[Insight-users] Image and ImageFilter idioms.

[Brady McCary]

Insight-users,

What is the proper use of Image's and ImageFilter's? Here is an
example to clarify my question.

START

ImageType::Pointer filter_output;
FilterType::Pointer filter = FilterType::New();

/* execute filter */

filter_output = filter->GetOutput();
filter->Delete();

/* use filter_output */

END

So the question is something like this:

1. Were ImageFilter designed with SmartPointers to use this idiom or

2. does one need to allocate an Image and copy the contents of
filter->GetOutput() and then execute filter->Delete()?

Brady