[ITK-users] How can I remove overlapped MRI DICOM images from the data?

[Dženan Zukić]

Your solution will depend on what positions are assigned to images arising
from different coils. I suspect you will have to manipulate position and
orientation. Take a look at this example and links therein:
http://itk.org/ITKExamples/src/Filtering/ImageGrid/AppendTwo3DVolumes/Documentation.html

HTH

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:03 PM, lucky via Insight-users <
insight-users at itk.org> wrote:

> I have a data set of MRI DICOM images that was scanned using Torso/Body
> Coil.
> We used multiple slabs of the coil to scanned the full arm. In the
> finalized
> data, we have the overlapped region/images of sequences, we want to remove
> those overlapped images from the data set. Of course, we will want to use
> the high quality image and discard the noisy one if there is a overlap of
> two.
>
> My first question is,
>
> How can we distinguish the overlapped image from the DICOM data set? There
> is one metadata "0020|0032 "Image Position Patient" that can be used for
> this, but is there anything else that I can use?
>
> My second question is,
>
> Is there any way/algorithm in ITK that can remove/delete the overlapped
> images and save after that as new data set? I would also need to rearrange
> the "vtkImageData*" in order to visualize the final data set without any
> overlapped regions?
>
> third question,
>
> Is there anything similar to what I want to achieve in 3D Slicer 4.4.
>
> I have my own visualizer that is written in C++, ITK, VTK, so it would be
> great if I can use something from ITK. Can anyone point me out what
> features
> of ITK do I need to consider to remove/delete overlapped images and save
> the
> remaining images as a new data set? I am also confused about what images do
> I need to remove Axial only? Images were scanned as Axial.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
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