WikiExamples/Statistics/HistogramToImageFilterGrayscale.cxx

#include "itkImage.h"
#include "itkImageToHistogramFilter.h"
#include "itkImageRandomIteratorWithIndex.h"

typedef itk::Image<unsigned char, 2> ImageType;

void CreateImage(ImageType::Pointer image);

int main(int, char *[])
{
  const unsigned int MeasurementVectorSize = 1; // Grayscale
  const unsigned int binsPerDimension = 30;
  
  ImageType::Pointer image = ImageType::New();
  CreateImage(image);
  
  typedef itk::Statistics::ImageToHistogramFilter< ImageType > ImageToHistogramFilterType;
  
  ImageToHistogramFilterType::HistogramType::MeasurementVectorType lowerBound(binsPerDimension);
  lowerBound.Fill(0);
  
  ImageToHistogramFilterType::HistogramType::MeasurementVectorType upperBound(binsPerDimension);
  upperBound.Fill(255) ;
  
  ImageToHistogramFilterType::HistogramType::SizeType size(MeasurementVectorSize);
  size.Fill(binsPerDimension);
  
  ImageToHistogramFilterType::Pointer imageToHistogramFilter = ImageToHistogramFilterType::New();
  imageToHistogramFilter->SetInput(image);
  imageToHistogramFilter->SetHistogramBinMinimum(lowerBound);
  imageToHistogramFilter->SetHistogramBinMaximum(upperBound);
  imageToHistogramFilter->SetHistogramSize(size);
  imageToHistogramFilter->Update();

  ImageToHistogramFilterType::HistogramType* histogram = imageToHistogramFilter->GetOutput();

  std::cout << "Frequency = ";
  for(unsigned int i = 0; i < histogram->GetSize()[0]; ++i)
    {
    std::cout << histogram->GetFrequency(i) << " ";
    }
    
  std::cout << std::endl;
  
  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

void CreateImage(ImageType::Pointer image)
{
  // Create a black image with a red square and a green square.
  // This should produce a histogram with very strong spikes.
  itk::Size<2> size;
  size.Fill(10);

  itk::Index<2> start;
  start.Fill(0);

  itk::ImageRegion<2> region(start, size);

  image->SetRegions(region);
  image->Allocate();
  
  image->FillBuffer(0);
  
  itk::ImageRandomIteratorWithIndex<ImageType> imageIterator(image, image->GetLargestPossibleRegion());
  imageIterator.SetNumberOfSamples(10);
 
  while(!imageIterator.IsAtEnd())
    {
    imageIterator.Set(122);
    ++imageIterator;
    }

}