[Insight-developers] Is there a definitive list of File type
suffixes?
Mark Foskey
mark_foskey@unc.edu
Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:09:48 -0500
OK, I'll put on my dunce cap for the day. A mis-remembered verbal
explanation from Stephen led me to misread each subsequent relevant
message on the subject.
Stephen R. Aylward wrote:
> Hi
>
> mha = all (header and data)
>
> mhd = header only
>
> Reality is that the internal tags have the ultimate say on where the
> data is, but the above is how I designed things...
>
> Stephen
>
>
> Mark Foskey wrote:
>
>> No, you were right, the "a" in "mha" means "apart". I thought Jim was
>> joking about that, and even sent him a response that was meant to be
>> lighthearted but was probably only confusing. (Sorry, Jim.)
>>
>> Luis Ibanez wrote:
>> >
>> > Hmmm,
>> >
>> > I probably got the (mha, mhd) order wrong....
>> >
>> > Also I think DICOM is selected with the extension ".dcm".
>> >
>> >
>> > Luis
>> >
>> >
>> > ----------------------------------------
>> >
>> > Miller, James V (Research) wrote:
>> >
>> >> 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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