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| ITK itself is written in C++, however a tool called CableSwig can be used to generate bindings for other languages. This allows you to use the same runtime (running in optimised C++ code) but develop in a scripting language (and take advantage of all the attendant benefits).
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| The following languages are supported via the bindings:
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| * '''Tcl''' : http://www.tcl.tk/ (see TclLanguage)
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| * '''Python''' : http://www.python.org/ (see PythonLanguage)
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| * '''Java''' : http://java.sun.com/ (see JavaLanguage)
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| In order to build the bindings, you will need to:
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| # Build and install CableSwig ([http://www.itk.org/HTML/CableSwig.html more info])
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| # Ensure you have installed both the runtime '''and''' the development versions of your chosen language
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| # Build ITK using the appropriate settings for your platform, and enable the CABLE_* option for your language
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| # Install ITK as per normal
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| # Test!
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| == Tcl Bindings ==
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| Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a very simple language for writing scripts.
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| == Python Bindings ==
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| Python is a very elegant and powerful language.
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| Here is some example Python code for ITK (taken from `Insight/Examples/Filtering`):
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| #!/usr/bin/env python
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| # BinaryThresholdImageFilter.py
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| from InsightToolkit import *
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| from sys import argv
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| reader = itkImageFileReaderUS2_New()
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| writer = itkImageFileWriterUS2_New()
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| filter = itkBinaryThresholdImageFilterUS2US2_New()
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| filter.SetInput( reader.GetOutput() )
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| writer.SetInput( filter.GetOutput() )
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| reader.SetFileName( argv[1] )
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| writer.SetFileName( argv[2] )
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| filter.SetLowerThreshold( eval( argv[3] ) )
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| filter.SetUpperThreshold( eval( argv[4] ) )
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| filter.SetOutsideValue( eval( argv[5] ) )
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| filter.SetInsideValue( eval( argv[6] ) )
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| writer.Update()
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| == Java Bindings ==
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| Java is a modern object-oriented language.
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| == How to wrap additional classes ==
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| Given that ITK is based on Generic Programming, most of the C++ classes are implemented as templates. Therefore, their final type is not defined until the actual template is instantiated with specific template arguments. This generality makes difficult to automatically wrap ITK classes for scripting languages such as Tcl and Python. The solution adopted by ITK is to use the powerful Cable-Swig platform and to select specific instantiation for the most commonly used types. In practice it is impossible to wrap all ITK classes, simply because the combinations of types will result in an very large number of classes.
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| It is then likely that you may find that your favorite class is not being wrapped...
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| What to do in that case ?
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| You have two independent lines of action:
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| # Write an email to the users-list and request the developers to wrap the class that you need.
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| # Wrap the class yourself by following the instructions in the remaining part of this section.
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| Since we have learned that programmers are great at learning-by-example, the following section will teach you how to wrap a new class by walking step-by-step through the process of wrapping a new class. The subject of our example is the <tt>itkOtsuMultipleThresholdCalculator</tt>, simply because at the time of writing this text there was a request pending for adding this class to the wrapping, so we thought that by writing these instructions we will solve two problems simultaneously :-)
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| === Finding the directory ===
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| The first step in writing the wrapping for a class is to find the directory where such class has been cataloged. In the particular case of our subject, the <tt>itkOtsuMultipleThresholdCalculator</tt>, it is located in the directory
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| <tt>Insight/Code/Algorithms</tt>
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| Therefore we know that its wrapping files will have to be placed under
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| <tt>Insight/Wrapping/CSwig/Algorithms</tt>
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| As you probably noticed already, all the files defining the wrapping process are located in the directory
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| <tt>Insight/Wrapping/CSwig</tt>
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| === What files to modify ===
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| Now that we found the directory, we have to keep in mind that '''three''' files will have to be modified in order to add wrapping for our subject class. These files are
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| # CMakeLists.txt
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| # wrap_ITKAlgorithms.cxx
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| # the new file that defines the instantiations for our class
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| Let's start with the CMakeLists.txt file since it will be the simplest change to make. When you open any of the CMakeLists.txt files in the Wrapping/CSwig subdirectories you will find that the initial section contains a list of source files to wrap. Something like
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| SET(WRAP_SOURCES
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| wrap_itkCurvatureFlowImageFilter
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| wrap_itkDemonsRegistrationFilter
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| wrap_itkHistogramMatchingImageFilter
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| wrap_itkImageRegistrationMethod
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| ...
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| )
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| The only thing that you have to change in this file is to add your class to this list. Note that you must add the prefix "wrap_itk" to the name of your class. In our case,
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| for wrapping the <tt>itkOtsuMultipleThresholdCalculator</tt> we will add it as
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| SET(WRAP_SOURCES
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| wrap_itkCurvatureFlowImageFilter
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| wrap_itkDemonsRegistrationFilter
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| '''wrap_itkOtsuMultipleThresholdCalculator'''
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| wrap_itkHistogramMatchingImageFilter
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| wrap_itkImageRegistrationMethod
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| ...
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| )
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| Let's now move into the <tt>wrap_ITKAlgorithms.cxx</tt> file. If you open this file, you will find code like the following.
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| #ifdef CABLE_CONFIGURATION
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| #include "itkCSwigMacros.h"
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| namespace _cable_
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| {
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| const char* const package = ITK_WRAP_PACKAGE_NAME(ITK_WRAP_PACKAGE);
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| const char* const groups[] =
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| ITK_WRAP_GROUP(itkCurvatureFlowImageFilter),
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| ITK_WRAP_GROUP(itkDemonsRegistrationFilter),
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| ITK_WRAP_GROUP(itkHistogramMatchingImageFilter),
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| ITK_WRAP_GROUP(itkImageRegistrationMethod),
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| ITK_WRAP_GROUP(itkImageToImageMetric),
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| ITK_WRAP_GROUP(itkMeanSquaresImageToImageMetric),
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| ...
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| As you probably already guessed, the only thing that you have to do in this file is to add a line for your class to be wrapped, in our case we add the line
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| ITK_WRAP_GROUP(itkOutsuMultipleThresholdCalculator),
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| and the code will look like
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| #ifdef CABLE_CONFIGURATION
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| #include "itkCSwigMacros.h"
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| namespace _cable_
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| {
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| const char* const package = ITK_WRAP_PACKAGE_NAME(ITK_WRAP_PACKAGE);
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| const char* const groups[] =
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| ITK_WRAP_GROUP(itkCurvatureFlowImageFilter),
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| ITK_WRAP_GROUP(itkDemonsRegistrationFilter),
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| ITK_WRAP_GROUP(itkHistogramMatchingImageFilter),
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| '''ITK_WRAP_GROUP(itkOutsuMultipleThresholdCalculator),'''
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| ITK_WRAP_GROUP(itkImageRegistrationMethod),
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| ITK_WRAP_GROUP(itkImageToImageMetric),
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| ITK_WRAP_GROUP(itkMeanSquaresImageToImageMetric),
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| ...
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