[vtkusers] Filling in blood vessels

[Gib Bogle]

Yes, I wasn't sure of the correct language.  I've heard of ITK, but  
have no experience with it.  Will check it out.

Thanks
Gib

Quoting Mauro Maiorca <mauromaiorca at gmail.com>:

> 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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