# 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.