[Insight-users] Are there readers capable of streaming?

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:34 AM, eugen <eudyck at web.de> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>  I'm trying to setup an itk pipeline, which streams a volume (in DICOM
>  format). I read in itkImageSeriesReader.h that the imageIO objects
>  actually cannot read portions of files/slices/volumes... Is that true?
>
>  Particularly I'm interested in streaming DICOM and Nrrd files.
>  Is there a possibitity in ITK to read a whole file portion by portion?
>
>
>  Thanks in advance,
>  Eugen
>
>  PS: I'm using itk 3.2.0

Hi Eugen,

  I'll answer only for the DICOM part with GDCM: no this is not
possible in the general case to do streaming. The only trick you can
use is the streaming along the last dimension when you are dealing
with a series of 2D files...obviously :)

HTH
-Mathieu