Version 7.2, part of Release 2010a, includes the following enhancements:

• Parallel execution option for block processing of large images
• bwdistgeodesic function for the geodesic distance transform of a binary image
• graydist function for the gray-weighted distance transform of a grayscale image
• imapplymatrix function for applying linear combination to image color channels
• Performance enhancements in imhist and rgb2gray functions

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Version 7.2, part of Release 2010a, includes the following enhancements:

• bwconvhull function for creating convex hull images
• dicomwrite function for writing multiple frames in one DICOM file
• nitfread function for reading NITF files that contain JPEG images
• Reduced memory use in watershed and std2 functions

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Version 7.1, part of Release 2010b, includes the following enhancements:

• New corner function for identifying corner points in an image
• Enhanced performance for iradon and blockproc functions
• Enhanced rsetwrite function that supports arbitrary image file formats

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Version 7.0, part of Release 2010a, includes the following enhancements:

• Enhanced blockproc function to support custom file formats and spatially varying operations
• Expanded makecform and applycform functions to provide chromatic adaptation
• Expanded multithreaded implementations, including applycform, deconvblind, edge, ifanbeam, im2bw, imclose, imfill, imopen, iradon, and medfilt2, for a total of more than 50 functions
• Performance improvements to edge, imdilate, imerode, imfilter, imresize, iradon, and medfilt2 functions
• Enhanced dicomanon function to conform with the Basic Application Level Confidentiality Profile

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Version 6.4, part of Release 2009b, includes the following enhancements:

• New blockproc function that supports processing of arbitrarily large images
• Multithreaded implementations of applylut, bwpack, bwunpack, imdilate, imerode, and imreconstruct functions
• Performance improvements for bwdist, imcomplement, imdilate, imerode, imfilter, improfile, and imrotate functions
• Efficient display and navigation of very large NITF-files in the Image Tool
• Expanded hough function that enables specification of arbitrary theta search space, yielding faster results for narrower theta ranges

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Version 6.3, part of Release 2009a, includes the following enhancements:

• Faster, less memory-intensive workflow for labeling regions and measuring their properties in binary images
• Multithreaded implementation of imfilter function
• Efficient display and navigation of very large TIFF files in imtool
• New dialog box for setting toolbox preferences

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Version 6.2, part of Release 2008b, includes the following enhancements:

• Enhanced performance for binary erosion and dilation
• New cornermetric function to help locate point features in images
• New createMask method to create a binary mask for any graphical ROI object

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