ITK  4.8.0
Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit
Examples/DataRepresentation/Image/Image2.cxx
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#include "itkImage.h"
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//
// The first thing required to read an image from a file is to include
// the header file of the \doxygen{ImageFileReader} class.
//
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int main( int , char * argv[])
{
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//
// Then, the image type should be defined by specifying the
// type used to represent pixels and the dimensions of the image.
//
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typedef unsigned char PixelType;
const unsigned int Dimension = 3;
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//
// Using the image type, it is now possible to instantiate the image reader
// class. The image type is used as a template parameter to define how the
// data will be represented once it is loaded into memory. This type does
// not have to correspond exactly to the type stored in the file. However,
// a conversion based on C-style type casting is used, so the type chosen
// to represent the data on disk must be sufficient to characterize it
// accurately. Readers do not apply any transformation to the pixel data
// other than casting from the pixel type of the file to the pixel type of
// the ImageFileReader. The following illustrates a typical
// instantiation of the ImageFileReader type.
//
// \index{itk::ImageFileReader!Instantiation}
// \index{itk::Image!read}
//
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//
// The reader type can now be used to create one reader object. A
// \doxygen{SmartPointer} (defined by the \code{::Pointer} notation) is used
// to receive the reference to the newly created reader. The \code{New()}
// method is invoked to create an instance of the image reader.
//
// \index{itk::ImageFileReader!New()}
// \index{itk::ImageFileReader!Pointer}
//
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ReaderType::Pointer reader = ReaderType::New();
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//
// The minimal information required by the reader is the filename
// of the image to be loaded in memory. This is provided through
// the \code{SetFileName()} method. The file format here is inferred
// from the filename extension. The user may also explicitly specify
// the data format using the \doxygen{ImageIOBase} class (a list
// of possibilities can be found in the inheritance diagram of this
// class.).
//
// \index{itk::ImageFileReader!SetFileName()}
//
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const char * filename = argv[1];
reader->SetFileName( filename );
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//
// Reader objects are referred to as pipeline source objects; they
// respond to pipeline update requests and initiate the data flow in the
// pipeline. The pipeline update mechanism ensures that the reader only
// executes when a data request is made to the reader and the reader has
// not read any data. In the current example we explicitly invoke the
// \code{Update()} method because the output of the reader is not connected
// to other filters. In normal application the reader's output is connected
// to the input of an image filter and the update invocation on the filter
// triggers an update of the reader. The following line illustrates how an
// explicit update is invoked on the reader.
//
// \index{itk::ImageFileReader!Update()}
//
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reader->Update();
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//
// Access to the newly read image can be gained by calling the
// \code{GetOutput()} method on the reader. This method can also be called
// before the update request is sent to the reader. The reference to the
// image will be valid even though the image will be empty until the reader
// actually executes.
//
// \index{itk::ImageFileReader!GetOutput()}
//
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ImageType::Pointer image = reader->GetOutput();
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//
// Any attempt to access image data before the reader executes will yield
// an image with no pixel data. It is likely that a program crash will
// result since the image will not have been properly initialized.
//
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return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}