You could use the vtkImageReslice filter class. You'll find some
documentation here:
http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkImageReslice.html

regards,

stefan

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Chiara Riccobene <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Dear Daniel,
>
> I think we will try to implement the tool as you said, can you give me some
> more information about the vtk filter that does the reslicing?
>
> I think that there will be no problem to integrate the new segmentation in
> mitk, once this will work, but I'll have to ask before to my lab
> (CISTIB-barcelona)
>
> thank you very much
> regards
>
> Chiara
> ________________________________________
> From: Daniel Maleike [[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 11:51 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [mitk-users] 2d segmentation tool on reoriented slices
>
> On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 14:51 +0200, Chiara Riccobene wrote:
> > Hi mitk-users!
> >
> > In my lab we're planning to implement a manual segmentation on reoriented
> slices, we would like to know if you're are also developing something
> similar or if you plan to do it in the future.
> >
> > We think that we could implement something similar to mitk::Seg2dTool
> where instead of looking for the pixel in the current slice we will look for
> the pixel in the working volume image (working data), the most complicated
> part I think would be the filling of this 3d contour in the volume image.
> >
> > Do you have any idea of how to do that? Did you already implement
> something similar?
> >
> > thank you very much in advance for your attention
> > regards
> >
> > Chiara Riccobene
>
> Dear Chiara,
>
> the tool you describe would be very valuable indeed. Especially
> colleagues working with MR images are asking for something like that.
>
> About the implementation idea, I would prefer to change mitk::SegTool2D
> in a way that it can cope with reoriented slices. I know that the
> current implementation is missing a concept for this, but we could
> change that.
>
> The simple part in implementation would be to extract a 2D slice from
> the 3D volume -- the 2D rendering does that and VTK provides a flexible
> filter for reslicing.
>
> The harder part will be to "write back" 2D slices to a 3D volume. When
> this is done for a single slice, I see no problem (only a minor
> definition problem of how thick the slice is). However, if you do that
> for consecutive (reoriented) slices, I an not really sure how you can
> guarantee that you do not generate single pixel holes in structures that
> you wanted to segment as a block. One solution could be to define slice
> thickness larger than slice offset.
>
> To answer your question clearly: nobody here is currently working on
> this issue and I am not aware of plans to do so. But as I mentioned,
> there is definitely a demand for this feature, so I would support
> integrating changes towards this direction. If you have suggestions for
> required changes, please feel free to send them in and start a
> discussion.
>
> Would you be willing and able to contribute these changes to MITK?
>
> Kind regards
> Daniel
>
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