Merge pull request #333 from thewtex/release-notes

Import release notes

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Documentation/Dashboard.md → Documentation/Maintenance/Dashboard.md

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 [ITK discussion]: https://discourse.itk.org/
 
-[Git]: http://git-scm.com
+[Git]: http://git-scm.com

Documentation/ReleaseNotes/1.8.md

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+ITK Release 1.8
+===============
+
+Support for BMP
+===============
+
+MetaIO supports zlib compression
+================================
+
+IO support for itkMeshSpatialObject via MetaIO
+==============================================
+
+IO support for “Nearly Raw Raster Data” image format (Nrrd)
+===========================================================
+
+New itkTreeContainer and TreeIterators classes
+==============================================
+
+SpatialObjects supports TreeContainer
+=====================================
+
+New GaussianSpatialObject
+=========================
+
+Many new examples
+=================
+
+Java wrapping
+=============
+
+This release covers the period January 22, 2004 through August 8, 2004
+
+New Classes in this Release
+---------------------------
+
+    Code/Algorithms/itkDeformableSimplexMesh3DBalloonForceFilter
+    Code/Algorithms/itkDeformableSimplexMesh3DFilter
+    Code/Algorithms/itkHistogramAlgorithmBase
+    Code/Algorithms/itkImagePCADecompositionCalculator
+    Code/Algorithms/itkIsolatedWatershedImageFilter
+    Code/Algorithms/itkLevelSetMotionRegistrationFilter
+    Code/Algorithms/itkLevelSetMotionRegistrationFunction
+    Code/Algorithms/itkMatchCardinalityImageToImageMetric
+    Code/Algorithms/itkOtsuMultipleThresholdsCalculator
+    Code/Algorithms/itkOtsuThresholdImageFilter
+    Code/Algorithms/itkPointSetToSpatialObjectDemonsRegistration
+    Code/Algorithms/itkRegularSphereMeshSource
+    Code/Algorithms/itkSTAPLEImageFilter
+    Code/Algorithms/itkSymmetricForcesDemonsRegistrationFilter
+    Code/Algorithms/itkSymmetricForcesDemonsRegistrationFunction
+
+    Code/BasicFilters/itkAbsoluteValueDifferenceImageFilter
+    Code/BasicFilters/itkBoundedReciprocalImageFilter
+    Code/BasicFilters/itkDeformationFieldSource
+    Code/BasicFilters/itkGrayscaleGrindPeakImageFilter
+    Code/BasicFilters/itkInverseDeformationFieldImageFilter
+    Code/BasicFilters/itkIterativeInverseDeformationFieldImageFilter
+    Code/BasicFilters/itkLabelStatisticsImageFilter
+    Code/BasicFilters/itkLaplacianSharpeningImageFilter
+    Code/BasicFilters/itkNaryMaximumImageFilter
+    Code/BasicFilters/itkNotImageFilter
+    Code/BasicFilters/itkRGBToLuminanceImageFilter
+    Code/BasicFilters/itkSimplexMeshAdaptTopologyFilter
+    Code/BasicFilters/itkSimplexMeshToTriangleMeshFilter
+    Code/BasicFilters/itkThresholdLabelerImageFilter
+    Code/BasicFilters/itkTileImageFilter
+    Code/BasicFilters/itkTriangleMeshToSimplexMeshFilter
+    Code/BasicFilters/itkVectorRescaleIntensityImageFilter
+    Code/BasicFilters/itkWarpVectorImageFilter
+    Code/BasicFilters/itkWeightedAddImageFilter
+
+    Code/Common/itkAutoPointerDataObjectDecorator
+    Code/Common/itkBinaryThresholdSpatialFunction
+    Code/Common/itkCenteredEuler3DTransform
+    Code/Common/itkCenteredVersorTransformInitializer
+    Code/Common/itkChildTreeIterator
+    Code/Common/itkDataObjectDecorator
+    Code/Common/itkInOrderTreeIterator
+    Code/Common/itkLeafTreeIterator
+    Code/Common/itkLevelOrderTreeIterator
+    Code/Common/itkPostOrderTreeIterator
+    Code/Common/itkPreOrderTreeIterator
+    Code/Common/itkRGBToLuminanceImageAdaptor
+    Code/Common/itkRootTreeIterator
+    Code/Common/itkSimpleDataObjectDecorator
+    Code/Common/itkSimplexMe
+    Code/Common/itkSimplexMesh
+    Code/Common/itkSimplexMeshGeometry
+    Code/Common/itkTreeChangeEvent
+    Code/Common/itkTreeContainer
+    Code/Common/itkTreeContainerBase
+    Code/Common/itkTreeIteratorBase
+    Code/Common/itkTreeIteratorClone
+    Code/Common/itkTreeNode
+    Code/Common/itkWindowedSincInterpolateImageFunction
+
+    Code/IO/itkBMPImageIO
+    Code/IO/itkBMPImageIOFactory
+    Code/IO/itkGDCMImageIO
+    Code/IO/itkGDCMSeriesFileNames
+    Code/IO/itkImageIORegion
+    Code/IO/itkNrrdImageIO
+    Code/IO/itkNrrdImageIOFactory
+
+    Code/Numerics/itkLBFGSBOptimizer
+
+    Code/Numerics/Statistics/itkGreyLevelCooccurrenceMatrixTextureCoefficientsCalculator
+    Code/Numerics/Statistics/itkImageToCooccurrenceListAdaptor
+    Code/Numerics/Statistics/itkMaskedScalarImageToGreyLevelCooccurrenceMatrixGenerator
+    Code/Numerics/Statistics/itkScalarImageTextureCalculator
+    Code/Numerics/Statistics/itkScalarImageToGreyLevelCooccurrenceMatrixGenerator
+
+    Code/SpatialObject/itkAffineGeometryFrame
+    Code/SpatialObject/itkGaussianSpatialObject
+    Code/SpatialObject/itkImageMaskSpatialObject
+    Code/SpatialObject/itkMetaEvent
+    Code/SpatialObject/itkMetaGaussianConverter
+    Code/SpatialObject/itkMetaMeshConverter
+    Code/SpatialObject/itkSpatialObjectTreeContainer
+    Code/SpatialObject/itkSpatialObjectTreeNode
+
+New Tests in this Release
+-------------------------
+
+    Testing/Code/Common/itkBinaryThresholdSpatialFunctionTest
+    Testing/Code/Common/itkCenteredTransformInitializerTest
+    Testing/Code/Common/itkCenteredVersorTransformInitializerTest
+    Testing/Code/Common/itkDecoratorTest
+    Testing/Code/Common/itkImageTest
+    Testing/Code/Common/itkPolygonCellTest
+    Testing/Code/Common/itkSimplexMeshTest
+    Testing/Code/Common/itkTreeContainerTest
+    Testing/Code/Common/itkTreeContainerTest2
+    Testing/Code/Common/itkVersorTransformTest
+    Testing/Code/Common/itkWindowedSincInterpolateImageFunctionTest
+
+    Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkAbsoluteValueDifferenceImageFilterTest
+    Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkBasicFiltersTests2
+    Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkBinaryThresholdImageFilterTest2
+    Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkDeformationFieldSourceTest
+    Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkInverseDeformationFieldImageFilterTest
+    Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkIterativeInverseDeformationFieldImageFilterTest
+    Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkNaryMaximumImageFilterTest
+    Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkRemoveBoundaryObjectsTest
+    Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkRemoveBoundaryObjectsTest2
+    Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkRGBToLuminanceImageFilterAndAdaptorTest
+    Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkSimplexMeshAdaptTopologyFilterTest
+    Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkSimplexMeshToTriangleMeshFilterTest
+    Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkThresholdLabelerImageFilterTest
+    Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkTileImageFilterTest
+    Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkTriangleMeshToSimplexMeshFilter2Test
+    Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkTriangleMeshToSimplexMeshFilterTest
+    Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkVectorRescaleIntensityImageFilterTest
+    Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkWarpVectorImageFilterTest
+    Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkWeightedAddImageFilterTest
+
+    Testing/Code/IO/itkBMPImageIOTest
+    Testing/Code/IO/itkGDCMImageIOTest
+    Testing/Code/IO/itkGDCMSeriesReadImageWrite
+    Testing/Code/IO/itkMeshSpatialObjectIOTest
+    Testing/Code/IO/itkNrrdImageIOTest
+    Testing/Code/IO/testMetaMe
+
+    Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkCurvatureFlowTestPython2.py
+    Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkDeformableSimplexMesh3DBalloonForceFilterTest
+    Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkDeformableSimplexMesh3DFilterTest
+    Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkFilterWatcher
+    Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkGradientDifferenceImageToImageMetricTest
+    Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkImagePCADecompositionCalculatorTest
+    Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkIsolatedWatershedImageFilterTest
+    Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkOtsuMultipleThresholdsCalculatorTest
+    Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkOtsuThresholdImageFilterTest
+    Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkPointSetToSpatialObjectDemonsRegistrationTest
+    Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkRayCastInterpolateImageFunctionTest
+    Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkRegularSphereMeshSourceTest
+    Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkSTAPLEImageFilterTest
+    Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkSymmetricForcesDemonsRegistrationFilterTest
+
+    Testing/Code/Numerics/itkLBFGSBOptimizerTest
+    Testing/Code/Numerics/Statistics/itkGreyLevelCooccurrenceMatrixTextureCoefficientsCalculatorTest
+    Testing/Code/Numerics/Statistics/itkImageToCooccurrenceListAdaptorTest
+    Testing/Code/Numerics/Statistics/itkMaskedScalarImageToGreyLevelCooccurrenceMatrixGeneratorTest
+    Testing/Code/Numerics/Statistics/itkScalarImageTextureCalculatorTest
+    Testing/Code/Numerics/Statistics/itkScalarImageToGreyLevelCooccurrenceMatrixGeneratorTest
+
+    Testing/Code/SpatialObject/itkAffineGeometryFrameTest
+    Testing/Code/SpatialObject/itkGaussianSpatialObjectTest
+    Testing/Code/SpatialObject/itkImageMaskSpatialObjectTest
+    Testing/Code/SpatialObject/itkSpatialObjectTreeContainerTest
+
+New Examples in this Release
+----------------------------
+
+    Examples/DataRepresentation/Image/ImageToArray.py
+    Examples/DataRepresentation/Mesh/ImageToPointSet
+    Examples/DataRepresentation/Mesh/MeshPolyLine
+    Examples/DataRepresentation/Path/CMakeLists.txt
+    Examples/DataRepresentation/Path/PolyLineParametricPath1
+
+    Examples/Filtering/BinaryDilateImageFilter.java
+    Examples/Filtering/BinaryDilateImageFilter.py
+    Examples/Filtering/BinaryDilateImageFilter.tcl
+    Examples/Filtering/BinaryErodeImageFilter.java
+    Examples/Filtering/BinaryErodeImageFilter.py
+    Examples/Filtering/BinaryErodeImageFilter.tcl
+    Examples/Filtering/BinaryThresholdImageFilter.java
+    Examples/Filtering/BinaryThresholdImageFilter.tcl
+    Examples/Filtering/CannyEdgeDetectionImageFilter.java
+    Examples/Filtering/CannyEdgeDetectionImageFilter.py
+    Examples/Filtering/CannyEdgeDetectionImageFilter.tcl
+    Examples/Filtering/CastImageFilter.java
+    Examples/Filtering/CastImageFilter.py
+    Examples/Filtering/CastImageFilter.tcl
+    Examples/Filtering/CurvatureAnisotropicDiffusionImageFilter.java
+    Examples/Filtering/CurvatureFlowImageFilter.java
+    Examples/Filtering/DigitallyReconstructedRadiograph1
+    Examples/Filtering/GradientAnisotropicDiffusionImageFilter.java
+    Examples/Filtering/GrayscaleDilateImageFilter.py
+    Examples/Filtering/GrayscaleErodeImageFilter.py
+    Examples/Filtering/LaplacianImageFilter.py
+    Examples/Filtering/LaplacianRecursiveGaussianImageFilter1
+    Examples/Filtering/LaplacianRecursiveGaussianImageFilter2
+    Examples/Filtering/LaplacianSharpeningImageFilter
+    Examples/Filtering/MeanImageFilter.java
+    Examples/Filtering/MedianImageFilter.java
+    Examples/Filtering/MedianImageFilter.tcl
+    Examples/Filtering/RGBToGrayscale
+    Examples/Filtering/ScaleSpaceGenerator2D
+    Examples/Filtering/SigmoidImageFilter.java
+    Examples/Filtering/SigmoidImageFilter.tcl
+    Examples/Filtering/ThresholdImageFilter.java
+    Examples/Filtering/ThresholdImageFilter.tcl
+    Examples/Filtering/VectorIndexSelection
+    Examples/Filtering/WarpImageFilter1
+
+    Examples/IO/DicomPrintPatientInformation
+    Examples/IO/DicomSeriesReadImageWrite2
+    Examples/IO/VectorImageReadWrite
+
+    Examples/Numerics/FourierDescriptors1
+
+    Examples/Registration/BSplineWarping1
+    Examples/Registration/DeformableRegistration3
+    Examples/Registration/DeformableRegistration4
+    Examples/Registration/DeformableRegistration5
+    Examples/Registration/DeformableRegistration6
+    Examples/Registration/DeformationFieldInitialization
+    Examples/Registration/ImageRegistration10
+    Examples/Registration/ImageRegistration11
+    Examples/Registration/ImageRegistration12
+    Examples/Registration/ImageRegistration13
+    Examples/Registration/ImageRegistration14
+    Examples/Registration/ImageRegistration4.py
+    Examples/Registration/LandmarkWarping2
+    Examples/Registration/MeanSquaresImageMetric1
+    Examples/Registration/RegistrationExamples4
+    Examples/Registration/RegistrationExamples5
+    Examples/Registration/RegistrationExamples6
+    Examples/Registration/RegistrationExamples7
+
+    Examples/Statistics/ImageEntropy1
+    Examples/Statistics/ImageMutualInformation1
+
+    Examples/Visualization/CannyEdgeDetectionImageFilterConnectVTKITK.tcl
+
+New Utilities in this Release
+-----------------------------
+
+    Utilities/MetaIO/metaEvent
+    Utilities/MetaIO/metaGaussian
+    Utilities/MetaIO/metaMe
+    Utilities/MetaIO/metaMesh
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/000-README.txt
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/754
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/accessors
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/array
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/arraysNrrd
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/axis
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/biffbiff
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/CMakeLists.txt
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/comment
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/defaultsNrrd
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/dio
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/encoding
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/encodingAscii
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/encodingBzip2
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/encodingGzip
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/encodingHex
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/encodingRaw
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/endianAir
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/endianNrrd
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/enum
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/enumsNrrd
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/format
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/formatEPS
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/formatNRRD
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/formatPNG
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/formatPNM
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/formatText
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/formatVTK
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/gzio
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/keyvalue
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/methodsNrrd
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/miscAir
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/mop
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/NrrdIO
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/NrrdIO_Srcs.txt
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/parseAir
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/parseNrrd
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/preamble
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/pre-GNUmakefile
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/privateAir
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/privateNrrd
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/qnanhibit
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/read
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/reorder
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/sampleIO
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/sane
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/simple
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/string
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/teem32bit
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/teemDio
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/teemEndian
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/teemPng
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/teemQnanhibit
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/unteem.pl
+    Utilities/NrrdIO/write