<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi Rahul,</div><div> the fixed itkHessianRecursiveGaussianImageFilter is in the ITK CVS repository (Insight/Code/BasicFilters) and it has been backported today to the 3.18 branch by Luis. The test is in Insight/Testing/Code/BasicFilters.</div><div>To test your program you'll have to checkout ITK from there and build it, and then compile your program against it.</div><div><br></div><div>As a cheap alternative for testing purposes, you can download the incriminated file (<a href="http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Code/BasicFilters/itkHessianRecursiveGaussianImageFilter.txx?revision=1.10&root=Insight&view=markup)">http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Code/BasicFilters/itkHessianRecursiveGaussianImageFilter.txx?revision=1.10&root=Insight&view=markup)</a>, put it in your own source tree at Insight/Code/BasicFilters (i.e. replacing your own version of the file) and compile your program.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Luca</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Apr 28, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Rahul P.Kumar wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi Luca,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">May I know where I can find the newly fixed itkHessianRecursiveGaussianImageFilter and tkHessianRecursiveGaussianImageFilterScaleSpaceTest for testing my program?<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Regards,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Rahul</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">From:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Luca Antiga <<a href="mailto:luca.antiga@gmail.com">luca.antiga@gmail.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">To:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>itk Users <<a href="mailto:insight-users@itk.org">insight-users@itk.org</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Sent:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wed, April 28, 2010 3:25:41 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Subject:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Insight-users] Heads up on HessianRecursiveGaussian bug fix<br></font><br>Hi all,<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> this is a heads up message on a bug that Oleksandr Dzyubak has found in itkHessianRecursiveGaussianImageFilter</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(bug 0008990 in Mantis,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=10599)">http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=10599)</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and for which I recently submitted a fix.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">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 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">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 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">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 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">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 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'm here for any clarification. Again, kudos to Oleksandr Dzyubak who highlighted the misbehavior through lots of testing.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Best regards</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Luca</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><br><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; "><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; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; "><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; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; "><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; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Luca Antiga, PhD</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Principal Scientist, OROBIX Srl</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">via L.A. 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