[Insight-developers] PixelTypes in BinaryImageToLabelMapFilter

Gaëtan Lehmann gaetan.lehmann at jouy.inra.fr
Wed Jul 8 12:32:46 EDT 2009


Le 8 juil. 09 à 18:26, Gaëtan Lehmann a écrit :

>
> Le 8 juil. 09 à 17:42, Luis Ibanez a écrit :
>
>>
>> Hi Gaetan,
>>
>> We are preparing to move into Code/Review the class
>>
>>   itkBinaryImageToLabelMapFilter
>>
>> from your paper
>>
>>    http://hdl.handle.net/1926/584
>>    http://www.insight-journal.org/browse/publication/176
>>
>> and we are looking at the declarations of
>>
>>     itkSetMacro(BackgroundValue, OutputPixelType);   versus
>>     itkSetMacro(ForegroundValue, InputPixelType);
>>
>> at first sight it we were expecting both values to refer
>> to the same pixel type.
>>
>> Looking at the code, the background value is used to  set
>> the background value of the output LabelMap, and to
>> make comparisons against an unsigned long int.
>>
>> The foreground value, on the other hand, is used for comparisons
>> against input image pixels.
>>
>> Can we suggest to rename this variables as:
>>
>>         OutputBackgroundValue  and
>>         InputForegroundValue
>>
>>
>> Please let us know if you see a drawback to this change,
>>
>
>
> Hi Luis,
>
> That changes makes the meaning of the attribute much clear.
>
> The only drawback I see is the larger name. Do you think that  
> "Value" can be removed without changing the meaning, in order to  
> make it shorter?
>
>  OutputBackground
>  InputForeground
>
> Thank you for working on that contribution,
>

Have you redownloaded the code from http://voxel.jouy.inra.fr/darcs/contrib-itk/binaryAttributeMorphology/binaryAttributeMorphology.tar.gz 
  ?
I've fixed a bug recently in that class.

Regards,

Gaëtan

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