There is a TIFFReadTile call in lib tiff. I some tiled images I will
try with the updated itk reader. I'll be really syprised if it works
since reading tiled images is tricky and took quite a bit of code.

I'll keep you posted.

Bill

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Bradley Lowekamp
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Bill,
>
> There was a tile block of code before, but that was not covered, looked 
> unreachable and was removed.
>
> Currently there are two ways that a tiff page can be read with the 
> TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented, and with the TIFFReadScanline. The RGBA method 
> from libtiff is fairly robust but reads the image into an RGBA buffer so is 
> not memory efficient. Our custom method uses the scanline method [1], which 
> should work with both stripped and tiled pages.
>
> But please test, and add a test? I'm not 100% if there is a test image for 
> tiled images.
>
> Where the difference between stripped and tiled images would really matter is 
> streaming, but that is not there...yet.
>
> Brad
>
> [1] http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/libtiff.html#scanlines
>
>
> On Nov 14, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Bill Lorensen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Brad,
>>
>> I recently added tiled image reading to VTK's tiff reader. Do you
>> think that would be useful in IUTK. I don't know how often tiled tiff
>> images are encountered.
>>
>> BTW I do not mean tiled pyramid tiff images.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Bradley Lowekamp
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I have recently refactored ITK's TIFFImageIO to remove a significant amount
>>> of dead code, and improve performance up to 3-5X. A number of bug related to
>>> reading BigTIFF files have been addressed. Additionally, Tiff tags are now
>>> place into the Meta-DataDictionary to allow access to additional TIFF fields
>>> such as OME-XML tags ( Originally contributed by Richard Beare
>>> http://www.insight-journal.org/browse/publication/728 ).
>>>
>>> Significant performance improvements were made to both scalar images and
>>> palette images. Handling of certain orientations are now "better" handled,
>>> while not changing how the default TOPLEFT orientation is loaded or written.
>>> There were a number of cases which appear unreachable and illogical such as
>>> support from Zeiss two-componet types, and support for some type of SGI
>>> tiled tiff as a 3D image. These were removed.
>>>
>>> If you are an active user of TIFF images with ITK, please checkout the
>>> latest ITK master and test the refactored TIFFImageIO.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Brad
>>>
>>> p.s. Here is the git log for the recent changes.
>>>
>>> $git log --no-merges 6791b4a3613aade07e3f11f765f1316faf03b113..
>>>
>>> commit 46f4125df47aeff9c42c9f2b3699c06e67ffaca9
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Fri Oct 31 14:25:13 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    ENH: adding TIFFImageIO test for RGB palette images
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: I320acc8beac8225616451d11b291b1d7e12a17d0
>>>
>>> commit 9adc54c7f53b4da84a41f500d561ae494cb85158
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Fri Oct 24 13:42:02 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    BUG: Adding missing parentheses around boolean expression
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: I669d160ff3ba830f3c33ac87de434db41472eb79
>>>
>>> commit 40afd95161727be3274f8094ce19fe45e2c3aa50
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Wed Oct 22 15:05:39 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    PERF: Refactor color table lookup
>>>
>>>    Change to use a index lookup for the color and gray scale
>>>    palettes. The remove excessive exception checking done on a per pixel
>>>    basis with the GetColor method. Additionally the InitializeColor
>>>    method was change do initialize the color palette variables.
>>>
>>>    An exception no longer occurs when an index exceeds the number of
>>>    entries in a palette. Instead a module operator is used to prevent
>>>    out of bounds memory access.
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: Ia62c65cd8b1be0d66c488540709a8fb961190cc9
>>>
>>> commit d98cbeb7206f6007f7d0c25fd4a4becad8973053
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Fri Oct 3 09:01:28 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    ENH: Refactor per pixel conversion function to per scan-line method
>>>
>>>    This patch changes the implementation of conversion from the TIFF
>>>    scanline buffer from a function call on each pixel to a function call
>>>    per scanline. The enable efficient copying of similar scanline and
>>>    better reuse of variables for palette look ups.
>>>
>>>    This can increase the performance of reading grayscale images by up to
>>>    3X for cached files.
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: I24bb744fda35629f1c1ed7154e26e5708e912059
>>>
>>> commit 8e488f40e8cb7defa046700798b77e3944ac33c9
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Tue Sep 30 08:56:58 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    ENH: RGBA read images should stay unchanged.
>>>
>>>    The image that are read with the TIFFReadRGBAImage should not have
>>>    their pixel types converted. This libtiff method always read images
>>>    into an ABGR uint8 format. When the tiff file is read by this method
>>>    it should report that uint8 and RGBA is the component an pixel type
>>>    for the image. This allows the standard ITK buffer conversion to be
>>>    performed.
>>>
>>>    This change remove extra cases and template instantiations.
>>>
>>>    Additionally the RGBAImageToBuffer method was flipping the image along
>>>    the y-axis, this has been more explicitly done with the call to
>>>    TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented.
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: I022b12921d406edb09730f905213b0db811f1bd4
>>>
>>> commit e5834d5b00e4e3fab3255d88e7d8fd917ee722e9
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Fri Sep 26 14:04:09 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    ENH: Remove support for TIFF tile as 3D and dead code
>>>
>>>    This TIFF file format is a file which contains a list of directories,
>>>    if there are no directories in the file it's not a valid tiff. Code
>>>    which supported 3D tiles was conditioned on a file with no directories
>>>    and no data. Additional code was removed related to a private SGI tag
>>>    TIFFTAG_TILEDEPTH, ImageJ specific tag also pre-conditioned on this
>>>    invalid case.
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: Id4ef171c5dbe0c797be206e0059c7488719ef6e6
>>>
>>> commit 3ac19a9ffd94e02254900dd0e5e2661c329e3183
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Mon Oct 6 10:01:50 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    BUG: Address Coverity warning about null pointer dereferences
>>>
>>>    The patch addressed the following Coverity warnings:
>>>
>>>    ** CID 1243373:  Explicit null dereferenced  (FORWARD_NULL)
>>>    itkTIFFImageIO.cxx:
>>>    1192 in itk::TIFFImageIO::ReadTIFFTags()()
>>>
>>>    ** CID 1243372:  Dereference null return value  (NULL_RETURNS)
>>>    itkTIFFImageIO.cxx:
>>>    1096 in itk::TIFFImageIO::ReadTIFFTags()()
>>>
>>>    ** CID 1243371:  Dereference before null check  (REVERSE_INULL)
>>>    itkTIFFImageIO.cxx:
>>>    1100 in itk::TIFFImageIO::ReadTIFFTags()()
>>>    Last login: Fri Oct  3 19:47:29 on ttys004
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: I02c8435628c860ff03889b9b57e9dd1543bf82da
>>>
>>> commit 52ce992f3a57ef9f187f9c4b4ebd7ce20db365bd
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Fri Sep 26 11:04:38 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    ENH: Reduce code duplicate in TIFFImageIO::ReadCurrentPage
>>>
>>>    Refactoring of the pixelOffset to include the number of components
>>>    remove the need for a separate block for RGB multi-component files.
>>>
>>> commit 97b33787ec17b76a61fdb43b5f1e1ea708bbac2c
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Wed Sep 24 15:00:54 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    ENH: add arbitrary TIFF TAGs to meta-data dictionary
>>>
>>>    A more general approach to adding custom tiff tags to the meta-data
>>>    dictionary has been used based on the implementation of libtiff's
>>>    PrintDirectory method and the libtiff "Defining New TIFF Tags"
>>>    documentation.
>>>
>>>    Additionally a new test image was added generated in Photoshop, which
>>>    has a novel pixel layout, and also contains additional tag types such
>>>    as byte, and size specified ascii.
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: Idb2e669e540cfbe27a932444011f4b9896ca403d
>>>
>>> commit 795c71abb8b5c3a09d461ec7b34eefbfdcb460e9
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Mon Sep 22 15:08:36 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    BUG: Use array delete operator for array new allocations
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: Ic9bc3c3792083a1a1b3fd842486a7436a4086150
>>>
>>> commit 83e8b6e699b3d9e2da8533dd1ea36dc0692bc9eb
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Tue Sep 23 11:14:15 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    STYLE: Fix minor kwstyle defects in test and test results
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: I4b2641d31acb5c764de4041bb7d21c08b3c99846
>>>
>>> commit 869f3275120646829b27d5cd75c23800d9df01cd
>>> Author: Richard Beare <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Tue Sep 23 11:11:34 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    ENH: Include TIFF tags in the MetaDataDictionary
>>>
>>>    Add contribution from the Insight Journal:
>>>    http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3170
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: I20b02394d92c421bad75c5d0af496a6e80089ac0
>>>
>>> commit c7a76c9acb319862647a651a2060dd3fb16560d7
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Mon Sep 22 14:46:44 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    BUG: Remove dead separated plannar code, add test
>>>
>>>    The PLANARCONFIG_SEPARATE block in TIFFImageIO::ReadGenericImage, was
>>>    preceded by a unreachable due to a conditional and exception
>>>    check. Support for this configuration remains in the TIFFReadRGBAImage
>>>    method. A test for the configuration has been added.
>>>
>>>    A new input image is added from the from the libTiff test images:
>>>
>>>    PlanarConfiguration = 2 (separated samples)
>>>    -------------------------------------------
>>>    oxford.tif      601x81 8-bit RGB (lzw) screendump off oxford
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: Ibb874f80809b70b1aee7a2c9ff1fc8544ed56c04
>>>
>>> commit 1b57d75964496dd2cc9e050a4a4425f1163d4b22
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Mon Sep 22 13:32:23 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    BUG: Fix right oriented tiff images
>>>
>>>    The TIFFImageIO::ReadGenericImage method correctly handled top-left
>>>    oriented images, and bottom-right image, however images oriented with
>>>    right were non-correctly handled. These cases are now handled
>>>    correctly by the TIFFRGBAImage generic path.
>>>
>>>    New test images of the cthead1 image were added which have been
>>>    flipped the to the different orientation, and the matching orientation
>>>    tag specified so that they should all be read as equivalent
>>>    images. These have been added as a test case.
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: I058382d6d2e18341ab87edd165490be2187c1d15
>>>
>>> commit 6263f4389026f1bd770054e86c428b56629d705b
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Thu Sep 18 16:20:41 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    ENH: Refactor duplicated code to read a page
>>>
>>>    Created a method to read a single page or sub-image in a tiff
>>>    file. Simular code was both in the ReadVolume method for 3-d and the
>>>    Read method for 2-d. The code block from ReadVolume was used because
>>>    it contained more typed cases. There for this patch does improve the
>>>    2d reading capabilities for tiffio, so that they are consistent with
>>>    the 3d.
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: I0fbfb19f04435a703bb3fa09ea4e79179592e443
>>>
>>> commit 233571f1e626917bce872e450907bc8e8521e371
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Thu Sep 18 14:59:58 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    ENH: Refactor method to convert RGBA image to output buffer
>>>
>>>    BUG: Address overflow issue when computing page offset with
>>>    TIFFReadRGBAImage method.
>>>
>>>    Extract repeated code to convert from ReadRGBAImage to output image
>>>    type.
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: Ia90b5e104f22c77493b8a4cd5bf640fd793b8b4b
>>>
>>> commit 1cd59825fa65f1123726a32f67c1a443015b40ec
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Thu Sep 18 11:30:41 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    BUG: Remove Zeiss 2-channel support code in TIFFImageIO ( and LSMImageIO
>>> )
>>>
>>>    There are no tests for this branch of code. It only works in 3D under
>>>    certain cases. There are apparent bugs in the code such as not setting
>>>    all of the input image, and logically dead branches. Some downloaded
>>>    test images for similar described format do not load. This may effect
>>>    files with the extensions tif, tiff, or lsm.
>>>
>>>    Removal of this code will enable expansion of the current code to more
>>>    generically support multi-sample per pixel images.
>>>
>>>    For more robust reading of this type of image the SCIFIO remote
>>>    module should be used.
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: Idb98d69538db3bc8520881ea4a5e22476238c41e
>>>
>>> commit 690cfdc89343fcc8c7d3cc266d652cfb14de9d41
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Tue Sep 16 15:31:52 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    ENH: Refactor GenericReadImage into template function
>>>
>>>    Reduce code duplication by using template method.
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: I79411ad6595258d54cbfa5a4152cc55994acd8e0
>>>
>>> commit 5f73f24bfb668fa9f33804218c0db05cf5cadb3f
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Tue Sep 16 12:09:59 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    ENH: Refactor ReadTwoSamplePerPixelImage into template function
>>>
>>>    Reduce code duplication by using template method.
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: I45f417486e60a4d3e67ff31fa967dac069b3ce3e
>>>
>>> commit 0b573136d636613217df9683ea846db8039f9312
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Tue Sep 16 11:12:45 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    ENH: Extract TiffReaderInternal to separate file
>>>
>>>    Refactored private class to be in separate private header.
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: Icb4008c1605a3a0b62c563350cf2e3bbe948ec6d
>>>
>>> commit 6791b4a3613aade07e3f11f765f1316faf03b113
>>> Author: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Mon Sep 15 16:46:26 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    BUG: Fix overflows computing size of read tiff image
>>>
>>>    When multiplying the height and width of an tiff image (32-bits),
>>>    at least one element should be converted to size_t to help prevent
>>>    numeric overflow.
>>>
>>>    This change enables reading of larger RGB and large 2D image, that
>>>    were previously truncated when reading. This does not address
>>>    potential buffer overflow or resource limits which could occur.
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: I192370606677c8dc1a903c67c2a0701026256d5a
>>>
>>> commit b6fabfeb2a5b8d339b2d459edd3e3c50232b55ff
>>> Author: Matt McCormick <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Mon Aug 25 00:35:48 2014 -0400
>>>
>>>    COMP: Do not use _stat64 with MinGW-32.
>>>
>>>    Unlike MinGW-w64, MinGW-32 aka MinGW, does not define as much of the API
>>>    including _stat64.  Do not use use _stat64 in TIFFImageIO when building
>>> with
>>>    MinGW-32.
>>>
>>>    Change-Id: I8f13a4500cdadf4f4adae7b5cf8893fe8b8cad55
>>>
>>>
>>>
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