[Insight-users] Equivalent of vtkContourFilter in ITK?

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Kent,

If you want to obtain a Mesh as output,
then you may want to look at this filter:

http://www.itk.org/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1BinaryMask3DMeshSource.html


    Regards,


        Luis


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kent williams wrote:
> That looks mostly appropriate to this application except for this
> "itk::SpeedFunctionToPathFilter expects path information (consisting
> of start, end, and optional waypoints)..."
> 
> The vtkContourFilter family of filters doesn't require any input
> points, it just autonomously finds the outline contours without user
> intervention.
> 
> This is one of those cases where VTK and ITK have complementary functions.
> 
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Gaëtan Lehmann
> <gaetan.lehmann at jouy.inra.fr> wrote:
> 
>>Hi Kent,
>>
>> Perhaps this is what you want ?
>>
>>
>>http://www.insight-journal.org/InsightJournalManager/view_publication.php?back=search.php%3Ftexte%3Dpincus&pubid=72
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Gaëtan
>>
>>
>> Le 25 avr. 08 à 18:49, kent williams a écrit :
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I'm currently using vtkContourFilter to convert a binary image into a
>>>set of contour polylines for my image tracing application.  So I was
>>>wondering, is there an all-ITK way to do the same thing? i.e.
>>>
>>>BinaryImage ---> ??? ---> set of polylines defining outline of mask
>>
>>regions.
>>
>>>In my particular case, I'm looking for contours on 2D slices of a 3D
>>
>>image.
>>
>>>I looked around for a while in the ITK documentation and saw nothing like
>>
>>this.
>>
>>>The main reason to want to do this is that while my particular
>>>application is going to require VTK anyway, there are non-interactive
>>>applications for this sort of thing that doesn't need to drag VTK
>>>along for any other reason...
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>>
>> --
>> Gaëtan Lehmann
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>>
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