[Insight-developers] Analyze 6.5 file format error -- proper handling?

[Bill Lorensen]

Probably throw an exception. The exception could explain how to fix the
problem using OrientationImageFilter. Another possibilioty is to put a mode
in the writer to apply the OrientationImageFilter if the orientation is
incorrect.

Bill

On 4/7/06, Kent Williams <kent at psychiatry.uiowa.edu> wrote:
>
> The Analyze image file format only supports 3 different orientations
> (out of a possible 48). Currently if you feed it an image oriented other
> than those three ways to write to disk, it silently writes it out with a
> valid (but incorrect) orientation code.
>
> Hans Johnson (my boss) suggested that it should be an error to try and
> write a file out with a misleading orientation code.  But I'm not sure
> what the right solution should be:
>
> 1. Print an error message and raise an exception?
> 2. Print a warning message, and write out the incorrect file?
> 3. ???
>
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