[Insight-users] Deformation field is not applied correctly when using WarpImageFilter

Steve Lancey steve.lancey at gmail.com
Sat Mar 27 19:48:07 EDT 2010


Hi Luis,

I am still struggling with this, do you have any ideas?

Thanks,

Steve

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Steve Lancey <steve.lancey at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Luis,
>
> thanks for your answer:
>
> 1)
> >>In the code that you posted, we see that you are
> >>reading the deformation field from a file and passing
> >>it to the WrapImageFilter:
> >>    warper->SetDeformationField( fieldReader->GetOutput() );
> >>Could you please describe how you generated that file ?
> I am using the following code:
>
> typedef itk::fem::FEMRegistrationFilter<ImageType,ImageType>
> RegistrationType;
> ...
> ...
> ...
>   RegistrationType::Pointer registrationFilter = RegistrationType::New();
> ...
> ...
> ...
>   registrationFilter->WriteWarpedImage(
>         (registrationFilter->GetResultsFileName()).c_str());
>
> 2)
> >>Did you save in there the vector image returned by the
> >>FEMRegistrationFilter via the method
> >>            FieldType* GetDeformationField()   ?
> ...
> ...
> ...
> registrationFilter->WriteDisplacementFieldMultiComponent();
>
> Please let me know if you need additional information.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> Thanks for your detailed description of the problem.
>>
>>
>> In the code that you posted, we see that you are
>> reading the deformation field from a file and passing
>> it to the WrapImageFilter:
>>
>>     warper->SetDeformationField( fieldReader->GetOutput() );
>>
>>
>> Could you please describe how you generated that file ?
>>
>>
>> Did you save in there the vector image returned by the
>> FEMRegistrationFilter via the method
>>
>>             FieldType* GetDeformationField()   ?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Also the warped image that you are using as reference
>> for comparison... did you generated this image by
>> calling the method :
>>
>>  warpedImage =
>>    femRegistration->WarpImage( movingImage )   ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Please let us know,
>>
>>
>>     Thanks
>>
>>
>>          Luis
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Steve Lancey <steve.lancey at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> > I have been using itk for quite some time, mainly the FEM package. I run
>> FEM
>> > registration on 3D Volumes with around 100 iteration. As a result of the
>> > registration procedure, the warped image file and the multi component
>> > deformation field are stored.
>> > When visualizing the warped image + deformation field in Paraview it
>> appears
>> > to be correct.
>> > The problem I am facing is the following:
>> > I want to manually warp the moving image to obtain the registered image
>> > (moving + deformation field = registered image)
>> > I am using the WarpImageFilter, more or less the same code that is used
>> in
>> > the FEMRegistrationFilter. I am unable to reproduce the same result, it
>> > seems the image has been barely 'warped' when visualizing the result.
>> There
>> > is a big difference between the warped image obtained through the
>> > FEMRegistrationFilter and by manually warping it.
>> > Is my assumption correct that the Deformation field returned from the
>> > FEMRegistrationFilter holds the total deformation and not only the
>> > deformation of the last iteration.
>> > This is the code I am working with (it is not optimized)
>> >
>> > #if defined(_MSC_VER)
>> > #pragma warning ( disable : 4786 )
>> > #endif
>> > #include "itkImageFileReader.h"
>> > #include "itkImageFileWriter.h"
>> > #include "itkMinimumMaximumImageFilter.h"
>> > #include "itkShiftScaleImageFilter.h"
>> > #include "itkImageRegionIterator.h"
>> >
>> > #include "itkCastImageFilter.h"
>> > #include "itkWarpImageFilter.h"
>> > #include "itkLinearInterpolateImageFunction.h"
>> > #include "itkSquaredDifferenceImageFilter.h"
>> > #include "itkCheckerBoardImageFilter.h"
>> > #include "itkTimeProbe.h"
>> > #include "itkImageRegionIteratorWithIndex.h"
>> > #include "itkPointSet.h"
>> > #include <fstream>
>> > #include "itkCastImageFilter.h"
>> > int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
>> > {
>> >     if( argc < 4 )
>> >     {
>> >         std::cerr << "Missing Parameters " << std::endl;
>> >         std::cerr << "Usage: " << argv[0];
>> >         std::cerr << " fixedImagefile movingImageFile deformField.vtk ";
>> >         std::cerr << " outputImageFile " << std::endl;
>> >         return 1;
>> >     }
>> >
>> >     const unsigned int Dimension = 3;
>> >     typedef float PixelType;
>> >
>> >     typedef itk::Image< PixelType, Dimension >  FixedImageType;
>> >     typedef itk::ImageFileReader< FixedImageType > FixedImageReaderType;
>> >     FixedImageReaderType::Pointer fixedImageReader =
>> > FixedImageReaderType::New();
>> >     fixedImageReader->SetFileName( argv[1] );
>> >
>> >     typedef itk::Image< PixelType, Dimension >  MovingImageType;
>> >     typedef itk::ImageFileReader< MovingImageType >
>> MovingImageReaderType;
>> >     MovingImageReaderType::Pointer movingImageReader =
>> > MovingImageReaderType::New();
>> >     movingImageReader->SetFileName( argv[2] );
>> >     typedef itk::Vector< float, Dimension >    VectorPixelType;
>> >     typedef itk::Image<  VectorPixelType, Dimension >
>> DeformationFieldType;
>> >     typedef itk::ImageFileReader< DeformationFieldType >
>>  FieldReaderType;
>> >     FieldReaderType::Pointer fieldReader = FieldReaderType::New();
>> >     fieldReader->SetFileName( argv[3] );
>> >
>> >    try {
>> >     fieldReader->Update();
>> > movingImageReader->Update();
>> > fixedImageReader->Update();
>> >    }
>> >    catch ( itk::ExceptionObject & err )
>> >    {
>> >     std::cerr << "ExceptionObject caught !" << std::endl;
>> >     std::cerr << err << std::endl;
>> >     return -1;
>> >     }
>> >
>> >
>> >     typedef itk::WarpImageFilter<FixedImageType,
>> > MovingImageType,DeformationFieldType  >     WarperType;
>> >     WarperType::Pointer warper = WarperType::New();
>> > typedef WarperType::CoordRepType WarperCoordRepType;
>> > typedef itk::LinearInterpolateImageFunction<MovingImageType,
>> > WarperCoordRepType  >  InterpolatorType;
>> >     InterpolatorType::Pointer interpolator = InterpolatorType::New();
>> >     FixedImageType::Pointer fixedImage = fixedImageReader->GetOutput();
>> > FixedImageType::Pointer warpedImage;
>> >  warper->SetInput( movingImageReader->GetOutput() );
>> >       warper->SetDeformationField( fieldReader->GetOutput() );
>> >       warper->SetInterpolator( interpolator );
>> >       warper->SetOutputOrigin( fixedImage->GetOrigin() );
>> >       warper->SetOutputSpacing( fixedImage->GetSpacing() );
>> >       warper->SetOutputDirection( fixedImage->GetDirection() );
>> >  MovingImageType::PixelType padValue = 0;
>> >       warper->SetEdgePaddingValue( padValue );
>> >      warper->Update();
>> > warpedImage = warper->GetOutput();
>> >     /*typedef itk::ImageFileWriter< MovingImageType >  WriterType;
>> >
>> >     WriterType::Pointer writer =  WriterType::New();
>> >     writer->SetFileName( argv[4] );
>> >     writer->SetInput( warper->GetOutput()   );
>> >     writer->Update();*/
>> >
>> >
>> >   typedef itk::MinimumMaximumImageFilter<MovingImageType>
>> MinMaxFilterType;
>> >   MinMaxFilterType::Pointer minMaxFilter = MinMaxFilterType::New();
>> >   minMaxFilter->SetInput( warpedImage );
>> >   minMaxFilter->Update();
>> >   float min = minMaxFilter->GetMinimum();
>> >   double shift = -1.0 * static_cast<double>( min );
>> >   double scale = static_cast<double>( minMaxFilter->GetMaximum() );
>> >   scale += shift;
>> >   scale = 255.0 / scale;
>> >   typedef itk::ShiftScaleImageFilter<MovingImageType, MovingImageType>
>> > FilterType;
>> >   FilterType::Pointer filter = FilterType::New();
>> >   filter->SetInput( warpedImage );
>> >   filter->SetShift( shift );
>> >   filter->SetScale( scale );
>> >   filter->Update();
>> >
>> >   typedef itk::Image<PixelType,Dimension>
>>  WriteImageType;
>> >   typedef itk::CastImageFilter<MovingImageType,WriteImageType>
>> CasterType1;
>> >   CasterType1::Pointer caster1 = CasterType1::New();
>> >   caster1->SetInput(filter->GetOutput());
>> >   caster1->Update();
>> >   typedef itk::ImageFileWriter<WriteImageType> WriterType;
>> >   WriterType::Pointer writer = WriterType::New();
>> >   writer->SetFileName(argv[4]);
>> >   writer->SetInput(caster1->GetOutput() );
>> >   writer->Write();
>> >     return 0;
>> > }
>> >
>> >
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