[ITK-users] ITK is more general than medical imaging!

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Just personal observation... but I've been using ITK in a very similar
fashion to medical imaging to do some cartography/geography related work
(my spacing is m instead of mm). And saving extra/custom meta data like
GeoTIFF is something the medical imaging community has been doing for
decades with a plethora of formats (like MetaIO and DICOM). I can also
imagine streaming IO being useful for streaming large sections of the earth
too! It's also really useful to save 16 bit pixels sometimes... and
visualize them (and overlay them on other images or masks).

Why is ITK only a medical imaging toolkit again? A big reason I use ITK for
such *unrelated* work is that its itk::Image carries transformations
around. And that information (and more!) get saved to file too.

I mean doing similar work with PNG/JPG and OpenCV is a nightmare by
comparison when you need to work with lots of different coordinate systems
simultaneously.

Best regards,
Nathan Lay

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ITK in a very similar fashion to medical imaging to do some cartography/geo=
graphy related work (my spacing is m instead of mm). And saving extra/custo=
m meta data like GeoTIFF is something the medical imaging community has bee=
n doing for decades with a plethora of formats (like MetaIO and DICOM). I c=
an also imagine streaming IO being useful for streaming large sections of t=
he earth too! It&#39;s also really useful to save 16 bit pixels sometimes..=
. and visualize them (and overlay them on other images or masks).<br></div>=
<div><br></div><div>Why is ITK only a medical imaging toolkit again? A big =
reason I use ITK for such *unrelated* work is that its itk::Image carries t=
ransformations around. And that information (and more!) get saved to file t=
oo.</div><div><br></div><div>I mean doing similar work with PNG/JPG and Ope=
nCV is a nightmare by comparison when you need to work with lots of differe=
nt coordinate systems simultaneously.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best reg=
ards,</div><div>Nathan Lay<br></div></div>

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