[Insight-users] How to sum pixels row-by-row?

[Ali -]

> > > It is strange how ITK can perform so many elaborated image processings,  > > but it takes hours to figure out how to implement some elementary matrix  > > manipulations. I thought the inclusion of VXL in ITK means having a fast  > > MATLAB-style image processing toolkit in c++.> > That's right that many filters are missing to perform simple tasks.> ITK is open source, and open to contributions. Feel free to contribute  > contribute new code to the insight journal :-)Even if the community provides it, I think it is not a good idea to create a 'database' of all operations for images and I have at least 2 reasons for that. First, it is really hard to find out which class does what operation simply by guessing from its name. Secondly, not all the operations can be created as a linear combination of the simple operations. This means you have to write filters forever, many of them may be used only once.For example, the slice-by-slice filter you provides does not accept binary filters to operate on each slice. So, if I want to divide an N x N image A to a 1 x N image B row-by-row, I have to modify the slice-by-slice filter. In the matrix form, this can be down simply by 'literally' one line: B->GetTranspose() * A. Can you tell me how it is possible to covert images to matrices and vice vera? I know ITK uses VNL matrices but I cannot see where this is used to maniplulate image pixels directly. If this can be done, we won't need hundereds of image operation classes.> > Gaetan> > > > -- > Gaëtan Lehmann> Biologie du Développement et de la Reproduction> INRA de Jouy-en-Josas (France)> tel: +33 1 34 65 29 66    fax: 01 34 65 29 09> http://voxel.jouy.inra.fr
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