[Insight-developers] reading 3D tiff (/dcm pair Mevis)

[Rashindra Manniesing]

HI Luis and others,

Thanks for your reply. I did not realize that updating 3d-party libs may be
a non-trivial task considering the multitude of supported platforms.

I would be interested to contribute,

Best regards, Rashindra.

-----Original Message-----
From: Luis Ibanez [mailto:luis.ibanez at kitware.com] 
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 23:39
To: Rashindra Manniesing
Cc: insight-developers at itk.org
Subject: Re: [Insight-developers] reading 3D tiff (/dcm pair Mevis)


Hi Rashindra,

Please note that the current version of TIFF in ITK *does*
support 3D images by using the multi-frame support.

You can save now an 3D itk::Image into a TIFF file, and you will
get the slices as the frames into a multi-frame TIFF file.



That being said, updating the TIFF (and other) libraries in the
Utilities directory is something that we could address in the
upcoming releases.

We have added your request to the list of items for the 2008-2009
roadmap of ITK:

    http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Roadmap_2008_2009

Please feel free to add any comments to the TIFF entry.
http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Roadmap_2008_2009#TIFF


Just for the record:

   Updating 3rd party libraries is easier said than done.

   Our previous experience have shown that a typical update
   will take about three weeks of effort before the dust settles
   down. This is mainly due to the need to get things working in
   all the supported platforms.



    Regards,



       Luis


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Rashindra Manniesing wrote:
> Dear all,
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> I am interested in extending the itk imageIO factor to support the 
> (Mevis) dcm/tiff file format (3D).
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> It seems that the current tiff fileformat only supports 2D files. 
> However, since ITK uses libtiff, it should be easy to extend to 3D.
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> My questions:
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> -          the current libtiff version in itk does not seem to be the 
> most recent one. Can we expect an update in the near future?
> 
> -          Same question for gdcm
> 
> -          Who is managing these libraries in itk, perhaps we can 
> communicate directly.
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> A possibility, as single user, is to simply use external libraries 
> (setting with cmake), but I suppose updating to the latest versions of 
> these packages would be beneficial for the general audience,
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> Best regards,
> 
>  
> 
> Rashindra Manniesing.
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