User`s guide

18 Image Processing Toolbox 3.1 Release Notes
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Support for DICOM Files
Version 3.0 adds functions for reading image data and metadata from DICOM
files. DICOM is an important file and network interchange standard in the
area of medical imaging.
Miscellaneous
Version 3.1 included several new utility functions or previously undocumented
utility functions. Most of these were created to support functions in the key
feature categories, such as deconvolution.
Function Description
dicomread
Read image data from DICOM file
dicominfo
Read metadata from DICOM file
Function Description
circshift
Shift array circularly
graythresh
Compute global image threshold using
Otsu's method (image enhancement)
im2mis
Convert image to Java
MemoryImageSource
imnoise
Added support for new noise types:
'poisson' and 'localvar'
label2rgb
Convert label matrix to RGB image [New
for Version 3.1]
padarray
Pad array
regionprops
Renamed from existing function imfeature;
extended to N-D
stretchlim
Find limits to contrast stretch an image