[Insight-users] 3D Segmentation Mask

[Cameron Burnett]

After typing a gigantic email showing all the test results, and the fact that the new stuff did nothing; I decided to try flipping the vtk Dicom object's Z axis once more. I had tried it previously and it did nothing. To my surprise it actually worked this time! I don't understand why I have to flip BOTH the y axis and the z axis, but at least it does what its supposed to now.

Maybe it was a combination of things. I don't know.

I've just got 1 question. I've changed my images to OrientedImages, just because I thought that might help. I don't see how it's oriented though, because in all the examples nothing is ever set in order to orientate them to anything. How are they different to normal Images?

Thanks heaps for your help Luis. It actually helped me understand that my problem wasn't, in order for me to figure out what it was.



> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 14:43:53 -0400
> From: luis.ibanez at kitware.com
> To: w_e_b_m_a_s_t_e_r_6_9 at hotmail.com
> CC: insight-users at itk.org
> Subject: Re: [Insight-users] 3D Segmentation Mask
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Cameron,
> 
> Thanks for the additional comments.
> 
> The flipping of the Y axis should be ok, since
> it takes care of matching VTK and ITK coordinates.
> (but it is good to keep it in mind, in case it
>   is producing secondary effects...)
> 
> 
> ------
> 
> I'm concerned about your comment indicating that
> you change the image origin both after reading it
> and after converting it to VTK.
> 
> If you are doing this "manually", this may be
> part of the problem.
> 
> When an image is produced as the output of a filter
> you shouldn't modify its metadata, unless you first
> disconnect the image from the filter.
> 
> If the image is produced by a filter, then you should
> use the ChangeInformationImageFilter.
> 
> -----
> 
> Direction cosines are used in ITK (and DICOM) for
> indicating the orientation of the image slices
> with respect to an base coordinate system. In your
> case they are set to identity, so... they are not
> involved in the problem that you are observing.
> 
> 
> -----
> 
> 
> The print out of the image->Print() methods looks
> fine. The relevant pieces are:
> 
>    BufferedRegion:
>      Dimension: 3
>      Index: [0, 0, 0]
>      Size: [512, 512, 342]
> 
> Spacing: [0.468, 0.468, 1]
>    Origin: [0, 0, 0]
>    Direction:
>           1 0 0
>           0 1 0
>           0 0 1
> 
> ---
> 
> Now what we will need is a chain of print outs
> of coordinates of your seed point from the moment
> that you acquire it in VTK to the moment you use
> it to query the PhysicalPointToIndex() method of
> the image.
> 
> In one of those steps the proper coordinates
> of the seed point are getting lost.
> 
> Please insert print out for those coordinates
> in your code, and set to the mailing list
> what you find.
> 
> 
>     Thanks
> 
> 
>        Luis
> 


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