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    Hi David,<br>
    <br>
    Thanks, you were right. I was able to visualise the full point cloud
    in a VTK window using the vtkVertexGlyphFilter on the output of
    vtkThreshold. I was then able to adapt the PCA demo on the wiki
    (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Utilities/PCADemo">http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Utilities/PCADemo</a>) to my
    purposes.<br>
    <br>
    Thanks again for the help and best wishes,<br>
    Andrew<br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/11/14 19:21, David Gobbi wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CANwS1=EAff4Y2_-iao58Q=9w2pCucs2dsBvrNb9OwnrutOELjQ@mail.gmail.com"
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      <div dir="ltr">Hi Andrew,
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        <div>My best guess is that the internal points are there, but
          ParaView is only showing the surface.  From python you can
          call GetNumberOfPoints() on the data set to check if the
          number of points matches what you expect.</div>
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        <div> - David</div>
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      <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
        <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:25 AM,
          Andrew Crozier <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:andrew.crozier@medunigraz.at" target="_blank">andrew.crozier@medunigraz.at</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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            <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> I wrote it out with
              vtkUnstructuredGridWriter and loaded it up in Paraview.
              Showing it there with a 'Points' or '3D Glyphs'
              representation shows only vertices on the external surface
              of the specified region.<br>
              <br>
              (Python) code I used to generate:<br>
              <br>
              tf = vtk.vtkThreshold()<br>
              tf.SetInput(img)<br>
              tf.ThresholdBetween(1.5,2.5)<br>
              tf.Update()<br>
              op = tf.GetOutput()<br>
              <br>
              writer = vtk.vtkUnstructuredGridWriter()<br>
              writer.SetFileName('thresh.vtk')<br>
              writer.SetInput(op)<br>
              writer.Write()<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
                  <br>
                  Andrew</font></span>
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                <div class="h5"><br>
                  <br>
                  <div>On 17/11/14 17:40, David Gobbi wrote:<br>
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                    <div dir="ltr">Hi Andrew,
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                      <div>It should export all the points in the
                        volume, as long as they are within the applied
                        thresholds.  What is your evidence that it's
                        only exporting the boundary?</div>
                      <div><br>
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                      <div> - David</div>
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                      <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at
                        9:34 AM, Andrew Crozier <span dir="ltr"><<a
                            moz-do-not-send="true"
                            href="mailto:andrew.crozier@medunigraz.at"
                            target="_blank">andrew.crozier@medunigraz.at</a>></span>
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                          <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi
                            David,<br>
                            <br>
                            Thanks for the suggestion. I looked at the
                            vtkThreshold filer, however it appears to
                            export the boundary of the thresholded
                            volume, whereas I require all points inside
                            the volume. Have you any idea of how to
                            achieve that?<br>
                            <br>
                            BW,<br>
                            Andrew
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                              <div><br>
                                <br>
                                <div>On 17/11/14 17:16, David Gobbi
                                  wrote:<br>
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                                  <div dir="ltr">Hi Andrew,
                                    <div><br>
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                                    <div>The vtkThreshold filter will
                                      extract only the cells with the
                                      desired</div>
                                    <div>scalar values, and will output
                                      them as an unstructured grid.  It</div>
                                    <div>isn't exactly what you want
                                      because it extracts cells, rather
                                      than</div>
                                    <div>points, but it might be worth a
                                      shot.</div>
                                    <div><br>
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                                    <div> - David</div>
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                                      <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
                                        <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon,
                                          Nov 17, 2014 at 8:28 AM,
                                          Andrew Crozier <span
                                            dir="ltr"><<a
                                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                                              href="mailto:andrew.crozier@medunigraz.at"
                                              target="_blank">andrew.crozier@medunigraz.at</a>></span>
                                          wrote:<br>
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                                            solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
                                            <br>
                                            I am trying to evaluate the
                                            principal components of a
                                            strucutre in a 3D volume
                                            image, to determine its
                                            spatial alignment for use in
                                            an automatic processing
                                            pipeline.<br>
                                            <br>
                                            The input is a vtkImageData,
                                            with multiple integer values
                                            (say, 0, 1, 2 and 3), and I
                                            want to perform PCA on the
                                            positions of all voxels with
                                            value 2, for example.<br>
                                            <br>
                                            I have looked at
                                            vtkPCAAnalysisFilter, and
                                            this requires an input of
                                            vtkPointSet.
                                            vtkImageDataToPointSet
                                            converts a vtkImageData to a
                                            vtkStructuredGrid, however I
                                            expect this to include all
                                            points in the original
                                            image. At the moment I seem
                                            to be missing some way of
                                            filtering out the points
                                            other than those of value 2.<br>
                                            <br>
                                            Any help provided for this
                                            would be greatly
                                            appreciated!<br>
                                            <br>
                                            Best wishes,<br>
                                            Andrew Crozier<br>
                                            <br>
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                                <div>-- <br>
                                  <hr> <b>Andrew Crozier</b><br>
                                  <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                    href="mailto:andrew.crozier@medunigraz.at"
                                    target="_blank">andrew.crozier@medunigraz.at</a><br>
                                  <br>
                                  Postdoctoral Researcher<br>
                                  Institute for Biophysics<br>
                                  Medical University of Graz</div>
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                  <div>-- <br>
                    <hr> <b>Andrew Crozier</b><br>
                    <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:andrew.crozier@medunigraz.at"
                      target="_blank">andrew.crozier@medunigraz.at</a><br>
                    <br>
                    Postdoctoral Researcher<br>
                    Institute for Biophysics<br>
                    Medical University of Graz</div>
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    <div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
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      <b>Andrew Crozier</b><br>
      <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:andrew.crozier@medunigraz.at">andrew.crozier@medunigraz.at</a><br>
      <br>
      Postdoctoral Researcher<br>
      Institute for Biophysics<br>
      Medical University of Graz</div>
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