[ITK] [ITK-users] Surface extraction problem

[Dr. Roman Grothausmann]

Hi Francisco,


What You try to achieve is related to this publication:
http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3391
A paraview plugin is also planned.

Regards
Roman


On 02/07/14 15:19, Francisco López-Franca wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> I've created a 3D cylinder by using the class CylinderSpatialObject. After
> that, I pass the cylinder object to an object of class
> SpatialObjectToImageFilter in order to prepare the spatial object to be
> written to file.
> I've set both the cylinder object and the image filter a value of 0 for
> background and 255 for foreground.
> Finally, I pass, as input, the image filter output to an image file writer
> (ImageFileWriter) object to save it to file (Nifti format, for instance).
> The result is the attached "cilindro.jpg" figure.
>
> Up to here, all is ok. The problem comes next.
> What I want is to extract the surface of the 3D cylinder. I search for the
> web and found an example, from which I followed the implementation.
> I copy below my code and attach the result of the surface extraction
> ("cilindro_superficie.jpg"), hoping that anyone see if I am committing any
> error. I expected just the boundary of the 3D cylinder (with no inside
> points), and it seems like the bounding box of the cylinder what I've got
> including the inside points.
>
> Thank you very much and my best regards.
>
> My code is (I've erased the obvious code):
>
>
>      typedef itk::Image< PixelType, Dimension > ImageType;
>      typedef itk::Mesh<double, 3> MeshType;
>
>      typedef itk::ImageFileReader< ImageType > ReaderType;
>      ReaderType::Pointer reader = ReaderType::New();
>      reader->SetFileName(
> inputFileName);
>
>          reader->Update();
>
>      typedef itk::BinaryMask3DMeshSource< ImageType, MeshType >
> MeshSourceType;
>      MeshSourceType::Pointer meshSource = MeshSourceType::New();
>
>      meshSource->SetObjectValue( 255);
>
>      meshSource->SetInput( reader->GetOutput() );
>
>          meshSource->Update();
>
>      typedef itk::MeshSpatialObject<MeshType> SpatialObjectType;
>      SpatialObjectType::Pointer mesh = SpatialObjectType::New();
>      mesh->SetMesh(meshSource->GetOutput());
>
>      typedef itk::SpatialObjectToImageFilter<SpatialObjectType, ImageType>
> MeshFilterType;
>      MeshFilterType::Pointer meshFilter = MeshFilterType::New();
>
>      meshFilter->SetSize(size);
>      meshFilter->SetOutsideValue(0);
>      meshFilter->SetInsideValue(255);
>      meshFilter->SetInput(mesh);
>
>          meshFilter->Update();
>
>      typedef itk::ImageFileWriter<ImageType> ImageWriterType;
>      ImageWriterType::Pointer imageWriter = ImageWriterType::New();
>
>      imageWriter->SetFileName(outputFileName);
>      imageWriter->SetInput(meshFilter->GetOutput());
>
>          imageWriter->Update();
>
> <http://itk-insight-users.2283740.n2.nabble.com/file/n7585840/cilindro.jpg>
> <http://itk-insight-users.2283740.n2.nabble.com/file/n7585840/cilindro_superficie.jpg>
>
>
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Dr. Roman Grothausmann

Tomographie und Digitale Bildverarbeitung
Tomography and Digital Image Analysis

Institut für Funktionelle und Angewandte Anatomie, OE 4120
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
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