ITK  4.6.0
Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit
DataRepresentation/Image/Image1.cxx
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// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// This example illustrates how to manually construct an \doxygen{Image}
// class. The following is the minimal code needed to instantiate, declare
// and create the image class.
//
// \index{itk::Image!Instantiation}
// \index{itk::Image!Header}
//
// First, the header file of the Image class must be included.
//
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#include "itkImage.h"
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int main(int, char *[])
{
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//
// Then we must decide with what type to represent the pixels
// and what the dimension of the image will be. With these two
// parameters we can instantiate the image class. Here we create
// a 3D image with \code{unsigned short} pixel data.
//
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//
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//
// The image can then be created by invoking the \code{New()} operator
// from the corresponding image type and assigning the result
// to a \doxygen{SmartPointer}.
//
// \index{itk::Image!Pointer}
// \index{itk::Image!New()}
//
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//
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ImageType::Pointer image = ImageType::New();
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//
// In ITK, images exist in combination with one or more
// \emph{regions}. A region is a subset of the image and indicates a
// portion of the image that may be processed by other classes in
// the system. One of the most common regions is the
// \emph{LargestPossibleRegion}, which defines the image in its
// entirety. Other important regions found in ITK are the
// \emph{BufferedRegion}, which is the portion of the image actually
// maintained in memory, and the \emph{RequestedRegion}, which is
// the region requested by a filter or other class when operating on
// the image.
//
// In ITK, manually creating an image requires that the image is
// instantiated as previously shown, and that regions describing the image are
// then associated with it.
//
// A region is defined by two classes: the \doxygen{Index} and
// \doxygen{Size} classes. The origin of the region within the
// image with which it is associated is defined by Index. The
// extent, or size, of the region is defined by Size. Index
// is represented by a n-dimensional array where each component is an
// integer indicating---in topological image coordinates---the initial
// pixel of the image. When an image is created manually, the user is
// responsible for defining the image size and the index at which the image
// grid starts. These two parameters make it possible to process selected
// regions.
//
// The starting point of the image is defined by an Index class
// that is an n-dimensional array where each component is an integer
// indicating the grid coordinates of the initial pixel of the image.
//
// \index{itk::Image!Size}
// \index{itk::Image!SizeType}
//
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//
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ImageType::IndexType start;
start[0] = 0; // first index on X
start[1] = 0; // first index on Y
start[2] = 0; // first index on Z
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//
// The region size is represented by an array of the same dimension of the
// image (using the Size class). The components of the array are
// unsigned integers indicating the extent in pixels of the image along
// every dimension.
//
// \index{itk::Image!Index}
// \index{itk::Image!IndexType}
//
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//
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ImageType::SizeType size;
size[0] = 200; // size along X
size[1] = 200; // size along Y
size[2] = 200; // size along Z
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//
// Having defined the starting index and the image size, these two
// parameters are used to create an ImageRegion object which basically
// encapsulates both concepts. The region is initialized with the
// starting index and size of the image.
//
// \index{itk::Image!itk::ImageRegion}
// \index{itk::Image!RegionType}
//
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ImageType::RegionType region;
region.SetSize( size );
region.SetIndex( start );
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//
// Finally, the region is passed to the \code{Image} object in order to define its
// extent and origin. The \code{SetRegions} method sets the
// LargestPossibleRegion, BufferedRegion, and RequestedRegion
// simultaneously. Note that none of the operations performed to this point
// have allocated memory for the image pixel data. It is necessary to
// invoke the \code{Allocate()} method to do this. Allocate does not
// require any arguments since all the information needed for memory
// allocation has already been provided by the region.
//
// \index{itk::Image!Allocate()}
// \index{itk::Image!SetRegions()}
//
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image->SetRegions( region );
image->Allocate();
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return 0;
}