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

[Mark Foskey]

Of course, people should if possible avoid using suffixes associated to 
the common standard 2D image formates, such as .jp(e)g, .bmp, .gif, 
.tif, etc.  Of course, there are a ton of formats, and avoiding every 
obscure format out there would be silly.  But the widely-used ones are 
likely to be supported eventually.  Even if they aren't supported 
within itk proper, people will want to create their own readers that 
fit into the imageio framework.  So it's a judgment call that you can make.

Luis Ibanez wrote:
> 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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