Resample an image via a coordinate transform. More...

Detailed Description

Resample an image via a coordinate transform.

ResampleImageFilter resamples an existing image through some coordinate transform, interpolating via some image function. The class is templated over the types of the input and output images.

Note that the choice of interpolator function can be important. This function is set via SetInterpolator(). The default is itk::LinearInterpolateImageFunction<InputImageType, TInterpolatorPrecisionType>, which is reasonable for ordinary medical images. However, some synthetic images have pixels drawn from a finite prescribed set. An example would be a mask indicating the segmentation of a brain into a small number of tissue types. For such an image, one does not want to interpolate between different pixel values, and so itk::NearestNeighborInterpolateImageFunction< InputImageType, TCoordRep > would be a better choice.

Output information (spacing, size and direction) for the output image should be set. This information has the normal defaults of unit spacing, zero origin and identity direction. Optionally, the output information can be obtained from a reference image. If the reference image is provided and UseReferenceImage is On, then the spacing, origin and direction of the reference image will be used.

Since this filter produces an image which is a different size than its input, it needs to override several of the methods defined in ProcessObject in order to properly manage the pipeline execution model. In particular, this filter overrides ProcessObject::GenerateInputRequestedRegion() and ProcessObject::GenerateOutputInformation().

This filter is implemented as a multithreaded filter. It provides a ThreadedGenerateData() method for its implementation.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

itkInvResampleImageFilter.h