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

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Hi Nathan,

ITK is NOT only a medical imaging toolkit. It has many other uses. You are
right that it has primarily medical focus, and that is because it has been
primarily funded by NIH.

Thanks for positive feedback. Also, you might want to join the new forum
<https://discourse.itk.org/>.

Regards,
D=C5=BEenan

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 8:18 PM Nathan Lay <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 ear=
th
> 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 system=
s
> simultaneously.
>
> Best regards,
> Nathan Lay
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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:verdana,=
sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Nathan,</div><div class=3D"gmail_default" st=
yle=3D"font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class=
=3D"gmail_default"><font face=3D"verdana, sans-serif">ITK is NOT only a med=
ical imaging toolkit. It has many other uses. You are right that it has pri=
marily medical focus, and that is because it has been primarily funded by N=
IH.</font></div><div class=3D"gmail_default"><font face=3D"verdana, sans-se=
rif"><br></font></div><div class=3D"gmail_default"><font face=3D"verdana, s=
ans-serif">Thanks for positive feedback. Also, you might want to join the n=
ew <a href=3D"https://discourse.itk.org/">forum</a>.</font><br></div><div c=
lass=3D"gmail_default"><font face=3D"verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div>=
<div class=3D"gmail_default"><font face=3D"verdana, sans-serif">Regards,</f=
ont></div><div class=3D"gmail_default"><font face=3D"verdana, sans-serif">D=
=C5=BEenan</font></div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr=
">On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 8:18 PM Nathan Lay &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:enslay@gm=
ail.com">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmai=
l_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left=
:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Just personal observation... but I&#39;ve been =
using ITK in a very similar fashion to medical imaging to do some cartograp=
hy/geography related work (my spacing is m instead of mm). And saving extra=
/custom meta data like GeoTIFF is something the medical imaging community h=
as been doing for decades with a plethora of formats (like MetaIO and DICOM=
). I can also imagine streaming IO being useful for streaming large section=
s of the earth too! It&#39;s also really useful to save 16 bit pixels somet=
imes... 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 car=
ries transformations around. And that information (and more!) get saved to =
file too.</div><div><br></div><div>I mean doing similar work with PNG/JPG a=
nd OpenCV is a nightmare by comparison when you need to work with lots of d=
ifferent coordinate systems simultaneously.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Be=
st regards,</div><div>Nathan Lay<br></div></div>
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