TIAToolbox 1.1.0

• Updates AUTHORS.md

Major Updates and Feature Improvements

• Adds DICOM support.
• Updates license to more permissive BSD 3-clause.
• Adds MicroNet model.
• Improves support for tiff files.
  • Adds a check for tiles in a TIFF file when opening.
  • Uses OpenSlide to read a TIFF if it has tiles instead of OpenCV (VirtualWSIReader).
  • Adds a fallback to tifffile if it is tiled but openslide cannot read it
    (e.g. jp2k or jpegxl tiles).
• Adds support for multi-channel images (HxWxC).
• Fixes performance issues in semantic_segmentor.py.
  • Performance gain measurement: 21.67s (new) vs 45.564 (old) using a 4k x 4k WSI.
  • External Contribution: @ByteHexler.
• Adds benchmark for Annotations Store.

Changes to API

• None

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Enhances the error messages to be more informative.
• Fixes Flake8 Errors, typos.
  • Fixes patch predictor models based after fixing a typo.
• Bug fixes in Graph functions.
• Adds documentation for docker support.
• General tidying up of docstrings.
• Adds metrics to readthedocs/docstrings for pretrained models.

Development related changes

• Adds pydicom and wsidicom as dependency.
• Updates dependencies.
• Fixes Travis detection and makes improvements to run tests faster on Travis.
• Adds Dependabot to automatically update dependencies.
• Improves CLI definitions to make it easier to integrate new functions.
• Fixes compile options for test_annotation_stores.py