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+# Version 1.0 (2019-12-18)
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+## Major Improvements
+- Use Python [multiprocessing](https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/multiprocessing.html) to speed up patch creation.
+- Replace [os](https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/os.html) with [pathlib](https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/pathlib.html) module.
+- Added [argparse](https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/argparse.html) support.
+- Rewrote patch processing code using vector operations.
+- Fully documented all functions and methods with docstrings and type hints.
+- Compute image means and standard deviations for normalization online.
+- Increased efficiency of code by rewriting code.