ITK  4.6.0
Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit
IO/ImageReadExtractWrite.cxx
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// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// This example illustrates the common task of extracting a 2D slice from a
// 3D volume. This is typically used for display purposes and for expediting
// user feedback in interactive programs. Here we simply read a 3D volume,
// extract one of its slices and save it as a 2D image. Note that caution
// should be used when working with 2D slices from a 3D dataset, since for
// most image processing operations, the application of a filter on a
// extracted slice is not equivalent to first applying the filter in the
// volume and then extracting the slice.
//
// In this example we start by including the appropriate header files.
//
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//
// The filter used to extract a region from an image is the
// \doxygen{ExtractImageFilter}. Its header is included below. This filter
// is capable of extracting $(N-1)$-dimensional images from $N$-dimensional
// ones.
//
// \index{itk::ExtractImageFilter!header}
//
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#include "itkImage.h"
int main( int argc, char ** argv )
{
// Verify the number of parameters in the command line
if( argc < 3 )
{
std::cerr << "Usage: " << std::endl;
std::cerr << argv[0] << " input3DImageFile output2DImageFile " << std::endl;
std::cerr << " sliceNumber " << std::endl;
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
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//
// Image types are defined below. Note that the input image type is $3D$ and
// the output image type is $2D$.
//
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typedef signed short InputPixelType;
typedef signed short OutputPixelType;
typedef itk::Image< InputPixelType, 3 > InputImageType;
typedef itk::Image< OutputPixelType, 2 > OutputImageType;
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//
// The types for the \doxygen{ImageFileReader} and \doxygen{ImageFileWriter}
// are instantiated using the image types.
//
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// Here we recover the file names from the command line arguments
//
const char * inputFilename = argv[1];
const char * outputFilename = argv[2];
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//
// Below, we create the reader and writer using the New() method and
// assigning the result to a \doxygen{SmartPointer}.
//
// \index{itk::ImageFileReader!New()}
// \index{itk::ImageFileWriter!New()}
// \index{itk::ImageFileReader!SmartPointer}
// \index{itk::ImageFileWriter!SmartPointer}
//
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ReaderType::Pointer reader = ReaderType::New();
WriterType::Pointer writer = WriterType::New();
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//
// The name of the file to be read or written is passed with the
// SetFileName() method.
//
// \index{itk::ImageFileReader!SetFileName()}
// \index{itk::ImageFileWriter!SetFileName()}
// \index{SetFileName()!itk::ImageFileReader}
// \index{SetFileName()!itk::ImageFileWriter}
//
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reader->SetFileName( inputFilename );
writer->SetFileName( outputFilename );
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//
// The ExtractImageFilter type is instantiated using the input and
// output image types. A filter object is created with the New()
// method and assigned to a SmartPointer.
//
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typedef itk::ExtractImageFilter< InputImageType,
OutputImageType > FilterType;
FilterType::Pointer filter = FilterType::New();
filter->InPlaceOn();
filter->SetDirectionCollapseToSubmatrix();
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//
// The ExtractImageFilter requires a region to be defined by the
// user. The region is specified by an \doxygen{Index} indicating the
// pixel where the region starts and an \doxygen{Size} indication how many
// pixels the region has along each dimension. In order to extract a $2D$
// image from a $3D$ data set, it is enough to set the size of the region
// to $0$ in one dimension. This will indicate to
// ExtractImageFilter that a dimensional reduction has been
// specified. Here we take the region from the largest possible region of
// the input image. Note that UpdateOutputInformation() is being
// called first on the reader, this method updates the meta-data in
// the outputImage without actually reading in the bulk-data.
//
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reader->UpdateOutputInformation();
InputImageType::RegionType inputRegion =
reader->GetOutput()->GetLargestPossibleRegion();
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//
// We take the size from the region and collapse the size in the $Z$
// component by setting its value to $0$. This will indicate to the
// ExtractImageFilter that the output image should have a
// dimension less than the input image.
//
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InputImageType::SizeType size = inputRegion.GetSize();
size[2] = 0;
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//
// Note that in this case we are extracting a $Z$ slice, and for that
// reason, the dimension to be collapsed in the one with index $2$. You
// may keep in mind the association of index components
// $\{X=0,Y=1,Z=2\}$. If we were interested in extracting a slice
// perpendicular to the $Y$ axis we would have set \code{size[1]=0;}.
//
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//
// Then, we take the index from the region and set its $Z$ value to the
// slice number we want to extract. In this example we obtain the slice
// number from the command line arguments.
//
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InputImageType::IndexType start = inputRegion.GetIndex();
const unsigned int sliceNumber = atoi( argv[3] );
start[2] = sliceNumber;
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//
// Finally, an \doxygen{ImageRegion} object is created and initialized with
// the start and size we just prepared using the slice information.
//
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InputImageType::RegionType desiredRegion;
desiredRegion.SetSize( size );
desiredRegion.SetIndex( start );
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//
// Then the region is passed to the filter using the
// SetExtractionRegion() method.
//
// \index{itk::ExtractImageFilter!SetExtractionRegion()}
//
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filter->SetExtractionRegion( desiredRegion );
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//
// Below we connect the reader, filter and writer to form the data
// processing pipeline.
//
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filter->SetInput( reader->GetOutput() );
writer->SetInput( filter->GetOutput() );
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//
// Finally we execute the pipeline by invoking Update() on the writer. The
// call is placed in a \code{try/catch} block in case exceptions are
// thrown.
//
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try
{
writer->Update();
}
catch( itk::ExceptionObject & err )
{
std::cerr << "ExceptionObject caught !" << std::endl;
std::cerr << err << std::endl;
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
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return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}