ITK/Release 4.10

New Features

---

• Wrapping improvements

• • ITK_USE_64BITS_IDS supported on Windows
  • Faster builds (CastXML calls and build targets reduced by half)
  • Faster runtime loading and smaller binary size due to hidden symbol visibility
  • Wrapping with BUILD_SHARED_LIBS disabled is supported
  • Do not link to libpython when possible
  • Filter types do not need to be specified when “Input=inputImage” is specified in the constructor
  • Improved wrapping class coverage
  • Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 Supported
  • GCC 6.1 supported

• New Remote Module
  • TwoProjectionRegistration
    • 2D-3D registration designed for radiotherapy
    • http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3245

• Core Improvements
  • Data and build tool downloads now over HTTPS
  • Extended constexpr usage with ITK_CONSTEXPR and ITKCONSTEXPR_FUNC macros
  • ITK_USE_64BITS_IDS, required to process 4GB+ images on Windows, now enabled by default
  • VNL updated and modernized
  • CMake configuration major modernization
  • vcl has been removed in favor of the standard libraries
  • vnl_math_ function avoided in favor of std:: and itk::Math
  • VNL had suppressed integer data conversion warnings on Visual Studio (C4257); this suppression has been removed and all warnings addressed
  • Various improvements for building a module externally against an ITK build tree
  • CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE is enabled by default
  • Improved EXERCISE_BASIC_OBJECT_METHODS testing macro

• Filtering Improvements
  • RGB pixel support added to itk::ImageToVTKImageFilter
  • itk::Box* filters moved out of the Review module
  • itk::GaussianDerivativeOperator moved out of the Review module
  • MaskLabel is deprecated in N4BiasFieldCorrectionFilter in favor any non-zero pixel

• Registration Improvements
  • Fixed and moving masks added to the v4 registration methods

• Documentation Improvements
  • Updates to the Software Guide, Doxygen, Wiki and Sphinx Examples
  • New examples on to convert between ITK and VTK
  • New example on how to perform vector image registration
  • The ITK Software Guide describes how to add a third-party dependency to a module

• Third Party Library Updates
  • pygccxml updated to v1.7.3
  • GDCM updated to the release branch latest
  • VNL updated to latest upstream
  • MINC updated to the latest upstream
  • SWIG updated to v3.0.8
  • PCRE update to v8.38