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

[Kent Williams]

It wouldn't be a huge deal to add an orienter in the writer, but it 
unfortunately would

1. Require creating an image copying the data into it, reorienting it 
and copying it back out.
2. Require a switch statement on the data type to invoke the orient 
filter with the properly templated image type.

For now I think I'll have it raise an exception and suggest use of 
itk::OrientImageFilter.

I don't think this will be a big deal in 99% of applications. Given that 
ITK can read and write formats that properly capture and report image 
orientation, the only application would be when a third-party program 
only understands Analyze format.

Bill Lorensen wrote:

> 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
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