<div>Hello,</div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>I am a beginner in ITK toolkit. Could someone tell me how to take DICOM images as input and view it through VTK. The could below is what i have used. But somehow the image is not read and a windows error comes as</div>  <div>" <B><FONT size=1></div>  <div>program.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.</div></B></FONT>  <div>"</div>  <div>The next error is "Debug assertion failed...." . Is the code written below right??</div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div># include "itkImage.h"<BR># include "itkImageFileReader.h"<BR># include "itkImageToVTKImageFilter.h"</div>  <div># include "vtkImageViewer.h"<BR># include "vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h"<BR># include "itkGDCMImageIO.h"</div>  <div>int main(int argc, char **argv)<BR>{<BR>&nbsp; typedef itk::Image&lt;unsigned short,2&gt; ImageType;<BR>&nbsp; typedef itk::ImageFileReader&lt;ImageType&gt; ReaderType;<BR>&nbsp; typedef
 itk::ImageToVTKImageFilter&lt;ImageType&gt; ConnectorType;</div>  <div>&nbsp; <BR>&nbsp; ReaderType::Pointer reader = ReaderType::New();<BR>&nbsp; ConnectorType::Pointer connector = ConnectorType::New();</div>  <div>&nbsp; <BR>&nbsp; reader-&gt;SetFileName(argv[1]);</div>  <div>&nbsp; typedef itk::GDCMImageIO ImageIOType; <BR>&nbsp; ImageIOType::Pointer gdcmImageIO = ImageIOType::New();<BR>&nbsp; reader-&gt;SetImageIO(gdcmImageIO);</div>  <div>&nbsp; try<BR>&nbsp; {<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp; reader-&gt;Update();<BR>&nbsp; }<BR>&nbsp; catch(itk::ExceptionObject &amp; e)<BR>&nbsp; {<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp; std::cerr &lt;&lt;"exception in file reader "&lt;&lt;std::endl;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp; std::cerr&lt;&lt;e&lt;&lt;std::endl;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp; return EXIT_FAILURE;<BR>&nbsp; }</div>  <div>&nbsp; connector-&gt;SetInput(reader-&gt;GetOutput());</div>  <div>&nbsp; </div>  <div>&nbsp; vtkImageViewer *viewer = vtkImageViewer::New();<BR>&nbsp; vtkRenderWindowInteractor *renderWindowInteractor =&nbsp;&nbsp;
 vtkRenderWindowInteractor::New();<BR>&nbsp; <BR>&nbsp; viewer-&gt;SetupInteractor(renderWindowInteractor);<BR>&nbsp; viewer-&gt;SetInput(connector-&gt;GetOutput());<BR>&nbsp; <BR>&nbsp; viewer-&gt;Render();<BR>&nbsp; viewer-&gt;SetColorWindow(255);<BR>&nbsp; viewer-&gt;SetColorLevel(128);<BR>&nbsp; renderWindowInteractor-&gt;Start();<BR>&nbsp; return 0;</div>  <div>&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR>}</div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>Thanks,</div>  <div>Brian</div><p>&#32;
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