITK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> - Many Conda packages have been upload to Anaconda Cloud on the `SimpleITK` channel. These can be installed with:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> conda install -c simpleitk simpleitk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- A complete available set of compiled binaries, including select CSharp and Java distributions, along with source and data tar-balls are available on Source Forge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/simpleitk/files/SimpleITK/1.1.0/).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">## Release Notes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Improvements:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Enabled 4D Images for IO, ExtractImageFilter, and output of JoinSeriesImageFilter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Enabled MINC IO by default.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- New Filters: `ObjectnessMeasuresImageFiler` (Frangi's vesselness), `IterativeInverseDisplacementFieldImageFilter`, `UnsharpMaskImageFilter`, and `RoundImageFilter`.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Added LBFGS2 optimizer to ImageRegistrationMethod.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Improved Show search path for FIJI now includes home directories.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Improved ITK Modular awareness, including ImageIOs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Superbuild update PCRE 8.40, SWIG 3.0.12, ITK 4.13.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Many bug fixes and a couple segmentation fault issues addressed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- The build system is better and more robust then ever! Many new improvements and features!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Migrating examples, miscellaneous documentation and Wiki to Read the Docs: http://simpleitk.readthedocs.io/en/master/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Improved reading and writing of 64-bit integer images across platforms (except python 2.7 on Windows).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Added optional wrapping of the `CoherenceEnahancingDiffusionImageFilter` (not enabled in binary distributions).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Added and improved examples related to DICOM reading, writing and manipulating the meta-data dictionary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">API Changes: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> - Added `ImageFileReader::ReadImageInformation`.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> - This adds support to read meta-data from any supported image file format with any dimension without reading the bulk pixel data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Added `ImageReaderBase::GetRegisteredImageIOs` method to obtain list of loaded ITK ImageIO modules.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Added `Version::ITKModulesEnabled` method to obtain a list of ITK enabled modules when SimpleITK was built.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Added `BinaryImageToLabelMap::GetNumberOfObjects`.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Added optional MaskImage input to `ConnectedComponentImageFilter`.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Added `SignedMaurerDistanceMapImageFilter::BackgroundValue` paramater.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- `WarpImageFilter` now uses named inputs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Convolution filters use named inputs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Added optional OrientedBoundingBox to `LabelShapeStatisticsImageFilter`.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Added missing features to `RelabelComponentImageFilter` including `SortByObjectSize` parameter and `NumberOfObjects`, `SizeOfObjectsInPhysicalUnits` measurements.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Added `LabelStatisticsImageFilter::GetRegion`.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Added MetaDataDictionaries to the `ImageSeriesReader`.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Compatibility:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- `DiscreteGaussianImageFilter`, `SmoothingRecursiveGaussianImageFilter` now optionally take a vector argument for variance and sigma respectfully.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> - In Python the procedural methods, `DiscreteGaussian` and `SmoothingRecursiveGaussian` may not work with named arguments due to limitation with SWIG and overloaded functions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- `N4BiasFiledCorrectionImageFilter` now only takes uint8 pixel types for mask image input.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Enjoy!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Bradley Lowekamp<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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