itkDecisionRuleBase.h

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

  Program:   Insight Segmentation & Registration Toolkit
  Module:    $RCSfile: itkDecisionRuleBase.h,v $
  Language:  C++
  Date:      $Date: 2008-10-07 09:09:39 $
  Version:   $Revision: 1.9 $

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#ifndef __itkDecisionRuleBase_h
#define __itkDecisionRuleBase_h

#include <vector>
#include "vnl/vnl_matrix.h"
#include "itkObject.h"
#include "itkObjectFactory.h"
#include "itkArray.h"
#include "itkVariableLengthVector.h"

namespace itk
{

class ITKCommon_EXPORT DecisionRuleBase : public Object
{
public:
  typedef DecisionRuleBase              Self;
  typedef Object                        Superclass;
  typedef SmartPointer<Self>            Pointer;
  typedef SmartPointer<const Self>      ConstPointer;

  itkTypeMacro(DecisionRuleBase, Object);

  typedef std::vector< double >            VectorType;
  typedef Array< double >                  ArrayType;
  typedef VariableLengthVector< double >   VariableLengthVectorType;

  virtual unsigned int Evaluate( const VectorType &discriminantScores) const = 0;

  virtual unsigned int Evaluate( const ArrayType &discriminantScores) const = 0;


protected:
  DecisionRuleBase();
  virtual ~DecisionRuleBase();
  void PrintSelf(std::ostream& os, Indent indent) const;
  
private:
  DecisionRuleBase(const Self&); //purposely not implemented
  void operator=(const Self&); //purposely not implemented
}; // end of class

} // namespace itk

#endif