[Insight-developers] itk::OrientImageFilter should be deprecated?!?

[Bill Lorensen]

It is used in Slicer.

Since it has been a part of many ITK releases, you should assume that
it is used by many customers.


On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Williams, Norman K
<norman-k-williams at uiowa.edu> wrote:
> OrientImageFilter was something developed at Iowa, and as our approach to
> image processing has matured, and as ITK's support of physical-space
> processing has become more consistent, should it be deprecated or removed?
>
> It's sort of OK as a concise way to physically re-arrange voxels in index
> space, but its major crime is this: It forces images from whatever
> orientation is specified in their Dir Cosines on disk, to the nearest
> orientation parallel to the global axes. In numeric terms, the resulting
> dir cosines will be only 1s and 0s.  This is a serious loss of important
> image information.
>
> Ideas? Is it used anywhere besides 'dusty deck' Iowa applications?
>
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