[Insight-users] Projection image filter ?

[Peter Cech]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 19:48:32 +0100, Gaetan Lehmann wrote:
> On Thursday 19 January 2006 19:02, Miller, James V (GE, Research) wrote:
> > Gaetan,
> >
> > AccumulateImageFilter will do this for projection along the X, Y, or Z
> > axes.
> 
> Yes, I want to project the image along one of the main axis, but the 
> AccumulateImageFilter seems to be limited to the sum or the mean of all pixel 
> on the axis, while I want the maximum intensity projection :-/
> Some other statistics parameters may also be interesting, like minimum, mean, 
> median, variance, ...
> 
> I think projection is a quite common operation in image analysis. Should I 
> create a new filter ?

Some time ago I created a filter like that, but somehow never got to
submitting it to ITK. You can fetch it from
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~pcech/transfer/collapse_dimension.tar.gz

Feel free to port relevant parts to AccumulateImageFilter and submit for
inclusion into ITK.

Regards,
Peter