[Insight-users] segmenting dicom images

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi ilker,

You should use native 3D methods.

Using slice by slice 2D segmentation is a primitive
and outdated approach for segmentation. ITK allows
you to segment N-Dimensional images. (3D, 4D, 5D...)

In order to visualize your image (and the segmentation
you can use VTK.

Or you could also use available applications such as


       VolView       www.volview.com
       Paraview      www.paraview.org
       SCIrun        www.scirun.org
       Slicer        www.slicer.org
       SNAP          InsightApplications/SNAP
       ImageViewer   InsightApplications/ImageViewer

Examples on how to connect ITK and VTK are available at

       InsighApplications/Auxiliary/vtk
           itkReadITKImage3DSegmentShowVTK.cxx
           itkReadITKImageSegmentShowVTK.cxx
           itkReadITKImageShowSplineVTK.cxx
           itkReadITKImageShowVTK.cxx

and you should also read the tutorials

    http://www.itk.org/HTML/Tutorials.htm

in particular

               "Using ITK with VTK"
http://www.itk.org/CourseWare/Training/GettingStarted-II.pdf


You can also perform segmentation with existing applications
available in InsightApplications, such as


          SNAP
          RegionGrowing
          FastMarchingLevelSet
          GeodesicActiveContours
          ShapeDetectionLevelSet



Regards,


    Luis


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ilker hacıhaliloğlu wrote:
> hi all
> 
> I have a question about segmenting dicom series. Which one is more suitable
> 1-segmenting each slice one by one in the dicom series? i have saved the 
> series in analyze format (.hdr)
> 2-constructing a 3d volume and segmenting this volume
> 3-I saved the dicom image series into a 3d volume in analyze format. if 
> i do some segmentation in this 3d volume after the
> segmentation can i save the the result back  into dicom image format?
> 
> 4- To see the the the images in a 3D volume  do I have to use VTK?
> I am using MRIcro to see the analyze formated images. but i can not see 
> them there in 3D volume format.
> 
> cheers
> ilker
> 
> p.s.:sorry for asking so many questions but i am new to itk:(
> 
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