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ij-plugins Toolkit Changelog

Version 2.3.0

This release contains mostly change to API:

  • Root package renamed from net.sf.ij_plugins to ij_plugins.toolkit [#14]

Version 2.2.0

Plugin User Visible

  • Add branding to plugin dialogs enhancement #6
  • Add help button to SRG Tool dialog #8
  • "Auto Clip 3D" ClassNotFoundException #10
  • Prefix all plugins added to "Help > About Plugins" with "About: " #11
  • Constant capitalization of plugin names bug #12

API Changes

  • Remove duplicate implementation of Progress classes: in net.sf.ij_plugins.util.progress and net.sf.ij_plugins.ui.progress #16
  • Use 'master" branch for development and 'release' branch for stable releases #9

Documentation Enhancements

  • Move plugin Help from old website to wiki in this project #5
  • Update ReadMe with links to Wiki instead the old web page #7
  • Redirect old website to this Wiki #13
  • Remove deprecated references to old SourceForge project #15

Version 2.1.2

  • Support Scala 2.13

Version 2.1.1

  • Minor API implementation correction to fix issue #4: ProgressReporter.addProgressListener() cannot be used in Scala 2.12.

Version 2.0 and 2.1

  • Source code moved to GitHub ij-plugins/ijp-toolkit
  • New SBT-based build system and new packaging approach.
  • Coherence Enhancing Diffusion was rewritten and significantly improved. The new algorithm is over 7 times faster (on a quad-core processor).
  • Seeded Region Growing Tool: add button to create seed image.
  • MetaImage Reader/Writer respect Origin tag, mapped into calibration x.y.z origin.
  • MetaImage Reader - does not break on unknown tags, just ignores them.
  • Removed deprecated DialogInfo and dependency in beanutil library.
  • ijp-toolkit2 merged back into ijp-toolkit.

Version 1.9.1

This release is intended to correct 1.9.0 issue with missing classes in binary distribution. There are also some small improvements in JavaDocs.

Bug fix:

  • Issue #31 - Some plugins in 1.9.0 do not work - ClassNotFoundException

Version 1.9.0

New:

  • Plugin to apply k-means clustering to another image

Developer visible:

  • Dependent libraries updated to latest "full" release versions.

Requirements:

  • Java 7 or better.

Version 1.8.0

New:

  • Plugin to convert L*a*b* stack to XYZ color space
  • Plugin to convert XYZ stack to L*a*b* color space

Improved:

  • Create color space stacks, like L*a*b*, have now slices labeled using band names rather than numbers

Developer visible:

  • KMeans verifies that input stack is of correct type
  • CubicSplineFunction is now part of ij-plugins toolkit, moved from ij-VTK

Requirements:

  • Java 7 or better.

Version 1.7.1

Improvements:

  • Update ReadMe file that got quite out od date
  • Fast filters modified to reproduce content of the image that is outside of the ROI to follow ImageJ convention.

Requirements:

  • Java 7 or better.

Version 1.7.0

New:

  • k-means plugin now supports segmentation of 3D images.

Developer visible:

  • k-means implementation renamed to KMeans2D. New class KMeans3D.

Requirements:

  • Java 7 or better.

Version 1.6.1

New:

  • Plugins > Color > Measure Bands - measures color images and stacks writing results in a single row, rather than a separate row for each band or slice. Works on RGB images or gray level stacks.

Improvements:

  • Stacks created by RGB to CIE L*a*b* and RGB to XYZ converters now have correct labels for each slice (name of the color band).
  • Updated dependent libraries to recent versions.
  • Add support for virtual stack to metaimage IO, based on patch provided by Eric Nodwell.
  • Add help button to plugin options dialog
    • Maximum Entropy Multi-Threshold plugin
    • k-means Clustering plugin
    • Region Growing plugin

Developer visible:

  • Some utility methods added to VectorProcessor and ColorProcessorUtils.
  • Support for color space conversions with custom white point

Version 1.6.0

New:

  • Export as STL plugin allows saving image surfaces are a STL mesh data.
  • MetaImage reader now supports multi-channel 3D images.

Improvements:

  • Correct cluster distance measure in k-means.
  • Order of plugin changed in Filter menu.
  • Improved error reporting for SRG.
  • MetaImage writer ask if data should be saved to a single file.
  • 3D filters maintain image calibration (dilate, erode, median, clip).
  • Rename AutoClipVolume to AutoCropVolume.

Developer visible:

  • SRG Tools is now using standard overlays provided in newer versions of ImageJ.
  • Signature of MiDecoder.open changed to support multi-channel MetaImage files.
  • Improvements to JavaDoc.
  • Separate distribution building Ant script into separate file for simpler dependency.

Version 1.5.2

Improved:

  • RFE-3095953: MetaImage writer saved images in a single file (no header/raw separation)

Bug fixes:

  • Bug-3097792: VTK Reader can handle images that spaces at the end of header lines.

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Version 1.4.2

New:

  • SRG: Add action icons.
  • SRG: Send/load regions from ROI Manager.

Improved:

Developer visible:

  • Add KMeans.closestCluster(final float[] x) to enable using result to cluster new image.

Version 1.4.1

New:

  • SRG: Support for seeded region growing segmentation of 3D images.

Improved:

  • SRG: Support non-consecutive seed numbers.
  • SRG: Option to process single or all slices in the image (2D mode).
  • SRG: Copy lookup table (LUT) from the seed image to the output segmented image.

Change:

  • SRG API: seeds are specified as an image rather than lists of points.

Bug fixes:

  • Set pixels plugin: correct behavior with stacks.

Developer visible:

  • Use SVNAnt 1.3 for release number generation.

Version 1.4.0

Change:

  • Introduces incompatibility in SRG.setPoints(): seeds are set as an image instead of a list of points.

Version 1.3.0

New:

  • Seeder Region Growing (SRG) plugin.

Improved:

  • Fast Median Filter plugin - added preview to options dialog.

Bug fixes:

  • BUG-2687379: Division by zero in entropy threshold progress reporting. Pointed by Gabriel Landini.
  • Correct potential numeric computation problem in Maximum Entropy Threshold pointed by Wilhelm Burger. EPSILON is made larger to avoid infinite result when dividing by values close to EPSILON.
  • BUG-2690849: Multiband Difference Edge and Multiband Gradient Edge plugins were missing.

Other:

  • Project code moved to Java 1.6.
  • API for display of multi color overlays (OverlayCanvas)
  • I/O Utilities API (IOUtils)

Version 1.2.1

Improvements:

  • Maximum Entropy Threshold plugin now supports 16 bit images.
  • Several improvements to SRG algorithm (available through API).

Bug fixes:

  • BUG-2037287: VectorProcessor: iterators bugs. Results in corrections to plugins that used VectorProcessor, like k-means and vector edge detector.

Version 1.2

Improvements:

  • sRGB <-> XYZ <-> CIE L*a*b* conversion modified to use approach presented at http://www.brucelindbloom.com/.
  • Improvements to maximum entropy threshold plugins.

Bug fixes:

  • BUG-1503298: MetaImage Reader did not support some of MetaImage tags.
  • BUG-1812587: FastMedian Exception for even kernel size.
  • BUG-1881444: k-means macro always showed animations.

Version 1.1.1

Bug fixes:

  • BUG-1594780: Correct reading of COLOR_SCALARS: use GRAY8 when nValue==1, use RGB when nValue==3.

Improvements:

  • Fast Median Filter Plugin: add support for RGB images.

Version 1.1

Bug fixes:

  • Correct spelling of PeronaMalikAnisotropicDiffusion* classes.

Improvements:

  • VectorProcessor improvements.

  • ProgressReporter - Change method names for access and update of current progress.

  • Remove dependency on L2FProf library, use DialogUtils instead.

  • Speedup computation of maximum entropy multi threshold by caching interval entropy computation (about 30x speedup for 3-threshold).

  • VTKEncoder/Decoder - Add support for reading/writing RGB images in VTK format. Contributed by keesh on 2006-10-22.

New:

  • DialogUtil: utilities for simplifying creation of property editor dialogs.

  • AbstractAnisotropicDiffusion*: Abstract base classes to simplify creation of anisotropic diffusion filters and plugins.

  • SRAD - Spackle Reducing Anisotropic Diffusion

  • RGB to YCbCr color space conversion.

  • IJDebug utility for logging only when IJ.debugMode is on.

Version 1.0

  • Jar file renamed from 'ij-plugins-toolkit.jar' to 'ij-plugins_toolkit.jar', So it can be recognized bu ImageJ plugin discovery (presence of '_' in file name needed.

  • New source code layout. 'Plugins' and 'Toolkit' subdirectories depreciated, all source moved to root 'src' directory. Plugins distributed in a single JAR: ''ij-plugins_toolkit.jar' (RFE-1208248).

  • 'Toolkit/src' code moved to 'src'.

  • Image Quilting plugin moved to main source directory ('src').

  • 3D IO plugins moved to main source directory ('src').

Changes - 3D Toolkit

Version *

  • VTK Filters moved to module ij-VTK

Version 0.3.x

  • VTK Filters - Optimize loading of dynamic VTK libraries.

Version 0.3 - New features + some bug fix

New & improved:

  • Set of plugins for direct access to native VTK 3D filters: anisotropic diffusion, Laplacian, median, erosion, dilation.
  • Connected threshold growing - improved GUI, support for 16 bit images
  • 3D Toolkit plugins - better error detection
  • Number of related API extensions
  • ij.jar updated to 1.29x
  • Cleaner build scripts.

Bug fixes:

  • Corrected problems with voxel calibration in VTK and MetaImage I/O.

Version 0.2.x - bug fix release

  • ij.jar (ImageJ v.1.28u binaries) added to source distribution. This way no additional libraries are needed to build from source.

Version 0.2.1 - bug fix release

  • VTK Writer: Removed bug introduced in v.0.2 - VTK was unable to read images generated by vtkEncoder - there was no space separating a tag and its value in image header.

  • VTK Reader was not aware of tags CELL_DATA and COLOR_SCALARS.

Version 0.2

New plugins added:

  • VTK Reader

  • MetaImage Reader

  • MetaImage Writer