ITK/Examples

Warning: The media wiki content on this page is no longer maintained. The examples presented on the https://itk.org/Wiki/* pages likely require ITK version 4.13 or earlier releases. In many cases, the examples on this page no longer conform to the best practices for modern ITK versions. Recent examples that are up to date with ITK version 5 can be found at ITK Examples

CMake Techniques

Example Name	ITK Classes Demonstrated	Description
Check if a specific module is present
Check for ITK4

Visualization

Example Name	ITK Classes Demonstrated	Description
Display an image		QuickView

Input/Output (IO)

Example Name	ITK Classes Demonstrated	Description
Display an ITK image	ImageToVTKImageFilter
Create a 3D volume from a series of 2D images	ImageSeriesReader	Uses NumericSeriesFileNames to generate a list of file names

Spectral Analysis

Example Name	ITK Classes Demonstrated	Description
Compute the FFT of an image	VnlFFTRealToComplexConjugateImageFilter
Compute the cross-correlation of two images in the Fourier domain	VnlFFTRealToComplexConjugateImageFilterVnlFFTComplexConjugateToRealImageFilter

Statistics

Example Name	ITK Classes Demonstrated	Description
Compute a histogram from an RGB image.	ImageToHistogramFilterRGB
Compute a histogram from a itk::VectorImage.	ImageToHistogramFilterVectorImage
1D KMeans Clustering	KdTreeBasedKMeansClustering
3D KMeans Clustering	KdTreeBasedKMeansClustering
Compute kmeans clusters	KdTreeBasedKmeansEstimator
Extract texture features using GLCM	ScalarImageToCooccurrenceMatrixFilter

Spatial Objects

Example Name	ITK Classes Demonstrated	Description
Plane spatial object	PlaneSpatialObject

Inspection

Example Name	ITK Classes Demonstrated	Description
Printing a pixel value to the console	GetPixel

Image Registration

Example Name	ITK Classes Demonstrated	Description
Register one image to another using manually specified landmarks	DeformationFieldTransform

Image Segmentation

Example Name	ITK Classes Demonstrated	Description
Mean shift clustering	SampleMeanShiftClusteringFilter

Meshes

Example Name	ITK Classes Demonstrated	Description
Subdivide an itk::QuadEdgeMesh	LoopTriangleCellSubdivisionQuadEdgeMeshFilter	Perform a loop triangle cell subdivision on a spherical quad edge mesh.

Wish List

Example Name	ITK Classes Demonstrated	Description
Compute texture features	ScalarImageToTextureFeaturesFilter	How to interpret the output?
Resample an itk::VectorImage
Compute the histogram of a masked region of an image	MaskedImageToHistogramFilter
Fit a spline to a point set	BSplineScatteredDataPointSetToImageFilter
BinaryPruningImageFilter	BinaryPruningImageFilter
Compute distributions of image pixels using GMM EM	GaussianMixtureModelComponent
LevenbergMarquart
IterativeClosestPoints
Demonstrate all operators	NeighborhoodOperator
Color Normalized Correlation	NormalizedCorrelationImageFilter
ContourSpatialObject	ContourSpatialObject
Store non-pixel associated data in an image	MetaDataDictionary
Level Sets
Region Growing
Separate foreground and background using Otsu's method	OtsuThresholdImageFilter
Extract contours from an image	SimpleContourExtractorImageFilter
Present an image of RGBPixel pixels as an image of vectors	RGBToVectorImageAdaptor
HoughTransform2DCirclesImageFilter	HoughTransform2DCirclesImageFilter
HoughTransform2DLinesImageFilter	HoughTransform2DLinesImageFilter
Write data from Matlab in a format readable by ITK
Write data from ITK in a format readable by Matlab
Compute edge potential	EdgePotentialImageFilter

Included in the ITK Repository

Example Name	ITK Classes Demonstrated	Description
Image registration

Problems

Small Problems

Example Name	ITK Classes Demonstrated	Description
Compute the histogram of an image	Statistics_1_1ImageToHistogramFilter	The last entry of the red histogram should contain several values, but it is 0?
Classifying pixels using KMeans	KmeansModelEstimator	How to apply the labels of the filter to the input image?