Fully parallelized the VolumeSmooth procedure so it runs with the 100% load on 12-thread system.

VolumeSmooth (Median):  corrected the fixed memory allocation for the sorting, so the smoothing of double-valued volumes does not crash anymore.

UI - VolumeSmooth function:  Removed erroneous  "ROI required function"

DICOM Tree functionality:  decoupling the DICOM volume objectification functionality from the DICOM-Folder-Tree dialog box.  This is so that functionality could be used by other DICOM-related dialogs.

Register 4D volume to 3D:  major code re-engineering.

Registration of 3D/4D volume to ROI.  This frequent and useful scenario is greatly sped up by adding the "Target ROI" identical to the binary Target and inflated by 1 voxels. This improvement is only effective for the URAL-measure scenarios.

SIG_DIFF registration measure:  changed accumulation from L2 to L1 norm.

Affine transform reslicing: substantially increased the parallelization resulting in about x2 speed improvement on the developmental 6-core platform.

Defect fix: EdgeWave algorithm on real-valued volumes:  provided correct conversion of units from the dialog box to the actual procedure.

Fixed crash defect:  4D volume overlaid by 3D-ROI as active layer.  Calling EdgeWave function was producing crash.

FireVoxel file save - disabled the PHI warning, so it is the full user responsibility now.

FireVoxel Build 164 is released.

1. SulciPrint2D:   Added basic skeletonize functionality to binary SulciPrint2D.

2. MainMenu>Volume>Pad:  added the function to pad\extend volume with "0" fringes of the specified size (in mm).

3. BiCal post ISMRM follow-up and corrections.  Introduction of the new BiCal version - Multipass. Original BiCal is rebranded "BiCal Basic" on the user interface.  BiCal Multipass becomes "BiCal" on the user interface.

4. Corrected the cleanup of the FireVoxel working directory upon start\close of the Application.

5.Completely new BiCal algorithm is introduced with greatly simplified interface.

5. Included additional heuristics into the loading logic of the MIDAS  *.time files to correct the reported loading defect.

6. FireVoxel ABT: for each of the time-based dynamic model added an option to run the test both for the FVX file format and MIDAS file format.  Three actual models are verified in this dual mode.

7. Corrected: when in a 3 or more layer volumetric entity, the ROI is selected and the other layers are SI-volumes, a crash occurs right after the "Ambiguous layer configuration" message.

8. All Dynamic parametric models:  non-functioning "Process All" option was restored.

9. F9 function key brings up the FVX "Save Document" dialog box.

F9 function key brings up the FVX "Save Document" dialog box.

All Dynamic parametric models:  non-functioning "Process All" option was restored.

Corrected: when in a 3 or more layer volumetric entity, the ROI is selected and the other layers are SI-volumes, a crash occurs right after the "Ambiguous layer configuration" message.

FireVoxel ABT: for each of the time-based dynamic model added an option to run the test both for the FVX file format and MIDAS file format.  Three actual models are verified in this dual mode.

Included additional heuristics into the loading logic of the MIDAS  *.time files to correct the reported loading defect.

BICAL parameter dialog box:
Reduced and greatly simplified and reduce # of parameters.
Notice new option: processing without Edge detection.

New generation of the BiCal algorithm is ready => "BiCal Multipass"

Sample of the processing on BPD-001

170 seeds were manually constructed over the White Matter.
Original nonuniformity =  0.608
N3-corrected (2-pass)     =  0.31
BiCal MP                         = 0.057


Both N3 and BiCal preserved the WM\GM contrast measured between close pairs of seeds = 1.67+/-0.24.

ORIGINAL volume:   White Matter Nonuniformity = 0.608

N3-corrected volume (double pass with aggressive FieldSmoothness=10mm):  White Matter non-uniformity = 0.31

BiCal-corrected volume:  White matter non-uniformity is 0.057

BiCal Explorer Classic:  restored the dialog box and processing to find out optimal parameters for BiCal correction.