[vtkusers] Changing level/window in LUT for ImageSlice: Unwanted clipping effects

Sophonet vtk12af6bc42 at kant.sophonet.de
Thu Feb 2 13:51:10 EST 2017


Hi David,

here it is (needed to copy a few lines since the functionality is part 
of a class). Note that it contains your work-around twice, once, when 
setting an external colormap, and the second time when changing 
window/level.

Oh, after pasting, it came into my mind that using an external color 
table might be the reason? In this case, I recall, Build() is not really 
needed anyway...

Hope this helps. Thanks for looking into this so quickly,

      Sophonet



// Initialization
vtkSmartPointer<vtkLookupTable> colorMap_ = 
vtkSmartPointer<vtkLookupTable>::New();
vtkSmartPointer<vtkImageProperty> imageProperty_ = 
vtkSmartPointer<vtkImageProperty>::New();
colorMap_->SetNumberOfTableValues(256);
colorMap_->SetRange(0, 1);

imageProperty_->SetLookupTable(colorMap_);
imageProperty_->UseLookupTableScalarRangeOn();

imageSlice_->SetProperty(imageProperty_);


// Setting color map from external RGBA array
colorMap_->SetTable(colorArray); // please see below how I have set up 
the array...
double aboveColor[4];
double belowColor[4];
colorMap_->GetTableValue(255, aboveColor);
colorMap_->SetAboveRangeColor(aboveColor);
colorMap_->UseAboveRangeColorOn();
colorMap_->GetTableValue(0, belowColor);
colorMap_->SetBelowRangeColor(belowColor);
colorMap_->UseBelowRangeColorOn();
colorMap_->SetNumberOfTableValues(256);
colorMap_->Build();

// Callback for level / window
double minmax[2];
minmax[0] = windowLevel_[1] - 0.5*windowLevel_[0];
minmax[1] = windowLevel_[1] + 0.5*windowLevel_[0];
colorMap_->SetRange(minmax);
double aboveColor[4];
double belowColor[4];
colorMap_->GetTableValue(255, aboveColor);
colorMap_->SetAboveRangeColor(aboveColor);
colorMap_->UseAboveRangeColorOn();
colorMap_->GetTableValue(0, belowColor);
colorMap_->SetBelowRangeColor(belowColor);
colorMap_->UseBelowRangeColorOn();
colorMap_->SetNumberOfTableValues(256);
colorMap_->Build();


//////////////////////////////////////
const unsigned char grayscale[4*256] = {
0, 0, 0, 255, 1, 1, 1, 255,
// you can imagine how things continue. I have other more useful arrays 
for other color scales as well
// ...
};

vtkSmartPointer<vtkUnsignedCharArray> colorArray = 
vtkSmartPointer<vtkUnsignedCharArray>::New();
newMap->SetNumberOfValues(256);
newMap->SetNumberOfComponents(4);
newMap->SetArray(const_cast<unsigned char *>(grayscale), 4 * 256, 1);



Am 2017-02-02 18:51, schrieb David Gobbi:
> Hi Sophonet,
> 
> Can you send the exact code that you use to set up the lookup table,
> including the call to Build(), so that I can check locally?
> 
>  - David
> 
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Sophonet
> <vtk12af6bc42 at kant.sophonet.de> wrote:
> 
>> Well, on my system your proposed change did not work, I still see
>> transparent color when LUT clipping occurs, exactly as before. I
>> have even copied your lines of your previous posting plus the
>> Build() call below the SetRange() callback, in which I am doing
>> level/windowing. Not sure why though - I might check again using the
>> HEAD (I am on 7.1.0 release)
>> 
>> - Sophonet
>> 
>> Am 2017-02-02 18:08, schrieb David Gobbi:
>> Okay, here is a very simple work-around for this issue: Just call
>> Build() on the table after you have set all the other table
>> parameters.  Please let me know if this fixes the issue.
>> 
>> I've submitted a fix for mapper so that it will call Build()
>> automatically.  I'm not sure why it didn't do this before.
>> 
>>  - David
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 8:41 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> I've discovered more about this issue.  The Above/Below colors
>> will
>> work if you call SetNumberOfColors after turning them on:
>> 
>> table->SetBelowRangeColor(1,0,0,1);
>> table->SetAboveRangeColor(0,1,0,1);
>> table->UseAboveRangeColorOn();
>> table->UseBelowRangeColorOn();
>> table->SetNumberOfColors(256);
>> 
>> I'm still investigating to see why this happens.
>> 
>>  - David
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 7:20 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Sophonet,
>> 
>> I have confirmed that what you report is true: the
>> vtkImageResliceMapper (and vtkImageSliceMapper) seem to ignore the
>> AboveRangeColor and the BelowRangeColor.  This is also true for
>> the
>> current VTK master branch.  My current theory is that the mapper
>> clamps the scalars to the range before they go through the lookup
>> table.  Hopefully I'll have a fix for this soon.
>> 
>> As a workaround (a inefficient workaround), you can use
>> vtkImageMapToColors to apply the lookup table to the image before
>> it
>> goes to the mapper.
>> 
>>  - David
>>    
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 5:10 AM, Sophonet
>> <vtk12af6bc42 at kant.sophonet.de> wrote:
>> Dear list,
>> 
>> for displaying images, I am using vtkImageResliceMapper. For
>> changing the colormap, I set a dedicated color map to the
>> imageSlice's property (which is a vtkLookupTable) and tell to use
>> its scalar range:
>> 
>> colorMap_->SetNumberOfTableValues(256);
>> colorMap_->SetRange(0, 1);
>> 
>> imageProperty_->SetLookupTable(colorMap_);
>> imageProperty_->UseLookupTableScalarRangeOn();
>> 
>> Now, when changing level/window interactively with the mouse, I am
>> setting the range in the colorMap via
>> 
>> double minmax[2];
>> // set values of minmax correctly
>> colorMap_->SetRange(minmax);
>> 
>> The changes are displayed correctly - however, areas in which
>> original scalars of the image are clipped, the resulting color is
>> displayed as transparent. However, I would like to display the
>> maximum / minimum value in the color table.
>> 
>> I have tried using colorMap_->SetAboveRangeColor() and
>> colorMap_->SetAboveRangeColorOn() (likewise for ...BelowRange...),
>> with no apparent effect.
>> 
>> Any advice?
>> 
>> I am using VTK 7.1.0.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>>      Sophonet
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