Highdicom

Enhancements

- Allow segmentation of images without a frame of reference UID (183)
- Allow passing of additional attributes of equipment module (182)

Bug fixes

- Fix references of source images and inclusion of palette color lut attributes in Advanced Blending Presentation State (179)

New features

- Implement Softcopy Presentation State IODs (139)
- Add method to construct UID from an existing UUID (176)

Bug fixes

- Ensure values of data elements with binary VRs are encoded/decoded correctly (173)

Breaking changes

- Deprecation of big endian transfer syntaxes (173 [see section in release notes](https://highdicom.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release_notes.html#deprecation-of-big-endian-transfer-syntaxes))

Enhancements

- Support referencing of source images in SR template TID 1501 (169)

Bug fixes

- Fix typo in error message (175)

New features

- Implement decoding API for `SpecimenDescription` and related classes such as `SpecimenPreparationStep` and friends (161)

Enhancements

- Run tests on examples included in docstrings (165)

Bug fixes

- Fix computation of tile positions for TILED_FULL images that contain multiple optical paths (161)

Breaking changes

- Derive `SpecimenPreparationStep` from `pydicom.Dataset` instead of `pydicom.Sequence` (161, see [section in release notes](https://highdicom.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release_notes.html#refactoring-of-specimenpreparationstep-class) for further details).

Enhancements

* Support pydicom version 2.3.0 (163)