<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all,<div> this is a heads up message on a bug that Oleksandr Dzyubak has found in itkHessianRecursiveGaussianImageFilter</div><div>(bug 0008990 in Mantis, <a href="http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=10599)">http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=10599)</a> and for which I recently submitted a fix.</div><div><br></div><div>The bug affected the behavior of the filter when NormalizeAcrossScale is set to true with dimensions > 2, and it has effects on multi-scale vesselness filters or multi-scale shape-detection filters in general (e.g. those using itk::MultiScaleHessianBasedMeasureImageFilter), and vessel-enhancing diffusion filters.</div><div><br></div><div>The bug caused incorrect normalization of the Hessian across scale-space, and, for instance, lead to a poor performance of vesselness filters when spanning several scales (vessels at smaller scales were washed out compared to how they appear after the fix).</div><div><br></div><div>The fix has been committed after 3.18 was released, hence it will be in for ITK > 3.18. There is now a test (itkHessianRecursiveGaussianImageFilterScaleSpaceTest) that tests the scale-space behavior of the class quantitatively.</div><div><br></div><div>So, for whoever was using multi-scale Hessian-based filters in 3D and higher, please rerun your tests, since there's a very good chance (100% ?) that the results will have changed (most likely for the better).</div><div><br></div><div>I'm here for any clarification. Again, kudos to Oleksandr Dzyubak who highlighted the misbehavior through lots of testing.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Luca</div><div><br></div><br><br><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>--</div><div>Luca Antiga, PhD</div><div>Principal Scientist, OROBIX Srl</div><div>via L.A. 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