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Here is my code:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> vtkContourFilter *iso = vtkContourFilter::New();<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> iso->SetInput(vtkImporter4->GetOutput());<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> iso->ComputeScalarsOn();<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> iso->SetValue(0,128.1);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe;color:green'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> vtkSmartPointer<vtkWindowedSincPolyDataFilter> smoother = <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> vtkSmartPointer<vtkWindowedSincPolyDataFilter>::New();<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> smoother->SetInputConnection(iso->GetOutputPort()); <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> smoother->SetNumberOfIterations(15); <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> smoother->BoundarySmoothingOn(); <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> smoother->FeatureEdgeSmoothingOn(); <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> smoother->SetFeatureAngle(120.0); <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> smoother->SetEdgeAngle(90.0);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> smoother->SetPassBand(0.001); <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> smoother->NonManifoldSmoothingOn(); <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> smoother->NormalizeCoordinatesOn(); <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> smoother->Update();<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> vtkPolyDataMapper *isoMapper = vtkPolyDataMapper::New();<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> isoMapper->SetInput(smoother->GetOutput());<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> isoMapper->ScalarVisibilityOff();<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> vtkActor *isoActor1 = vtkActor::New();<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> isoActor1->SetMapper(isoMapper);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> isoActor1->GetProperty()->SetColor(1.0, 0.49, 0.25);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> isoMapper->Delete();<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> ren_L->AddActor(isoActor1);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'> isoActor1->Delete();<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:DotumChe'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Maybe the parameter are not properly set?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Xiaopeng<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Jothybasu Selvaraj [mailto:jothybasu@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:44 PM<br><b>To:</b> Xiaopeng Yang<br><b>Cc:</b> insight-users@itk.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Insight-users] How to smooth the segmented surface<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>If you are visualizing it with vtk, run <span style='color:green'>vtkWindowedSincPolyDataFilter filter on it.<br><br>Jothy</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Xiaopeng Yang <<a href="mailto:yxp233@postech.ac.kr">yxp233@postech.ac.kr</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Here I attach an image of the segmented 3D liver. You can see stairs in the image. How to remove the stairs and make the image look like continuous and smooth?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://uploadingit.com/file/zvg7xr2jjxmbanxe/Liver.png" target="_blank">http://uploadingit.com/file/<span style='font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"'></span>zvg7xr2jjxmbanxe/Liver.png</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks a lot!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Xiaopeng</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:insight-users-bounces@itk.org" target="_blank">insight-users-bounces@itk.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:insight-users-bounces@itk.org" target="_blank">insight-users-bounces@<span style='font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"'></span>itk.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Xiaopeng Yang<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 20, 2012 11:17 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:insight-users@itk.org" target="_blank">insight-users@itk.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Insight-users] How to smooth the segmented surface</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Dear Users,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I have tried to segment the liver from 5 mm CT slices. When I tried to visualize the segmented liver in 3D, I found that the surface of the 3D liver was discrete, just like stairs. I guess that is because of the 5 mm interval between CT slices. Do you guys have any good idea how to make the 3D surface of the liver look continuous and smooth?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Xiaopeng<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_____________________________________<br>Powered by <a href="http://www.kitware.com" target="_blank">www.kitware.com</a><br><br>Visit other Kitware open-source projects at<br><a href="http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html" target="_blank">http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html</a><br><br>Kitware offers ITK Training Courses, for more information visit:<br><a href="http://www.kitware.com/products/protraining.php" target="_blank">http://www.kitware.com/products/protraining.php</a><br><br>Please keep messages on-topic and check the ITK FAQ at:<br><a href="http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_FAQ" target="_blank">http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_FAQ</a><br><br>Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:<br><a href="http://www.itk.org/mailman/listinfo/insight-users" target="_blank">http://www.itk.org/mailman/listinfo/insight-users</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><br>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Jothy<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>