<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 July 2014 18:27, Andras Lasso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lasso@queensu.ca" target="_blank">lasso@queensu.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">As it is described at
<a href="http://www.na-mic.org/Bug/view.php?id=2173" target="_blank">http://www.na-mic.org/Bug/view.php?id=2173</a>: update of the image pose is implemented in ITK for some formats (for example for NRRD it is implemented in itkNrrdImageIO.cxx), while it is not implemented
for MetaIO (probably it should have been implemented in itkMetaImageIO.cxx).</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I see that this will not change in the near future since the bug was submitted 2 years ago. I will try to find a workaround and post updates in case it works.</div>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Butlers Home<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 29, 2014 12:03 PM<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:community@itk.org" target="_blank">community@itk.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ITK] change orientation of images with OrientImageFilter<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 29 July 2014 17:22, Bradley Lowekamp <<a href="mailto:blowekamp@mail.nih.gov" target="_blank">blowekamp@mail.nih.gov</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just because the images look the same doesn't mean the filter didn't have an effect! Does ITK-SNAP have a way to look at the orientation of the direction cosine matrix? This should be different between the two images.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> 0 0 0.5 1] is the same for LSP and RAI orientations.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My understanding of that orientation filter was that it changed the direction cosines AND the order of the pixels such that they still have the same physical location. Since you are using a viewer which is aware of this information I would
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<p class="MsoNormal">I've also checked their positions with Slicer and it yields the same interpretation. However, if what you say is true, then any visualizer should yield the same output provided that the same physical location is preserved. I still don't
understand why one would not display the image with the orientation that corresponds to its specifications.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I don't know how that orientation field in the MHA file is used... others have already chimed in on that.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Jul 29, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Butlers Home <<a href="mailto:butlershomecoffee@gmail.com" target="_blank">butlershomecoffee@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- one image has RAI as the initial orientation<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I would like to set the same orientation RAI for both images before processing them (i.e., registering them in my case). With the below mentioned code I manage to change the
orientation specified textually in the .mha files but visually they do not change. Why is that? Is the orientation changing just within the header specifications without actually changing the visualization part? For visualization I used ITK-SNAP.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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determined appropriately. I would also prefer not using them at all because, as far as I understood, they are deprecated.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>Thank you everyone for your suggestions and clarifications.<br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Butlers</div></div>
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