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ITK features a powerful plugin-based IO mechanism for reading and writing images, which is covered briefly in Plugin IO mechanisms and in detail in Chapter 7 (PDF page 219) of the ITK Software Guide. The discussion in Plugin IO mechanisms also discusses how new file formats can be added existing compiled applications!
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File Formats and Pixel Types
The itk::Image<> class can be templated over virtually any pixel type, however not all file formats support all data types for reading and writing. In some cases, it may be necessary to add an itk::CastImageFilter<> to convert the output to a pixel format appropriate for the target file. It is important not to truncate the data by converting to a smaller type (ie. short -> char). In this case, the itk::RescaleIntensityImageFilter<> can be used before casting.
The following table lists the built-in file format support against each data type:
- Analyze/NIFTI
- BMP (2D only)
- DICOM
- GDCM
- GE
- GIPL
- IPL
- JPEG (2D only)
- MetaImage (mhd): raw, compressed
- Nrrd (.nhdr, .nrrd): raw or gzip compressed
- PNG (2D)
- SiemensVision
- Stimulate
- TIFF (2D only)
- VTK
Importing other file format
Movies as 3D images
From the Insight-User Amadeus:
I work exclusively in Linux and one can use mplayer - the mother of allmultimedia tools - to dump each frame in a movie clip. MPlayer understandsjust about any format under the sun and can use just about any codec aswell. E.g. to dump each frame in an avi clip to a separate png image
mplayer -vo png movie.avi
To see to what other formats one can output the frames to,
mplayer -vo help
Then, the frames dumped by mplayer can be put together into a volumeusing ImageSeriesReadWrite in InsightToolkit-2.0.0/Examples/IO/.
Itksnap Extension
Of course, in Linux and other unixes the shell understands wildcards, so with minor changes, it ImageSeriesReadWrite can be modified to worklike this:
ImageSeriesReadWrite frame*.png output.mha # or e.g. output.mhd
The input frames need not have the names that the originalImageSeriesReadWrite expects.
Converting unsupported 2D images to an ITK supported format
ImageMagick supports conversion between over 90 (typically 2D) image formats as well as some basic image processing. Operates from the command line on PCs and on *nix machines.
Metaimage Mac
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