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#include <itkGrayscaleGeodesicDilateImageFilter.h>

Inheritance diagram for itk::GrayscaleGeodesicDilateImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImage >:

Collaboration diagram for itk::GrayscaleGeodesicDilateImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImage >:

Public Types
typedef SmartPointer< const Self >	ConstPointer
typedef MarkerImageType::ConstPointer	MarkerImageConstPointer
typedef MarkerImageType::PixelType	MarkerImagePixelType
typedef MarkerImageType::Pointer	MarkerImagePointer
typedef MarkerImageType::RegionType	MarkerImageRegionType
typedef TInputImage	MarkerImageType
typedef MaskImageType::ConstPointer	MaskImageConstPointer
typedef MaskImageType::PixelType	MaskImagePixelType
typedef MaskImageType::Pointer	MaskImagePointer
typedef MaskImageType::RegionType	MaskImageRegionType
typedef TInputImage	MaskImageType
typedef OutputImageType::ConstPointer	OutputImageConstPointer
typedef OutputImageType::PixelType	OutputImagePixelType
typedef OutputImageType::Pointer	OutputImagePointer
typedef OutputImageType::RegionType	OutputImageRegionType
typedef TOutputImage	OutputImageType
typedef SmartPointer< Self >	Pointer
typedef GrayscaleGeodesicDilateImageFilter	Self
typedef ImageToImageFilter < TInputImage, TOutputImage >	Superclass
Public Member Functions
virtual ::itk::LightObject::Pointer	CreateAnother (void) const
const MarkerImageType *	GetMarkerImage ()
const MaskImageType *	GetMaskImage ()
virtual const char *	GetNameOfClass () const
virtual unsigned long	GetNumberOfIterationsUsed () const
void	SetMarkerImage (const MarkerImageType *)
void	SetMaskImage (const MaskImageType *)
	typedef (Concept::Convertible< MarkerImagePixelType, OutputImagePixelType >) InputConvertibleToOutputCheck
	typedef (Concept::Comparable< MarkerImagePixelType >) InputComparableCheck
	typedef (Concept::SameDimension< MarkerImageDimension, OutputImageDimension >) SameDimensionCheck

virtual void	SetRunOneIteration (bool _arg)
virtual bool	GetRunOneIteration () const
virtual void	RunOneIterationOn ()
virtual void	RunOneIterationOff ()

virtual void	SetFullyConnected (bool _arg)
virtual const bool &	GetFullyConnected ()
virtual void	FullyConnectedOn ()
virtual void	FullyConnectedOff ()
Static Public Member Functions
static Pointer	New ()
Static Public Attributes

static const unsigned int	MarkerImageDimension = TInputImage::ImageDimension
static const unsigned int	MaskImageDimension = TInputImage::ImageDimension
static const unsigned int	OutputImageDimension = TOutputImage::ImageDimension
Protected Member Functions
void	EnlargeOutputRequestedRegion (DataObject *)
void	GenerateData ()
void	GenerateInputRequestedRegion ()
void	ThreadedGenerateData (const OutputImageRegionType &outputRegionForThread, ThreadIdType threadId)

	GrayscaleGeodesicDilateImageFilter ()
	~GrayscaleGeodesicDilateImageFilter ()
void	PrintSelf (std::ostream &os, Indent indent) const
Private Member Functions
	GrayscaleGeodesicDilateImageFilter (const Self &)
void	operator= (const Self &)
Private Attributes
bool	m_FullyConnected
unsigned long	m_NumberOfIterationsUsed
bool	m_RunOneIteration

Detailed Description

template<class TInputImage, class TOutputImage>
class itk::GrayscaleGeodesicDilateImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImage >

geodesic gray scale dilation of an image

Geodesic dilation operates on a "marker" image and a "mask" image. The marker image is dilated using an elementary structuring element (neighborhood of radius one using only the face connected neighbors). The resulting image is then compared with the mask image. The output image is the pixelwise minimum of the dilated marker image and the mask image.

Geodesic dilation is run either one iteration or until convergence. In the convergence case, the filter is equivalent to "reconstruction by dilation". This filter is implemented to handle both scenarios. The one iteration case is multi-threaded. The convergence case is delegated to another instance of the same filter (but configured to run a single iteration).

The marker image must be less than or equal to the mask image (on a pixel by pixel basis).

Geodesic morphology is described in Chapter 6 of Pierre Soille's book "Morphological Image Analysis: Principles and Applications", Second Edition, Springer, 2003.

A noniterative version of this algorithm can be found in the ReconstructionByDilationImageFilter. This noniterative solution is much faster than the implementation provided here. All ITK filters that previously used GrayscaleGeodesicDiliateImageFilter as part of their implementation have been converted to use the ReconstructionByDilationImageFilter. The GrayscaleGeodesicDilateImageFilter is maintained for backward compatibility.

See also:: MorphologyImageFilter, GrayscaleDilateImageFilter, GrayscaleFunctionDilateImageFilter, BinaryDilateImageFilter, ReconstructionByDilationImageFilter

Definition at line 64 of file itkGrayscaleGeodesicDilateImageFilter.h.