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Missing, Hidden, and Planned Features

This document outlines features that are mentioned in documentation or concepts but are currently missing, hidden, or not included in this repository's "Standard" build.

Hidden Features (UI)

Crop Widget (File Tab)

  • Status: Hidden (setVisible(False) in blitz/layout/ui.py).
  • Description: A widget in the "File" tab intended to allow destructive cropping of the dataset in memory.
  • Reason: Deactivated due to complexity and potential user errors. Users are encouraged to reload with a subset if needed.

Project Save/Load

  • Status: Removed / Disabled.
  • Description: Functionality to save the current session state (ROI, settings, loaded data path) to a .blitz project file.
  • Reason: Temporarily removed to simplify the application state management. Loading .blitz files is supported in code but the UI to save/load is hidden/removed.

Planned Features (Not in Standard Build)

OMERO Integration

  • Status: Planned for "Full" build.
  • Description: A handler to connect to OMERO servers for remote image data access.
  • Reason: Requires omero-py and other heavy dependencies not suitable for the lightweight Standard build.

DICOM Support

  • Status: Planned for "Full" build.
  • Description: Native loading of DICOM files and communication with PACS servers.
  • Reason: Requires pydicom, pynetdicom, and potentially gdcm which significantly increase the executable size.

DataSource Interface

  • Status: Planned / In Progress.
  • Description: A unified interface for all data sources (Loaders, Converters, Handlers).
  • Reason: Architectural improvement to support future plugins and extensions.

Conceptual Features

Autograd Engine

  • Status: Concept only (see docs/autograd_potential.md).
  • Description: A lightweight autograd engine for parameter optimization (e.g., auto-tuning filter parameters).
  • Reason: Experimental idea, not yet implemented.

Broken File Detection (ML)

  • Status: Concept only.
  • Description: Using small language models to detect corrupt file headers or structures before loading.
  • Reason: Experimental idea, not yet implemented.