Base class for RegionGrowImageFilter object. More...

#include <itkRegionGrowImageFilter.h>

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

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

Public Types
typedef SmartPointer< const Self >	ConstPointer
typedef TInputImage::SizeType	GridSizeType
typedef TInputImage::ConstPointer	InputImageConstPointer
typedef TInputImage::PixelType	InputImagePixelType
typedef TInputImage::Pointer	InputImagePointer
typedef TInputImage	InputImageType
typedef TOutputImage::PixelType	OutputImagePixelType
typedef TOutputImage::Pointer	OutputImagePointer
typedef TOutputImage	OutputImageType
typedef SmartPointer< Self >	Pointer
typedef RegionGrowImageFilter	Self
typedef ImageToImageFilter < TInputImage, TOutputImage >	Superclass
Public Member Functions
virtual void	ApplyRegionGrowImageFilter ()=0
virtual const char *	GetNameOfClass () const
virtual void	MergeRegions ()=0

virtual void	SetGridSize (GridSizeType _arg)
virtual const GridSizeType &	GetGridSize ()

virtual void	SetMaximumNumberOfRegions (unsigned int _arg)
virtual const unsigned int &	GetMaximumNumberOfRegions ()
Protected Member Functions
void	PrintSelf (std::ostream &os, Indent indent) const
	RegionGrowImageFilter ()
	~RegionGrowImageFilter ()
Private Member Functions
void	operator= (const Self &)
	RegionGrowImageFilter (const Self &)
Private Attributes
GridSizeType	m_GridSize
unsigned int	m_MaximumNumberOfRegions

Detailed Description

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

Base class for RegionGrowImageFilter object.

itkRegionGrowImageFilter is the base class for the RegionGrowImageFilter objects. It provides the basic function definitons that are inherent to a RegionGrowImageFilter objects. It is templated over the type of input and output image.

This object defines the interface for those algorithm that perform feature/object segmentation by merging regions (parts of the image) that are similar in nature based on some metric. As a result parts of the image which belong to the same object gets merged and the region grows.

As an example regarding using this class to implementation of advanced region growing algorithm, itkRegionGrowImageFilterKLM class has been derived from this class. The virtual function ApplyRegionGrowImageFilter() provides the interface to the outside world to extend/enhance the scope of the current algorithm or write other region growing algorithms. The function MergeRegions is interface for the operation that merges two regions.

The local variable GridSize is used to define the initial small regions that the image is fragmented (atomic regions) into. For an 12 x 12 input image, GridSize set equal to [3, 3] will result in 16 initial regions. The default values are set equal to 2. The user can sets the number of desired regions via the m_MaxNumRegions parameter and the algorithm tries to perform region merging until there are only m_MaxNumRegions. If m_MaxNumRegions is more than the number of initial blocks, no region merging occurs.

These blocks are important as the labels associated with these blocks keep changing during the region growing process and at the end, while generating the results, each of these atomic blocks are revisited and the blocks with same labels are considered to belong to the same region.

This object supports data handling of multiband images. The object accepts images in vector format, where each pixel is a vector and each element of the vector corresponds to an entry from 1 particular band of a multiband dataset. The input to this object is assumed to be a multiband vector image, and the output is defined by specific algorithm implementation. The second template parameter is used to generate the the output image and can be modified according the algorithm specific output type.

We expect the user to provide the input to the routine in vector format. A single band image is treated as a vector image with a single element for every vector.

Definition at line 80 of file itkRegionGrowImageFilter.h.