monai.utils depends on deprecated/removed distutils package

[bcdarwin]

Describe the bug

Technically more of a feature request, monai.utils.misc uses distutils.utils.strtobool which prevents this module from being imported in Python 3.12.

See here.

To Reproduce

With Python 3.12.x and MONAI 1.13.1:

import monai.utils

[rdozier-work]

+1 to this

[bcdarwin]

+1 to this

@rdozier-work this was done in #7900, just hasn't landed in a release yet.

[KumoLiu]

You can use monai-weekly as a workaround for now.

pip install monai-weekly