[vtkusers] Writing multi-paged tiff image

[Bradley Lowekamp]

Hello,

I have recently refactored ITK's TIFFImageIO mostly for improving reading, but it supports writing 3D images as multi-paged tiffs. You can utilized ITK ImageIO by using ITK's VTK bridge module [1]. Alternatively, you can look at ITK's implementation as see about porting it to VTK[2]. I believe the writing method still has an evident heritage from VTK.

I am not a big fan for 3D tiffs because there is no standard way to store z-spacing and image origin.

Brad

[1] http://www.itk.org/Doxygen/html/group__ITKVTK.html
[2] https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK/blob/master/Modules/IO/TIFF/src/itkTIFFImageIO.cxx#L504-L764

On Dec 17, 2014, at 4:42 PM, Maarten Beek via vtkusers <vtkusers at vtk.org> wrote:

> Thanks for your reply David,
> 
> I would like to write multi-page tiffs, but I might not be smart enough. I see one tiff file with all images stitched together in a long column, so I am thinking of a missing page return or something. But I guess that's a over-simplification ;-)
> 
> vtkImageWriter works fine as long as I remember the extent, spacing and origin.
> 
> Last year I saw multi-page tiff phloro images, now I see multi-page tiff ct data; maybe vtktiffwriter will be 3d capable some day....
> 
> Maarten
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 4:30 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Maarten Beek <beekmaarten at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> Sorry, I'll try to remember. I did search the internet but couldn't find a clear answer.
> 
> I am a bit confused though, because vtkTiffReader reads multi-page tiffs fine. What is preventing a multi-page writer?
> 
> All that's missing is someone with the need to write multi-page files, who is willing to modify the writer so that it writes multi-page files!  It isn't a trivial project, because there are at least three different semi-standard ways of storing 3D data in TIFF, and they aren't entirely compatible with one another.
> 
> Even with the reader, multi-page files were troublesome for a long time, because it could read some 3D files but not others (again, because TIFF has  several semi-standard ways of storing 3D data).  TIFF was not initially designed to handle 3D, and all the ways of making it work with 3D are a bit hackish.
> 
> 
> What are my options in vtk? What writers do write 3d images? Does a tool exist that puts multiple tiffs in one multi-page tiff?
> 
> Well, right now NIFTI is my favorite 3D image format.  I don't use TIFF much, so I don't know what TIFF tools are available.  
> 
>  - David 
> 
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