[ITK Community] [Insight-developers] PROPOSAL FOR IMAGEIO: class to get image attributes before reading image

[Williams, Norman K]

Just found that.  Does this rise to the level of something that should be
encapsulated and added to ITK?

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Kent Williams norman-k-williams at uiowa.edu






On 11/21/13 12:57 PM, "Bill Lorensen" <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:

>Here is one way to do it:
>http://itk.org/Wiki/ITK/Examples/IO/ReadUnknownImageType
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>On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Williams, Norman K
><norman-k-williams at uiowa.edu> wrote:
>> Is there a way to do this I'm missing? There are times when it's
>>important
>> to know the ITK pixel type and ImageDimension before reading an image
>> file.  In particular, I'm writing a reader to be called from Matlab, and
>> it would be good to at least create an image with the same
>>ImageDimension
>> as the on-disk file.
>>
>> This would (I guess) call itk::ImageIOFactory::CreateImageIO to get the
>> appropriate ImageIO object, then set the filename and call
>> itk::ImageIOFactory::ReadImageInformation.  This would work except for
>> multi-file images like DICOM -- the fly in everyone's ImageIO ointment.
>>
>> I know how to do this; the question is where should it live? Should it
>>be
>> a method of itkImageFileReader? Or its own thing?
>>
>>
>>
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