[vtkusers] Slice through vtkImageStencilData

[Vincent LEFORT]

Hi,

Yes David, I want to slice in different directions (XZ, YZ or oblique), I was thinking about the vtkImageReslice because it can generate stencil output after slicing in different directions.

And using a vtkImageData, is functional (what I do currently), but using 1 byte to store an information that could be store in 1 bit, is not optimal in memory. So convert a vtkImageStencilData to vtkImageData before slicing is not interesting.

So, using vtkImageStencilData is an idea of compress data volume to say "i'm inside or outside the contour". 
After the slice operation (the problem here), extract the contour with vtkContourFilter or vtkMarchingSquares and display it in an actor to show the proper data will be ok.

And using a vtkImageData using the scalar type VTK_BIT doesn't work with vtkImageReslice...

Maybe, in this case other solutions are preferable : recode vtkImageReslice to support compressed input volume (RLE) or VTK_BIT, using octree, other...

Any idea ?

Regards,

Vincent

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Jothybasu Selvaraj [mailto:jothybasu at gmail.com] 
Envoyé : mercredi 3 octobre 2012 17:18
À : David Gobbi
Cc : Vincent LEFORT; vtkusers at vtk.org
Objet : Re: [vtkusers] Slice through vtkImageStencilData

But I think we can convert vtkImageStencilData into a vtkImageData using vtkImageStencil (if you have the original image data & image stencil data).

Something like this

vtkSmartPointer<vtkImageStencil>stencil2=
            vtkSmartPointer<vtkImageStencil>::New();
    stencil2->SetStencil(stencilData);
    stencil2->SetInput(imgData);
    stencil2->ReverseStencilOff();
    stencil2->SetBackgroundValue(0);
    stencil2->Update();

Jothy

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:11 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
>
> The quick answer is no, you cannot use vtkImageReslice to slice 
> through a vtkImageStencilData.  The image input is not optional, and 
> cannot be faked.
>
> But I don't know what you mean by "slice through, and display later".
> A vtkImageStencilData is already stored as a stack of slices, more or 
> less.  Do you mean to slice through it in different directions, i.e.
> with XZ or YZ slices instead of XY slices?
>
>  - David
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Vincent LEFORT 
> <vincent.lefort at aquilab.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is it possible to slice through a vtkImageStencilData ?
>>
>> I know is it possible to get the result of a slice operation using a 
>> vtkImageReslice and an input vtkImageStencilData (using 
>> GenerateStencilOutputOn), and get the output stencil, but i would 
>> like the same thing without using an entry in vtkImageReslice (but 
>> the entry 0 is not optional).
>>
>> Maybe, there is an other way to do this (or generate a fake 
>> vtkImageData without allocation of fake data) ?
>>
>> The final goal, is to have a very light structure to embed a bit 
>> volume representation for contours/structure (1 bit indicate if we 
>> are inside a contour or outside by voxel), and slice through, and display it after.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Vincent
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