[IGSTK-Developers] Image file format

[Andinet Enquobahrie]

Julien Jomier wrote:

> Andinet,
>
> The liver MR has been converted to isotropic voxels and saved as 
> MetaImage. Looking at the igstkMRImageReader class, this one derives 
> from DICOM image reader, so right now I don't know how to read an MR 
> volume using MetaImage.
> Should I create an igstkMetaImageMRImageReader class?

Julien,

As we chatted on IM and agreed,  I think igstkMetaImageReader class 
templated by image type would be fine unless the other developers think 
of a different approach.

-Andinet

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> The ultrasound images are in the spatialobject file format right now. 
> I can try to convert them to metaImage or just read them directly 
> since IGSTK seems to support several file formats.
>
> Let me know,
>
> Julien
>
> Andinet Enquobahrie wrote:
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>> Julien,
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>> The image reader classes are designed in such a way that we can also 
>> support non-DICOM images. The Dicom image reader class is derived 
>> from the "ImageReader" superclass which you can use to derive a 
>> MetaImageReader class.  Are your Ultrasound images in MetaImage forma?
>>
>> -Andinet
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>> -Andinet
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>>> Hello,
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>>> Are we going to support only DICOM for image reading?
>>> I've a MetaImage file that I want to read in (from the original 
>>> dicom but preprocessed). I can convert it to DICOM but I'd rather 
>>> read it in directly.
>>>
>>> thanks for the input,
>>>
>>> Julien
>>>
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