[Insight-developers] Is there a definitive list of File type suffixes?

Miller, James V (Research) millerjv@crd.ge.com
Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:24:55 -0500


I thought mha was "all" (header and data) in one file :)

DICOM is not triggered by extension but if we do a DICOM
write it will be.

Eventually, we'll have jpg, jpeg, (and probably tif, tiff)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luis Ibanez [mailto:luis.ibanez@kitware.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 10:18 AM
> To: Kent Williams
> Cc: Insight Developers List
> Subject: Re: [Insight-developers] Is there a definitive list of File
> type suffixes?
> 
> 
> Hi Kent,
> 
> That's good point,
> 
> We don't have a centralized list of file extensions.
> They are buried now in the code of each ImageIO.
> 
> Let's try to reconstruct the list here:
> 
> 1) .mhd  = MetaImage single file
> 2) .mha  = MetaImage (header + raw) 2 files
> 3) .vtk  = VTK format
> 4) .gipl = GIPL
> 5) .raw  = RAW format (I suggest we deprecate this one...)
> 6)  ???  = VOL
> 7)  ???  = Analyze
> 8) .png  = PNG format
> 9) .pgm  = PGM format (to be converted in an ImageIO class)
> 
> 10)   other ?
> 
> 
> Please if someone can help to fill in the blanks,
> that will be great.
> 
> 
>     Luis
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Kent Williams wrote:
> > I'm getting ready to add a new image file format for Octree 
> encoded images.
> > We're still working out what the internal file format 
> organization, but I had 
> > a simple question:  So as to not confuse ImageIO, we need 
> to choose a file 
> > extension distinct from all the others supported.  Is there 
> a list somewhere 
> > of all the filetype extensions?
> > 
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