[Insight-developers] RE: ConfidenceConnected filter + Multiple seeds

Miller, James V (Research) millerjv@crd.ge.com
Fri, 4 Apr 2003 08:34:36 -0500


Sounds good to me.  

A user could either click a few points or the user could select a
"region" of image (or seed it with a mask).



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luis Ibanez [mailto:luis.ibanez@kitware.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 7:16 PM
> To: Miller, James V (Research); Insight-Developers
> Subject: ConfidenceConnected filter + Multiple seeds
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> It seems that the ConfidenceConnectedImageFilter can
> be modified to take advantage of multiple seeds.
> 
> Now that the FloodFill iterator is using a queue data
> structure, using multiple seeds will actually grow
> multiple wavefronts simultaneously and will fuse them
> together when they get in touch.
> 
> - Do you see any mayor downside in doing this modification
>    on the filter ?
> 
> - Would you mind if I implement this change ?
> 
> 
> BTW: It is really nice to use this filter as a Volview
> plugin and it is probably the first one to try once images
> have been smoothed with edge-preserving filters.
> 
> 
>    Luis
> 
>