[vtkusers] Filling in blood vessels

[Mauro Maiorca]

Hi Gib,

if I've understood correctly your problem, you want to segment ("fill
in") the vessels then render the segmented image.
VTK is great for rendering, but you might want to use ITK
(www.itk.org) for segmentation (for just a threshold you can still use
VTK - though).
You might also want to have a look to ITK-snap
(http://www.itksnap.org) and other VTK-related applications
(http://www.vtk.org/VTK/resources/applications.html).

cheers,
Mauro




On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Gib Bogle <g.bogle at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> I've just started to become aware of the image-processing capabilities of VTK, and I'm wondering if I can use it for some tasks that I was expecting to use Amira for.  We are generating images in which the walls of blood vessels are stained, so that the vessels appear in 3D as tubes.  I believe the first processing step I need to make is to "fill in" the vessels, i.e. generate a thresholded 3D image in which the vessels appear solid.  Is this the kind of thing that VTK can handle?
>
> Thanks
> Gib
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