JOSS paper release

Overview

This release contains a paper to be published in the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). The title of the paper is "Synaptus: A Matlab/Octave toolbox for synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging".

The process of writing the paper has included several updates to the toolbox and its documentation, most notably

• Adding the paper itself (found under folder paper)
• Adding an array version of the PSM algorithm (array_psm.m), with datasets and tests
• Making test formatting more consistent, and adding a script for running all tests in sequence
• Bug fixes regarding paths to toolboxes in tests
• Switching from plain text to markdown for documentation
• Updating README.md, LICENSE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md and COC.md files. The most significant changes have been made to README.md, which now includes several example usages, with images, and updated installation instructions.

Accepted pull requests

• lang: en-GB by @arfon in #4
• Fixes path definitions for Ubuntu Linux by @Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman in #5

New Contributors

• @arfon made their first contribution in #4
• @Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman made their first contribution in #5

Full Changelog: v1.0...v1.1

Initial release: SynApTUS - a Matlab/Octave toolbox for Synthetic AperTure UltraSound

This is the first release of this toolbox, based on work which was mostly done during my PhD work in the period 2010-2012. I have collected algorithms and datasets from this work, and have attempted to collect them in a format which is easily accessible and somewhat standardized. I am no longer working actively with synthetic aperture ultrasound, and I regard the initial work of making the toolbox as finished. If others are interested in using and developing the toolbox (contributions are most welcome!) there may be additional releases.

The toolbox has been verified to run in both Matlab and Octave.

Martin H. Skjelvareid