ITK 5.4.4

We are pleased to announce the release of ITK 5.4.4, a maintenance update delivering critical improvements while maintaining API stability. This is latest maintenance update for this cross-platform, open-source toolkit supporting N-dimensional scientific image analysis with spatially-aware algorithms. 🎉 🍻 🥳

🔦 Highlights

• Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed GDCM JPEG2000 structure cleanup to prevent crashes on malformed files
  • Corrected TIFFImageIO reuse behavior
• Documentation:
  • Updated documentation on Doxygen shared groups
  • Spelling corrections in the ITK Software Guide
• Platform Support:
  • Added GraalPy compatibility
  • Improved NumPy dtype handling for Python interoperability
  • Following CPython’s deprecation schedule, ITK now provides packages for Python 3.9 or later.
• Remote Modules:
  • Updated Montage, MorphologicalContourInterpolation and WebAssemblyInterface modules

💾 Download

Python Packages

Install ITK Python packages with:

pip install itk

Guide and Textbook

• InsightSoftwareGuide-Book1-5.4.4.pdf
• InsightSoftwareGuide-Book2-5.4.4.pdf

Library Sources

• InsightToolkit-5.4.4.tar.gz
• InsightToolkit-5.4.4.zip

Testing Data

Unpack optional testing data in the same directory where the Library Source is unpacked.

• InsightData-5.4.4.tar.gz
• InsightData-5.4.4.zip

Checksums and Signatures

• InsightToolkit-5.4.4.tar.gz.asc
• InsightToolkit-5.4.4.zip.asc
• InsightData-5.4.4.tar.gz.asc
• InsightData-5.4.4.zip.asc
• MD5SUMS
• SHA512SUMS

🙏 Acknowledgments

Thank you to contributors Albert, Ariouz, Bradley Lowekamp, Dženan Zukić, Hans Johnson, Jakub Klinkovský, Matthew McCormick, Mihail Isakov, Tom Birdsong, and the ITK community for their code, testing, and documentation efforts.

🗣️ What’s Next

ITK 6.0 Beta 1 Preparation
The community is finalizing ITK 6.0 Beta 1, featuring:

• Architectural upgrades for contemporary C++ development
• Enhanced template metaprogramming capabilities
• Code modernization for improved readability and maintainability

5.4 Maintenance Commitment

We remain dedicated to supporting current users through:

• Regular security and regression patches
• Critical bug resolution
• Platform compatibility updates

Enjoy ITK!