TubeTK/Developers FAQ

Use Compression

ITK, regretfully, doesn't write compressed images by default. You must add one line to your code, to write compressed images:

   typename ImageWriterType::Pointer writer = ImageWriterType::New();
   writer->SetFileName( outputVolume.c_str() );
   writer->SetInput( cropFilter.GetOutput() );
   writer->SetUseCompression( true );                             // ADD THIS LINE

Use Compression 2

Please store images in TubeTK/Data in a compressed format.

Baseline images

Baseline images should be stored with their tests. We'd like to keep TubeTK's modules as portable and self-contained as possible. We'll share input data by placing it in TubeTK/Data, but data specific to a particular test (e.g., baseline images) should be stored with the test. We've decided on the filesystem hierarchy

TubeTK/Applications/CLI/<myprogram>/Testing/Baselines 

for storing the baseline images for the tests for myprogram.

In particular, don't put baseline images in TubeTK/Data.