[Insight-users] A Question

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Sebastian,


                         "Yes"


ITK is in fact a generic image analysis toolkit, although its was
designed to provide functionalities for medical image segmentation
and registration.

ITK is being used for processing satellite images at the CNES, for
example.

Processing images of X-Ray angiography should be possible with ITK.


You will find, for example, interesting to look at the 3D to 2D
registration methods that are used for registering CT scans to
X-Ray fluoroscopy images, that are available in ITK.

Since you mention vessel-detection, you may be interested in looking
at the following ITK Application:

      http://www.itk.org/HTML/Curve2DExtraction.htm

Where vessel detection is done on fluoroscopy images.


That being said, this doesn't mean that it is going to be trivial.  :-)

Segmenting X-ray images has many specific challenges due to the
fact that you have a projection image that overlaps many objects.


You will find more details in the ITK Software Guide:

        http://www.itk.org/ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf


   Regards,


      Luis



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Sebastián Kennedy wrote:
> Hello,
> I am new in the list. I see that ITK is really powerful, but I have a 
> question. I am working with DICOM Files from XA (X-RAY Angiography) and 
> I always have troubles to do some segmentation process over them. 
> Sometimes either they are noisy or the edges of the vessels are not 
> well-defined. I am using another library to make some processing to the 
> image, but I see that ITK is medical oriented.
> Viewing all the examples, I suposed that it is used mainly in CT, MRI 
> and PET images, but I want to know if I can use ITK over those XA Images 
> (most of them are cardiac images, but also have to process brain images 
> with subtraction process).
> If anybody say yes, I will think seriously about port my code to 
> implement the processing with ITK. ;)
> Thanks very much, and excuse my poor English. I am from Argentina.
>  
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> -- 
> Sebastián Kennedy
> 
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