<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello iamrndm b,<div><br></div><div>Both the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">itk::AnisotropicDiffusionImageFilter and the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">itk::CurvatureAnisotropicDiffusionImageFilter support anisotropic pixels in the underlying differential equation and the derivatives. So if you itk::Image has the correct Spacing set, the results may be acceptable. I have used both these algorithms with confocal microscopy and was happy with the results, how ever I don't recall the ratio of the voxel at the moment.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Brad</span></div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 4, 2011, at 4:25 PM, iamrndm b wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">hi all , <div>I am dealing with confocal data and the XY resolution of the images is far better than Z direction.</div><div>I am applying the gradientbased anisotropic filter to smooth my image before applying Otsu or other filters</div>
<div>My question is , how effective are these filters on data where the voxels have different spacing or does ITK recommend we first use the makeVolumeIsotropic filter.</div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div>
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