[Insight-users] finding critical points.

[Liam Kurmos]

How to reliably find critical points with ITK?

Liam


On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Liam Kurmos
<quantum.leaf at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear ITK list,
>
> I've been following this list for a while and looking forward to the
> opportunity to use ITK in the PhD research project i'm working on,
> which has finally arrived.
>
> Currently I want to compute the critical points in a volume data set.
> (ie find the saddle and extrema points).
> I think this can be done easily with ITK, if someone with ITK
> experience can tell me which classes i should use to quickly find
> these points it I would be very grateful.
>
> At the moment I just need the positions of the critical points. In the
> future I will need to compute the full Contour Tree (cf:
> http://www.csi.ucd.ie/staff/hcarr/home/research/publications/contourtreealgorithm.pdf
> ) which describes the structure of inter-relationship of the critical
> points. ITK doesn't have contour tree construction, so at some point I
> may have to implement Contour Tree construction myself. Would it be
> desirable to have contour tree construction in ITK? Or is this outside
> the scope of 'Registration and Segmentation'?
>
> Liam
>