itkGradientImageFilter.h

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#ifndef __itkGradientImageFilter_h
#define __itkGradientImageFilter_h

#include "itkImageToImageFilter.h"
#include "itkCovariantVector.h"
#include "itkImageRegionIterator.h"

namespace itk
{


template <typename TPixelType, unsigned int VImageDimension > class VectorImage;


template< class TInputImage,
          class TOperatorValueType = float,
          class TOutputValueType = float,
          class TOutputImageType = Image< CovariantVector< TOutputValueType,
                                                           TInputImage::ImageDimension >,
                                          TInputImage::ImageDimension > >
class ITK_EXPORT GradientImageFilter:
  public ImageToImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImageType >
{
public:
  itkStaticConstMacro(InputImageDimension, unsigned int,
                      TInputImage::ImageDimension);
  itkStaticConstMacro(OutputImageDimension, unsigned int,
                      TInputImage::ImageDimension);

  typedef GradientImageFilter Self;

  typedef TInputImage                       InputImageType;
  typedef typename InputImageType::Pointer  InputImagePointer;
  typedef TOutputImageType                  OutputImageType;
  typedef typename OutputImageType::Pointer OutputImagePointer;

  typedef ImageToImageFilter< InputImageType, OutputImageType > Superclass;
  typedef SmartPointer< Self >                                  Pointer;
  typedef SmartPointer< const Self >                            ConstPointer;

  itkNewMacro(Self);

  itkTypeMacro(GradientImageFilter, ImageToImageFilter);

  typedef typename InputImageType::PixelType  InputPixelType;
  typedef TOperatorValueType                  OperatorValueType;
  typedef TOutputValueType                    OutputValueType;
  typedef typename OutputImageType::PixelType OutputPixelType;
  typedef CovariantVector<
    OutputValueType, itkGetStaticConstMacro(OutputImageDimension) >
  CovariantVectorType;
  typedef typename OutputImageType::RegionType OutputImageRegionType;

  virtual void GenerateInputRequestedRegion()
  throw( InvalidRequestedRegionError );

  void SetUseImageSpacingOn()
  { this->SetUseImageSpacing(true); }

  void SetUseImageSpacingOff()
  { this->SetUseImageSpacing(false); }

  itkSetMacro(UseImageSpacing, bool);
  itkGetConstMacro(UseImageSpacing, bool);

#ifdef ITK_USE_CONCEPT_CHECKING

  itkConceptMacro( InputConvertibleToOutputCheck,
                   ( Concept::Convertible< InputPixelType, OutputValueType > ) );
  itkConceptMacro( OutputHasNumericTraitsCheck,
                   ( Concept::HasNumericTraits< OutputValueType > ) );

#endif

  itkSetMacro(UseImageDirection, bool);
  itkGetConstMacro(UseImageDirection, bool);
  itkBooleanMacro(UseImageDirection);
protected:
  GradientImageFilter();
  virtual ~GradientImageFilter();
  void PrintSelf(std::ostream & os, Indent indent) const;

  void ThreadedGenerateData(const OutputImageRegionType & outputRegionForThread,
                            ThreadIdType threadId);

private:
  GradientImageFilter(const Self &); //purposely not implemented
  void operator=(const Self &);      //purposely not implemented

  virtual void GenerateOutputInformation();

  // An overloaded method which may transform the gradient to a
  // physical vector and converts to the correct output pixel type.
  template <class TValueType>
  void SetOutputPixel( ImageRegionIterator< VectorImage<TValueType,OutputImageDimension> > &it, CovariantVectorType &gradient )
  {
    if ( this->m_UseImageDirection )
      {
      CovariantVectorType physicalGradient;
      it.GetImage()->TransformLocalVectorToPhysicalVector( gradient, physicalGradient );
      it.Set( OutputPixelType( physicalGradient.GetDataPointer(), InputImageDimension, false ) );
      }
    else
      {
      it.Set( OutputPixelType( gradient.GetDataPointer(), InputImageDimension, false ) );
      }
  }

  template <class T >
  void SetOutputPixel( ImageRegionIterator< T > &it, CovariantVectorType &gradient )
  {
    // This uses the more efficient set by reference method
    if ( this->m_UseImageDirection )
      {
      it.GetImage()->TransformLocalVectorToPhysicalVector( gradient, it.Value() );
      }
    else
      {
      it.Value() = gradient;
      }
  }


  bool m_UseImageSpacing;

  // flag to take or not the image direction into account
  // when computing the derivatives.
  bool m_UseImageDirection;
};
} // end namespace itk

#ifndef ITK_MANUAL_INSTANTIATION
#include "itkGradientImageFilter.hxx"
#endif

#endif