[Insight-users] SimpleITK and DTI

[Francois Budin]

Hello,

Thanks for your quick answer. I was just playing around with SimpleITK 
and trying to discover how to use it. At that point, I was just trying 
to see the value of a chosen voxel with GetPixel(), so even if the DTI 
was opened as a vector image that would still have worked for me. Doing 
simple operations on Diffusion Tensor images, such as masking, could be 
useful to me when the development of a complex software is not necessary.

Francois

On 06/06/2013 10:55 AM, Bradley Lowekamp wrote:
> Hello,
>
> SimpleITK does not have currently have support for images of tensors. I would like to add some basic support for this in the near future.
>
> This is where you exception is coming from:
> https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITK/blob/master/Code/IO/src/sitkImageReaderBase.cxx#L86
>
> What were you hoping to be able to do in SimpleITK? What algorithms/filters were you hoping to do?
>
> I am hopping for some users to help drive and test this addition to SimpleITK.
>
> Thanks,
> Brad
>
>
> On Jun 6, 2013, at 10:43 AM, Francois Budin <fbudin at unc.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was trying to open a Diffusion Tensor Image (DTI) file using SimpleITK (in a python console) and I got the following error: ========================================================= [30]: image=sitk.ReadImage( "/rodent/FAS_sulik/DTI2013/Processing/N50848/2-Registration/N50848_dwi_MFcorrected_shuffled_dti_f_reg.nrrd") --------------------------------------------------------------------------- RuntimeError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-30-99f941f49428> in <module>() ----> 1 image=sitk.ReadImage( "/rodent/FAS_sulik/DTI2013/Processing/N50848/2-Registration/N50848_dwi_MFcorrected_shuffled_dti_f_reg.nrrd") /NIRAL/devel/linux/Python/ThirdParty/SimpleITK-0.6.1-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/SimpleITK.pyc in ReadImage(*args) 4388 4389 """ -> 4390 return _SimpleITK.ReadImage(*args) 4391 class HashImageFilter(_object): 4392 """ RuntimeError: Exception thrown in SimpleITK ReadImage: /scratch/blowekamp/dashboards/Ubuntu10-release/SimpleITK/Code/IO/src/sitkImageReaderBase.cxx:104: sitk::ERROR: Unknown PixelType: 9 ==============================================
>> Is there a way to read DTI with SimpleITK? It reads well Diffusion Weighted Images (DWI) which are vector images.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Francois
>>
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