[Insight-developers] Streaming with ImageWriter and IORegion

[Bradley Lowekamp]

Unfortunately, I will not be there. I will  try to get a bunch of  
information into the wiki.


On Dec 29, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Luis Ibanez wrote:

>
> Great.
>
> BTW, I got the dates wrong.
> The correct dates are Jan 5th to 9th.
> (but that's still, next week)   :-)
>
>  http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/AHM_2009
>
> I'll be there from Monday to Friday morning.
>
> ---
>
> Good idea to gather the requirements and challenges before the  
> meeting.
> For that purpose, we just created a Proposal Wiki page, at:
>
> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/Proposals:Adding_Streaming_Support_in_ITK_Image_Writing
>
> We can copy here most of what Brad has already chartered.
>
> Of course, more suggestions are welcome.
>
>
>     Luis
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Stephen Aylward <Stephen.Aylward at kitware.com 
> > wrote:
> Great idea!
>
> Tell me where and when and I'll be there.
>
> Might be interesting to start with a discussion on how the current  
> process is failing / not meeting needs.
>
> s
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Luis Ibanez  
> <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> Stephen,
>
> Should we address this during the upcoming NAMIC developers meeting  ?
> (Jan 4th-8th) is not that far.
>
> The implementation of Streaming for Reading was done in one of these
> meetings. It was a lot easier by the developers of several ImageIO
> classes in the room.
>
> Heavy enforcers of backward-compatibility may also be attending this
> meeting... so all fronts will be cared for.  :-)
>
>
>   My 2 cents suggestion,
>
>
>      Luis
>
>
> ------------------------
> Stephen Aylward wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We use metaIO streaming reading and writing fairly heavily in  
> several apps.   Please let me know if you find problems or if you  
> need any help.   Several people have been adding features in the  
> past year or so, and I fear a bit of feature creap and bad coding  
> might have arisen.   Might be time for some house cleaning.
>
> My recent changes were to fix memory leaks, to improve reporting  
> regarding when streaming is or is not supported, and to fix a bug  
> when attempting to read a stream equal to the size of the entire  
> image.
>
> Also, note that changes to MetaIO cannot be committed directly to  
> Insight.   It is a locked directory in the CVS repository because  
> MetaIO in ITK and VTK share the same code which exists in a public  
> svn repository:
> https://www.kitware.com:8443/svn/KWPublic/trunk/MetaIO
>
> Changes made to the svn repository are automatically (and nearly  
> instantly) distributed to ITK and VTK.   It is a wonderfully unique  
> opportunity to annoy a huge number of open-source developers in a  
> wide range of fields with a single check-in :)
>
> Stephen
>
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Bradley Lowekamp <blowekamp at mail.nih.gov 
>  <mailto:blowekamp at mail.nih.gov>> wrote:
>
>    Hello,
>
>    I submitted MetaImageIO  as bug #8333. The streaming pipeline is
>    working just fine; MetaIO is just failing to read it under these
>    conditions. I am going to commit the compare for
>    itkMetaImageStreamingWriterIOTest2 to verify that is just not a
>    weird mac issue. Then I will try to track it down if it's a cross
>    platform issue. I am also just discovering some problems with mhd  
> vs
>    mha files too. I'm going to have to look at the interaction of a  
> few
>    things here... Not sure what's going on...
>    These problems are orthogonal to the posted enhancement
>    though. Please let me know what else you need for this enhancement.
>
>    Brad
>
>    On Dec 27, 2008, at 4:51 PM, Luis Ibanez wrote:
>
>    Bradley Lowekamp wrote:
>
>       Thirdly, before I left work for the holiday, I had an idea
>    what the  cause of itkMetaImageStreamingWriterIOTest2 not
>    producing the correct  results. I think that MetaImageIO,
>    streaming functionality does not  work with non-square voxels.
>    But I need to look into this further to  be certain. I was
>    planning on doing this on Monday.
>
>    Brad
>
>    -------------------------
>
>    Hi Brad,
>
>    I don't quite see why pixel spacing would interfere in any way with
>    the process of streaming the pixel data.
>
>    As far of the streaming process is concerned, the pixel data is  
> simply
>    an array of bytes...
>
>    It is more likely that other factors may be involved in this  
> problem.
>
>
>      Luis
>
>
>
>    ========================================================
>
>    Bradley Lowekamp
>    Lockheed Martin Contractor for
>
>    Office of High Performance Computing and Communications
>
>    National Library of Medicine
>    blowekamp at mail.nih.gov <mailto:blowekamp at mail.nih.gov>
>
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>
>
> -- 
> Stephen R. Aylward, Ph.D.
> Chief Medical Scientist
> Kitware, Inc. - North Carolina Office
> http://www.kitware.com
> (518) 371-3971 x300
>

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Bradley Lowekamp
Lockheed Martin Contractor for
Office of High Performance Computing and Communications
National Library of Medicine
blowekamp at mail.nih.gov


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