MeVisLab Release Notes before 4.0 (2024)

Added a new module DicomImport, which does a multi-threaded, asynchronous import of DICOM files. It replaces an old, deprecated module with the same name which called an executable for the import, which then wrote DICOM/TIFF pairs to the file system.
There is a similar module in the Public SDK by our partners at Fraunhofer MEVIS, called DirectDicomImport.
WEM modules:
- WEMSave: Didn't auto-detect the .geom file suffix.
- WEMLoad: Also recognizes upper-case file suffixes.
- WEMLoad: Enforce binary STL format if file ends on .stlb .
- WEMLoad: Could crash on loading certain .wrl (VRML) files.
- WEMSurfaceDistance: startPos and endPos were swapped.
- Fixed a thread-safety issue in WEMIsoSurface when running in background.
- WEMModify: Rotation was not correctly applied if the scale factor was 1.
- Fixed a crash in SoWEMInteract after reloading the module and then updating a connected input.
CSO modules:
See Also
US Patent Application for Apparatuses, Methods and Systems For An Interactive Proximity Display Tether With Remote Co-Play Patent Application (Application #20120079080 issued March 29, 2012)
- To make the purpose clearer, CSOConvertToImage has been renamed to CSOVoxelizeContours, and CSOConvertTo3DMask to CSOGenerateSmoothSurfaceFromSparseContours.
- The deprecated module CSOInterpolate has been removed. It just wrapped the module CSOShapedBasedInterpolation by Fraunhofer MEVIS, which still exists.
- Added a SoCSOAngleEditor module which allows to set/edit 3 points to define an angle in an image (the angle value is displayed).
- Added a CSOLabelPlacementDistanceLines module for improved label placement for distance lines.
- CSOLabelRenderer: Had a problem with a CSO (temporarily) consisting of only one seed point.
- The CSOFilter module generated CSOs and CSOGroups with ids that were immediately changed without further notification.
- Improved rendering of SoCSODistanceLineEditor when ghosting.
- Improved shadow rendering of all SoCSOEditorExtensions.
- All CSO editor modules: Change the maximum value for defaultSeedPointSize to 16.
- CSOIsoGenerator: Improved symmetry of generated contours when Interpolate contours is on.
- Fixed that CSOList::removeAll() would leak the memory used by the CSOList when undo was enabled, e.g., when done from the CSOManager with removeAllCSOsAndGroups.
View2DIsoContourShader: Changed voxel value scaling slightly, so contours correspond better to those generated with CSOIsoGenerator.
Made background and margin color of SoLUTEditor configurable.
SoView2DDrawVoxels3D: Got an autoSwitchDrawMode option that adapts the Disk* and Square* modes automatically to the current viewer orientation.
DrawVoxels3D: copyInputImage trigger field did not work correctly for Off/Clear update mode.
DicomRescale: Also modifies the PixelPaddingValue and PixelPaddingRangeLimit tags now.
Added RescaleType to the info fields of the DicomRescale module.
Allow (temporary) invalid input for AccumulateImage.
VoxelizeMarkers: Fixed that distanceMode WorldDistance, despite the name, operated in voxel space.
Added ThirdPartyInformation module to list available third-party libraries. (Actually it was already there, but not visible yet.)
Fixed the ListModules module.
Loading a CurveList with a LoadBase module will print a warning about the loaded data being a memory leak. This is a conceptual problem that will be fixed in one of the next MeVisLab versions.
Added new module CurveCreator to create a CurveList object from text data.
Implemented an isUnderMouse attribute for SoView2DRectangle in the same way as was already done for SoView2DLabel.
Added support for label drawing to SoView2DRectangle.
One can't change the global variables of the RunPythonScript module itself in executed code anymore.
The algorithm of the Radon module was re-implemented.
Added new module SoCoordinateSystem, which does smarter rendering than SoAxis.
SoDiagram2D uses the same font rendering as SoView2D now, which also allows to render any Unicode characters through Qt (with View2DEnableQtFontRendering = yes in your preferences file).
Fixed that SoView2DOverlayMPR would print error messages if the overlay got smaller than one pixel.
Histogram: Prints a warning if the mask image is used in label mode and the mask image has a float data type (which suggests it isn't a label image).
SoPostEffectMainGeometry and SoPostEffectTransparentGeometry can work on buffers (e.g. created with SoPostEffectCreateBuffer) that are smaller than the actual render size to improve performance.
DicomDeidentify: When defining special handling of private tags, private tags in a sequence were not handled correctly if the private creator tag for this tag was (only) in the same sequence (which is proper DICOM).
DicomTool, under the DICOM Send section: Fixed that the dcmSend tool mode didn't work (anymore) on Windows.
The UndoManager module didn't correctly apply the maxNumberUndoSteps when loading from a network.
The module ColorModelConverter got a new mode "Gray to RGB" and overall better handling for when the wrong number of input color channels are present.
Also renamed mode "RGB to RGB" to "Identity".
The following modules are marked as deprecated now: AngleLines2D3D, BaseBypassOp, ColorTable, ConnectedComponents, ContourManager, CSOBulgeProcessor, CSOFreehandProcessor, CSOIsoProcessor, CSOLiveWireProcessor, CSOModifyProcessor, CSOPrimitiveProcessor, CSOTransformationProcessor, DicomBrowser, DicomService, DistanceLine2D3D, DistanceTransform, Draw2D, EatDicomImport, ImportDialog, KernelFilter, LiveWire, LoG, MovieCreator, Negation, ObjectManager, OpenImage, RegionToContour, SaveImage, SoAngleLines, SoAngleToObjects, SoAsciiText, SoCake, SoDistanceLine, SoFixedFunctionShader, SoMainAxis, SoMinimalDistance, SoRuler, SoScreenSpaceAmbientOcclusion, SoShapeToPointSet, SoThresholdToPointSet, SoView2DCSOEditor, SwapViewer, WEMClip