ITK Release 5/Wish List

The wish list is provided by members of the ITK development community. These requests will not necessarily be included in ITKv5.

Image IO

• Replacing current integer pixel IO types defined in itk::ImageIOBase by fixed width integer types
  • unsigned char -> uint8_t
  • char -> int8_t
  • unsigned short -> uint16_t
  • short -> int16_t
  • unsigned int -> uint32_t
  • int -> int32_t
  • unsigned long -> uint64_t
  • long -> int64_t
• Currently, the size of each type may vary from one platform to another.
• This is especially try for 'long' that is 32 bits on Windows/Visual Studio C++ 2013 (64 bits) but 64 bits on 64 bits Unix systems.
• Files saved on one platform should be read the same on a different platform.
• This would avoid having to compare `sizeof(mytype)` to know what type to use on a specific platform.
• This issue was raised in this patch suggestion

C++11 throughout

As ITK uses templates heavily, it would greatly benefit from usage of few C++11 goodies, especially auto and decltype.

VNL->Eigen

Replace VNL by Eigen, which is much more modern.