[Insight-users] Re: Newbies searching

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Sickboy


1) A 3D volume is not a 3D model.

    In your previous email you were asking
    for reading Dicom 2D slices and constructing
    a volume with them.

    If what you want is a 3D model, you should
    prepare some coffee and start reading the
    chapters on imageg Segmentation on the
    SoftwareGuide.

      http://www.itk.org/ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf

    You will also find an overview of ITK segmentation
    methods in the Tutorial sessions:

      http://www.itk.org/HTML/Tutorials.htm


2) Please look at the Tutorials:

    ITK provides Image Processing, Image Segmentation
    and Image Registrtion. VTK provides Visualization.

    There are many segmentation methods and people are
    still doing Ph.D. developing new ones.  The method
    you select must be appropriate for the anatomical
    structures you are interested in, the image modality,
    the time available and the final application that
    you intent for the segmentated model.


3) You will find Brain datasets in the Data link:

          http://www.itk.org/HTML/Data.htm




Regards,



   Luis




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Sickboy wrote:
> Hi Luis,
> 
> thank you for the reply.
> I know that newbie questions often bores many users,
> but i got still some questions before starting with ITK and VTK.
> 
> Regarding your answers:
> 
> 1) When i convert the 2d cut-views to 3d model,
>     there will be really an 3d model which i can also export to STL (or 
> any other 3d format) for example ?
>     Sounds to good as i can believe it ;)
> 
> 2) When i understand ITK correct, it is for importing / exporting and 
> processing medical datas
>     in opposition to the VTK which will be used to display these datas 
> and making user interfaces.
>     Please correct me if i´m wrong.
> 
> 3) An account for the DICOM datasets ftp would be great.
>     I´ve searching for it the last days, but only found single images 
> instead of sequences.
>     The anatomical structures aren´t important for me at the moment.
>     I only need any datasets which contains organs like the heart eg. to 
> start with reconstruction.
> 
> 
> Hope that my next questions will be more interesting to all of u ;)
> 
> Thanks in advance
> daSickboy
> 
> 
> 
>> Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 21:08:20 -0400
>> From: Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez@kitware.com>
>> To: Sickboy <sickboy@9elements.com>
>> Cc: insight-users@itk.org
>> Subject: Re: [Insight-users] Newbies searching
>>
>>
>> Hi Sickboy
>>
>>
>> 1) Yes, with ITK you can read DICOM 2D slices and
>>     create 3D volumes.
>>
>>
>> 2) Yes, ITK is a good choice for this operations.
>>     You will find examples on this under:
>>
>>         Insight/Examples/IO
>>                  DicomSeriesReadImageWrite.cxx
>>
>>
>> 3) Do you care about the actual anatomical structures
>>     in the DICOM files ?  That is, liver or brain ?
>>
>>     A number of datasets from abdominal CT are available
>>     from the ISIS center at Georgetown University. If you
>>     are interested we can point you to a FTP location.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>    Luis
>>
>>
>> -------------------
>> Sickboy wrote:
>>
>> > Hi guys,
>> >
>> > i search a library to create 3d volumetric datas from 2d DICOM CT, MRT,
>> > ... images.
>> > Is ITK a good choice for that or are there any better openSource
>> > libraries ?
>> > Also i´m looking for various anonymous DICOM files, for testing 
>> purpose.
>> >
>> > I´m very new to this topic, so all informations are welcome :)
>> >
>> > thx
>> > daSickboy
>> >
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