[ITK] [ITK-users] Bug in itkMattesMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx ?

[Bill Lorensen]

Looks like you found a bug. Please submit a patch through gerrit:
http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK/Git/Develop

Thanks


On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 2:54 AM, Ivan Setiawan <ivans at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> Hi all,
> My name is Ivan, and currently I am developing an image registration
> software based on ITK.
> Thank you for providing such a good library!
>
> I think, I found a bug for determining the voxel's value range in
> itkMattesMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx.
>
> In the ::Initialize(void) method, the initial value of
> this->m_FixedImageTrueMax and this->m_MovingImageTrueMax should be set to
>     std::numeric_limits<typename TFixedImage::PixelType>::lowest()  /* i.e.,
> the most negative value, = -340282346638528860000000000000000000000.000000
> for float-type image */
> instead of
>     std::numeric_limits<typename TFixedImage::PixelType>::min() /* =
> 1.17549e-038 for float-type image. */
>
> The code lines are:
>     this->m_FixedImageTrueMax = std::numeric_limits<typename
> TFixedImage::PixelType>::min(); // should be lowest() instead of min()?
>     this->m_MovingImageTrueMax = std::numeric_limits<typename
> TMovingImage::PixelType>::min(); // should be lowest() instead of min()?
>
> Problem will not appear when using short-type image, but when a float-type
> image with all negative voxel's value is used as input, then the initial
> m_FixedImageTrueMax will NOT be updated to the correct negative maximum
> value.
>
> Could you please tell me your opinion?
>
> Thank you very much for your attention.
>
> Best regards,
> Ivan
>
>
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