[Insight-users] What is a good image format for ITK?

[hhiraki@lab.nig.ac.jp]

Mathieu Malaterre and Stephen R. Aylward,

Thank you for your quick responses. Your suggestions motivate me to 
try the CVS version. I hope I could try soon.


Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> What do you mean exactly by 'application specific data' ? A medical 
> image doesn't usually contains these sort of things ?
>
> BTW, did you had a look at MetaDataDictionary
> http://www . itk . org/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1MetaDataDictionary . html
> Otherwise you might have a look at some VTK files such as:
> http://www . vtk . org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkXMLPImageDataWriter . html

I meant the data to describe how it had been produced or the parameter 
sets enough to reproduce the data. For example, SegmentationEditor in 
InsightApplication seems to store intermediate results in some files 
and organize them by their names. It may be encapsulated in a file 
format with metadata. Most image formats have a comment field usable 
to store arbitrary data but may have some restriction on length and 
encoding of contents.
The two class you suggented are promising. A mixture of these and 
MetaImageIO must be what I imagined.


Regards,

Hideaki Hiraki