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Version 5.1 (R14SP3) Image Processing Toolbox

This table summarizes what's new in Version 5.1 (R14SP3).

New Features and Changes	Version Compatibility Considerations	Fixed Bugs and Known Problems	Related Documentation at Web Site
Yes Details below	Yes—Details labeled as Compatibility Considerations, below. See also Summary.	Bug Reports Includes fixes	No

New features and changes introduced in this version are

• Support for Two New Medical Image File Formats

• New Point, Rectangle, and Line Functions

• Image Tool Enhancements and Improvements

• New Utility Functions for Use with Profile-Based Color Space Conversion Functions

• New Documentation on Processing Image Sequences

• Control Point Selection Tool Now Works on Macintosh Systems

• Compatibility Considerations

Support for Two New Medical Image File Formats

The toolbox now includes functions for reading metadata and image data from two additional medical image file formats. Analyze 7.5 and Interfile. For more information, see Reading and Writing Data in Medical Formats.

New Point, Rectangle, and Line Functions

The toolbox includes three functions, impoint, imline, and imrect, that you can use to create draggable points, lines, and rectangles in a figure window. These functions can be used as building blocks for other GUI tools.

Image Tool Enhancements and Improvements

New Distance Tool

The Image Tool now includes a new Distance tool that you can use to determine the distance between any two points in an image. This tool is also available in the toolbox's suite of modular interactive GUI tools. Using the imdistline function you can add the Distance tool to GUIs of your own creation. For more information, see Measuring Features in an Image

Adjust Contrast Tool Enhancements and Improvements

The Adjust Contrast tool has been redesigned to provide better usability. For examples, the Adjust Contrast tool Window/Level capability is now a separate mode with its own activation button.

New Utility Functions for Use with Profile-Based Color Space Conversion Functions

The toolbox has two new utility functions, iccroot and iccfind, for use with the profile-based color conversion functions. For more information, see Performing Profile-based Color Space Conversions.

New Documentation on Processing Image Sequences

The Image Processing Toolbox User's Guide includes a new section, Working with Image Sequences, that describes which toolbox functions can be used with sequences of image, also known as image stacks

Control Point Selection Tool Now Works on Macintosh Systems

The Control Point Selection Tool now works on Macintosh^® systems.

Compatibility Considerations

Obsolete and Deleted Functions

The following table lists toolbox functions that have been made obsolete or removed in this version.

Function	Enhancement
impositionrect	This function is obsolete. Use imrect to perform the same tasks.
pixval	This function is obsolete. It now issues a warning when used. Use impixelinfo for pixel reporting and use imdistline for measuring distance

Image Tool Is Not Compilable

The imtool function is not compilable with the MATLAB Compiler.

Version 5.2 (R2006a) Image Processing Toolbox

Version 5.0.2 (R14SP2) Image Processing Toolbox

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