[Insight-users] dicom files with invisible background

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Luca,

It is certainly possible,

You could do:

1) Segment the background
2) Replace it with a value that is not present in the inside of the body
3) Convert the image to VTK
4) Convert the vtkImage to poly data
5) Threshold the polydata


You will end up with a polydata with values in
the nodes (taken from the image) and that has
the outline of the body.

Note that only (1),(2) and (3) are topics for this mailing list.
Topics (4) and (5) will be better addressed in the VTK users list.



    Regards,


        Luis



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Luca Ramundo wrote:
> hi all..
> I'd like to know if there is a way to visualize my dicom files with 
> invisible background. In other words I'd like to visualize
> only the part of the patient's body without the black background. Is 
> there possible?
> thanks,
> Luca
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