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Reduce code duplication -- Random dictionary transforms that can't call their array version #3087

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We have both array and dictionary transforms. In a lot of cases, our dictionary transforms include a for loop that repeatedly call the matching array transform. However, because most random array transforms have something like this:

def __call__(self, data):
    self.randomize()
    # do something

We can't call them from the dictionary transform, because doing so would mean that each of the keys of the dictionary would have a different randomisation applied to them. An example of this is RandGaussianNoised, which doesn't call RandGaussianNoise.

We could avoid code duplication by having a boolean as to whether to randomise the data or not. It could look like this:

def __call__(self, data, randomize=True):
    if randomize:
        self.randomize()
    # do something

Then from the dictionary transform, we could call the randomise at the start:

def __init__(self,...):
    self.transform = RandGaussianNoise(...)

def __call__(self, data):
    d = dict(data)
    self.transform.randomize()
    for key in self.key_iterator(d):
        d[key] = self.transform(d[key], randomize=False)

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