[Insight-users] Pipelining - Loading MINC Image with VTK and Applying Registration in ITK

[M. Wirtzfeld]

Morning, afternoon, evening,

I need to apply ITK registration classes using a MINC volume and a  
DICOM slice.  Both the ITK and VTK toolkits are new to me.

I have the Mattes Mutual Information registration class working (from  
the ITK Software Guide example) by converting the MINC volume and  
DICOM slice to the Raw MetaImage format.  However, I would like to  
use the original MINC and DICOM files without conversion, using them  
natively in a consolidate piece of source-code.

I am able to read the MINC volume using the VTK class  
"vtkMINCImageReader".  I would like to pipeline this volume into ITK,  
but I am not sure how to proceed.  I have come across the ITK  
"VTKImageToImageFilter" but I'm not sure if this is appropriate.

I also need to ensure that the final MINC volume in ITK and slice  
have the same "frame of reference" using their direction-cosine  
values.  I am aware of the article by Kent Williams, but the devil is  
in the details and I am not sure how to proceed.


Thanks,

Michael.