[Insight-users] [ITK Community] MHA/MHD File Format

[Matt McCormick]

Hi Jeff,

The wiki is the best source of MetaIO documentation.  Improvements to
the documentation by examining the source code are welcome.

Thanks,
Matt

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 4:55 PM, coderforlife <jeff at coderforlife.com> wrote:
> I am making a metafile (MHA/MHD) file format reader/writer. The only
> documentation on the format I can really find is at
> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/MetaIO/Documentation and it is not very good. I have
> plenty of questions and clarifications. Additionally, if there is better
> documentation that would be great too.
>
> First off, I am only supporting Image objects, so there is a lot of fields
> that I don't need to care about.
>
> 1. Since I am only accepting a single ObjectType equal to Image, are there
> any header fields which are allowed to appear more than once?
> 2. For enumerated types (like ObjectType, ElementType), is capitalization
> important? For example, is image and Image both acceptable? Are MET_UCHAR
> and met_uchar both acceptable?
> 3. What does the data look like when BinaryData is False?
> 4. Is CompressedData=True allowed with HeaderSize=-1?
> 5. Is HeaderSize allowed with ElementDataFile=LOCAL?
> 6. Is ElementNumberOfChannels allowed when not using MET_*_ARRAY types?
> 7. What is the difference between ElementByteOrderMSB and
> BinaryDataByteOrderMSB?
> 8. How is the Rotation/Orientation/TransformMatrix saved in the header? I
> know they are a matrix, but are they stored on a single line, ... etc?
> 9. When saving other fields that are arrays (like DimSize), is anything
> besides spaces allowed as separators?
> 10. With ElementDataFile=LOCAL, LIST, etc does the LOCAL/LIST need to be
> capitalized?
>
> Thanks!
> Jeff
>
>
>
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