[Insight-users] Re: Curves compiling error

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Rodolfo,


1) What version of ITK are you using ?

2) What compiler are you using ?


Thanks


    Luis



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Rodolfo Palacios wrote:

> Hi Luis,
> 
> I tried to compile the example "CurvesLevelSetImageFilter.cxx" but I get 
> a comipling error that I haven't been able to fix:
> 
> itkSparseFieldLevelSetImageFilter.txx line 101:
> 
> 'typename' is only allowed in template declarations.
> 
> 
>> From: Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>
>> To: Rodolfo Palacios <rpalacios75 at hotmail.com>
>> CC: insight-users at itk.org
>> Subject: Re: [Insight-users] liver vessel segmentation
>> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 02:12:12 -0500
>>
>>
>> Hi Rodolfo,
>>
>> If the blood vessels are at least 5 pixels in diameter in
>> your images you could use the CURVESLevelSetImageFilter.
>>
>> http://www.itk.org/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1NarrowBandCurvesLevelSetImageFilter.html 
>>
>>
>>
>> Implemented from:
>>
>>   L. Lorigo, O. Faugeras, W.E.L. Grimson, R. Keriven, R. Kikinis,
>>   A. Nabavi, and C.-F. Westin,
>>
>>   "Curves: Curve evolution for vessel segmentation."
>>    Medical Image Analysis, 5:195-206, 2001
>>
>>
>>
>> Otherwise you may consider computing the Hessian of the image and
>> tracking along the direction of the minimal Hessian eigen-value.
>>
>>
>>
>> As in
>>
>>
>>    "Ridges in Image and Data Analysis"
>>    by David Eberly
>>
>>
>> and
>>
>>
>>   "Initialization, noise, singularities, and scale in height ridge
>>     traversal for tubular object centerline extraction"
>>
>>    Aylward, S.R.; Bullitt, E.;
>>
>>    Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on  ,
>>    Volume: 21 , Issue: 2 , Feb. 2002
>>    Pages:61 - 75
>>
>>
>>
>> This is illustrated in 2D in the ITK Application:
>>
>>
>>    http://www.itk.org/HTML/Curve2DExtraction.htm
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>>        Luis
>>
>>
>> ------------------------
>> Rodolfo Palacios wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm working on the segmentation of liver vessels (arteries, veins and 
>>> biliary conducts). The input images are in Dicom format obtained from 
>>> CT Scans and I'm using VTK for visualization. My question is: Which 
>>> one of ITK's segmentation methods (hybrid methods maybe?) is better 
>>> suited for this kind of job considering that the contrast between 
>>> vessels and liver tissue is very small?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Rodolfo Palacios.
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
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