When using the function "ImageToOpenCVImageFilter::GetOpenCVMat()" a memory leak was happening, leading to increase the memory usage of MITK, and crashing consequently after a while.
The old "IplImage" pointer of OpenCv was replaced for the newer "cv::Mat" class and the issue was solved. The method "ImageToOpenCVImageFilter::ItkImageProcessing" was also modified to be used with a cv::Mat input.