[Paraview] Reading ANALYZE files in paraview

[Kent Eschenberg]

Those links were helpful. An ANALYZE image is stored in 2 files, one with raw data and one with metadata. ParaView can probably read the raw data but the result might be meaningless. This format can handle 2D and 3D images in a wide variety of formats
and pixel ordering. It looks like the header information is critical to a proper understanding of the raw data.

A quick look at the VTK library (where ParaView's work is done) shows no reader for this format. There is some support for DICOM images, also used in medicine.

Does the Mayo/SPM system provide "output" or "export" options, to another file format?

If all else fails you could write a new reader.That is how the package grows.

Kent

--On 01/17/2007 06:32:14 PM +0100 bsd.diverse at gmail.com wrote:
> Sure i can. ANALYZE is a common fileformat for medical images. It is used by
> a lot of people. Actually i thought it was one of the most used formats for
> medical images, but maybe i am wrong.
> Here is a specification: http://www.mayo.edu/bir/PDF/ANALYZE75.pdf
> I think it was developed by the same people that also develop SPM for
> matlab, but i am not sure of this.
> Here is more information:
> http://www.grahamwideman.com/gw/brain/analyze/formatdoc.htm
> 
> I find it a bit strange that paraview cannot read these files.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> 
> 
> 2007/1/17, Kent Eschenberg <eschenbe at psc.edu>:
>> 
>> HI Arne,
>> 
>> I've never heard of "ANALYZE" images. Is "ANALYZE" the name of the
>> application or the file format? Could you supply the URL for a web site
>> describing these image files? Do you know anything about the format of the
>> image files?
>> 
>> --On 01/17/2007 03:35:53 PM +0100 bsd.diverse at gmail.com wrote:
>> > Hello. How can i read ANALYZE images in paraview?
>> > It seems that I was not able to find any built in ANALYZE reader.
>> > Can that really be true?
>> > 
>> > Thank you
>> 
>> Kent
>> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
>> 
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