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

[Nathan Lay]

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

[Dženan Zukić]

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,
DÅŸenan

Post by Nathan Lay
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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[Matt McCormick]

Hi Nathan,

Yes, ITK's capability for spatial analysis and its general
functionality has a lot to offer many domains. We need your help to
spread the word :-).

Regarding satellite imagery, the ITK-based OrfeoToolbox (OTB) has a
lot to offer also:

https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/

Cheers,
Matt

Post by Dženan Zukić
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.
Regards,
Dženan

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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