[Insight-users] how to stack many 2D Dicom image (slices) to produce a 3D volume and visualize it!

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Charfeddine,

ITK does not provide any visualization functionalities.

If you want to implement volume visualization you have
the option of combining ITK with:

    * OpenGL
    * OpenInventor
    * VTK

There are many examples of combinations of ITK and VTK
that you can consult on the InsightApplications checkout.
Combining ITK and VTK is very natural because both toolkits
have similar coding styles and similar architectures.


You should read the tutorial:

"Getting Started II: Using ITK with VTK"
http://www.itk.org/CourseWare/Training/GettingStarted-II.pdf


In InsightApplications, you should look at applications
such as


     * ThresholdSegmentationLevelSet
     * FastMarchingLevelSet
     * ShapeDetectionLevelSet
     * GeodesicActiveContour
     * SegmentationEditorFltkGui
     * SNAP
     * LiverTumorSegmentation
     * DeformableModelSimplexMesh
     * DeformableRegistration3DTimeSeries
     * CellularSegmentation
     * ImageRegistration2D
     * ImageViewer
     * ImageColorViewer


If you are looking for applications ready to use,
you could also consider:


     * Slicer      www.slicer.org
     * VolView     www.volview.com




Regards,


    Luis


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charfeddine amir wrote:
> Hi Mathieu
> 
> thx for your reply. i 've read the section 7.12 (about reading/writing 
> DICOM from the ITK Software Guide) again, and espacially 7.12.3 (Reading 
> a 2D DICOM Series and Writing a Volume ). i think that's what i'm searching.
> but still have a question : what are Volume format supported i can 
> specify? and how to visualize a volume?
> Hi Pablo,
> 
> thx for your message,
> it will be very helpful to me if u send me the small utility you wrote, 
> if ever i crash somewhere (espacially i didn't know how to manipulate 
> and visualize the result ( the volume )).
> thx very much for your kindness
> A+
> TimCha
> 
> */Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre at kitware.com>/* a écrit :
> 
>     Pablo,
> 
>     How different is it from
>     Insight/Examples/IO/DicomSeriesReadImageWrite2.cxx ? Maybe we could
>     update the example, if it is lacking some features.
> 
>     TimCha,
> 
>     I would also recommend reading the section (7.12) about reading/writing
>     DICOM from the ITK Software Guide.
> 
>     HTH
>     Mathieu
> 
>     Pablo D. Burstein wrote:
>      > Yes, it is possible to do that. As a matter of fact I wrote and
>     use a
>      > small utility application that does just that. I can send it to
>     you if
>      > you wish.
>      >
>      > Cheers,
>      > Pablo.
>      >
>      > charfeddine amir wrote:
>      >
>      >> Hi all
>      >> I'm fronting a problem and hope your urgent help
>      >> is it possible after reading a number of 2D Dicom slice, to
>     stack them
>      >> into a 3D volume, and visualize the volume!
>      >> any comment is welcome,
>      >> thx a lot ,
>      >> TimCha
>      >>
>      >>
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