v0.22.0

Probably left this one far too long...

New Features

• New features for parsing existing Microscopy Bulk Annotations: annread function and annotation_coordinate_type property (#230)
• Multiprocessing for frame encoding in segmentation construction (#245)
• A major set of improvements for working with tiled segmentations including ability to pass in total pixel matrices to the segmentation constructor, the ability to create and read TILED_FULL segmentations, and the ability to construct segmentation total pixel matrices from tiled images (#248)
• New function to create multiresolution segmentation pyramids (#253)

Bug fixes

• Allow duplicate entries in the ReferencedSeriesSequence of a segmentation image (#229)
• Remove plane orientation from the shared functional groups in the case of segs using the slide coordinate system (#236), a DICOM compliance issue
• Exclude incompatible pydicom 2.4.0 in setup.py (#238)
• Fixes to various value representations (#239)
• Fix return type of highdicom.seg.DimensionIndexSequence.get_plane_positions_of_image (#240)
• Correctly account for chrominance subsampling of natively encoded YBR_FULL_422 images in the ImageFileReader (#242)
• Work around pillow 10.0.0 breaking changes (#244)
• Specimen description and preparation fixes within microscopy related content items (#246)
• A number of style improvements (#257 #258 #259 #261 #262 #263 #264 #265 #268)

Performance improvements

• Significant improvements to segmentation creation efficiency (#227)

Documentation and tests

• Add codespell tool to check for spelling errors in the docs (#237)
• Fix documentation links (#250)
• Fix the readthedoc config (#256)
• Fix to an incorrectly written frame encoding test (#270)
• Use latest version of github actions (#266)

New contributors

Thanks to @yarikoptic @thomas-albrecht @elitalien and @DimitriPapadopoulos for their first contributions to highdicom!