# Version 1.0 (2019-12-18)

## 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.