Proposals:ImageIO API for GUI Support
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ImageIO API for GUI Support
The Need
When building GUI applications based on ITK, it is common to use the ImageFileReader and ImageFileWriter classes, that through the ImageIO Factories are capable of supporting a large number of image file formats.
There are in fact, so many file formats supported, that it is challenging to list them all in the File Dialog of a GUI at the application level.
Current Support
Currently the ImageIO classes support the GUI interfaces by providing the following API
ArrayOfExtensionsType GetSupportedWriteExtensions() const ArrayOfExtensionsType GetSupportedReadExtensions() const void AddSupportedWriteExtension( const char * extension ) void AddSupportedReadExtension( const char * extension )
Proposed API
Enumeration of Extensions
- Suggested API for the ImageIO classes
- unsigned int GetNumberOfExtensions() const;
- std::string GetNthExtension(unsigned int) const
Translation Table for Writing
| ImageIO | Description | Family | Extension |
|---|---|---|---|
| AnalyzeImageIO | Uncompressed header in binary | Analyze | .hdr |
| Uncompressed pixel data in binary | Analyze | .img | |
| Compressed pixel data in binary | Analyze | .img.gz | |
| BMPImageIO | Uncompressed pixel data in binary with text header | BMP | .bmp |
| Uncompressed pixel data in binary with text header | BMP | .BMP | |
| BioRadImageIO | Binary header followed by pixel data in binary | BioRad | .pic |
| Brains2MaskImageIO | Binary Mask Octree-encoded | Brains2 | .mask |
| DICOMImageIO2 | Deprecated | DICOM | none |
| GDCMImageIO | DICOM 2D, 3D and 4D | DICOM | .dcm |
| DICOM 2D, 3D and 4D | DICOM | none | |
| GE4ImageIO | Not Available for Writing | GE4 | none |
| GE5ImageIO | Not Available for Writing | GE5 | none |
| GEAwImageIO | Not Available for Writing | GEAw | none |
| GiplImageIO | Uncompressed binary header followed by binary pixel data | GIPL | .gipl |
| Gzip Compressed binary header followed by binary pixel data | GIPL | .gipl.gz | |
| IPLImageIO | ?? | IPL | .?? |
| JPEGImageIO | Compressed pixel data in binary | JPEG | .jpg |
| LSMImageIO | ?? | LSM | .?? |
| MetaImageIO | ASCII Text Header | MetaImage | .mhd |
| NiftiImageIO | Uncompressed pixel data in binary | Nifti | .img |
| NrrdImageIO | Uncompressed pixel data in binary | NRRD | .nrrd |
| PNGImageIO | Uncompressed pixel data in binary | NRRD | .png |
| RawImageIO | Uncompressed pixel data in binary | NRRD | .raw |
| SiemensVisionImageIO | Uncompressed pixel data in binary | NRRD | .?? |
| StimulateImageIO | Uncompressed pixel data in binary | NRRD | .?? |
| TIFFImageIO | Compressed pixel data in binary | NRRD | .tiff |
| VTKImageIO | Text header followed by uncompressed pixel data in binary | NRRD | .vtk |
