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itk::Region Class Referenceabstract

#include <itkRegion.h>

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Detailed Description

A region represents some portion or piece of data.

Region is an abstract class that represents some portion or piece of a DataObject. A region is used by the pipeline when processing just a portion of the data, either because 1) memory limits dictate that the pipeline cannot fit the entire dataset into memory; 2) the user has requested that only a piece of the dataset is to be processed; or 3) parallel (multi-threaded) processing of the data is required.

There are two types of regions in itk: a structured region that specifies a rectangular piece of an image (ImageRegion), and a unstructured region that specifies piece i of N total pieces (MeshRegion). Depending on the filter (its input and output types, and its position in the pipeline), ImageRegion or MeshRegion will be used to describe the region.

Region is a light-weight object and not reference counted. This means that is behaves differently than ITK classes that are reference counted. For example, smart pointer access is not provided, and the (subclasses') constructor, destructor, copy constructor and operator= are all public.

See Also
ImageRegion
MeshRegion

Definition at line 64 of file itkRegion.h.

Public Types

enum  RegionType {
  ITK_UNSTRUCTURED_REGION,
  ITK_STRUCTURED_REGION
}
 
typedef Region Self
 

Public Member Functions

virtual const char * GetNameOfClass () const
 
virtual RegionType GetRegionType () const =0
 
virtual void Print (std::ostream &os, Indent indent=0) const
 
 Region ()
 
virtual ~Region ()
 

Protected Member Functions

virtual void PrintHeader (std::ostream &os, Indent indent) const
 
virtual void PrintSelf (std::ostream &os, Indent indent) const
 
virtual void PrintTrailer (std::ostream &os, Indent indent) const
 

Member Typedef Documentation

Standard class typedefs.

Definition at line 68 of file itkRegion.h.

Member Enumeration Documentation

Enums used to describe the extent types.

Enumerator
ITK_UNSTRUCTURED_REGION 
ITK_STRUCTURED_REGION 

Definition at line 71 of file itkRegion.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

itk::Region::Region ( )
inline

Definition at line 83 of file itkRegion.h.

virtual itk::Region::~Region ( )
inlinevirtual

Definition at line 84 of file itkRegion.h.

Member Function Documentation

virtual const char* itk::Region::GetNameOfClass ( ) const
virtual
virtual RegionType itk::Region::GetRegionType ( ) const
pure virtual

Subclasses must return a region type describing whether the region is structured or unstructured.

Implemented in itk::ImageRegion< VImageDimension >, itk::ImageRegion< VDimension >, itk::ImageIORegion, itk::TemporalRegion, and itk::MeshRegion.

virtual void itk::Region::Print ( std::ostream &  os,
Indent  indent = 0 
) const
virtual

Print the region.

virtual void itk::Region::PrintHeader ( std::ostream &  os,
Indent  indent 
) const
protectedvirtual
virtual void itk::Region::PrintSelf ( std::ostream &  os,
Indent  indent 
) const
protectedvirtual

Methods invoked by Print() to print information about the object including superclasses. Typically not called by the user (use Print() instead) but used in the hierarchical print process to combine the output of several classes.

Reimplemented in itk::ImageRegion< VImageDimension >, itk::ImageRegion< VDimension >, itk::ImageIORegion, and itk::TemporalRegion.

virtual void itk::Region::PrintTrailer ( std::ostream &  os,
Indent  indent 
) const
protectedvirtual

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