itkDistanceMetric.h

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/*=========================================================================

  Program:   Insight Segmentation & Registration Toolkit
  Module:    $RCSfile: itkDistanceMetric.h,v $
  Language:  C++
  Date:      $Date: 2005-11-21 02:40:48 $
  Version:   $Revision: 1.12 $

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  See ITKCopyright.txt or http://www.itk.org/HTML/Copyright.htm for details.

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=========================================================================*/
#ifndef __itkDistanceMetric_h
#define __itkDistanceMetric_h

#include "itkMembershipFunctionBase.h"
#include "itkArray.h"

namespace itk{ 
namespace Statistics{

template< class TVector >
class ITK_EXPORT DistanceMetric : public MembershipFunctionBase< TVector >
{
public:
  typedef DistanceMetric Self;
  typedef MembershipFunctionBase< TVector > Superclass;
  typedef typename Superclass::MeasurementVectorSizeType MeasurementVectorSizeType;

  itkTypeMacro(DistanceMetric, MembershipFunctionBase);

  typedef Array< double > OriginType ;

  virtual void SetMeasurementVectorSize( const MeasurementVectorSizeType );

  void SetOrigin(const OriginType& x) ;
  itkGetConstReferenceMacro(Origin, OriginType) ;

  virtual double Evaluate(const TVector &x) const = 0 ;

  virtual double Evaluate(const TVector &x1, const TVector &x2) const = 0 ;

protected:
  DistanceMetric();
  virtual ~DistanceMetric() {}
  void PrintSelf(std::ostream& os, Indent indent) const;

  OriginType m_Origin ;
} ; // end of class

} // end of namespace Statistics 
} // end of namespace itk

#ifndef ITK_MANUAL_INSTANTIATION
#include "itkDistanceMetric.txx"
#endif

#endif