Pythonic Syntactic Sugar

The Image Basics Notebook was straight forward and closely follows ITK's C++ interface.

Sugar is great it gives your energy to get things done faster! SimpleITK has applied a generous about of syntactic sugar to help get things done faster too.



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%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib as mpl
mpl.rc('image', aspect='equal')
import SimpleITK as sitk
# Download data to work on
%run update_path_to_download_script
from downloaddata import fetch_data as fdata

Let us begin by developing a convenient method for displaying images in our notebooks.



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img = sitk.GaussianSource(size=[64]*2)
plt.imshow(sitk.GetArrayViewFromImage(img))



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img = sitk.GaborSource(size=[64]*2, frequency=.03)
plt.imshow(sitk.GetArrayViewFromImage(img))



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def myshow(img):
    nda = sitk.GetArrayViewFromImage(img)
    plt.imshow(nda)
myshow(img)

Multi-dimension slice indexing

If you are familiar with numpy, sliced index then this should be cake for the SimpleITK image. The Python standard slice interface for 1-D object:

Operation	Result
d[i]	i-th item of d, starting index 0
d[i:j]	slice of d from i to j
d[i:j:k]	slice of d from i to j with step k

With this convenient syntax many basic tasks can be easily done.



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img[24,24]

Cropping



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myshow(img[16:48,:])



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myshow(img[:,16:-16])



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myshow(img[:32,:32])

Flipping



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img_corner = img[:32,:32]
myshow(img_corner)



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myshow(img_corner[::-1,:])



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myshow(sitk.Tile(img_corner, img_corner[::-1,::],img_corner[::,::-1],img_corner[::-1,::-1], [2,2]))

Slice Extraction

A 2D image can be extracted from a 3D one.



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img = sitk.GaborSource(size=[64]*3, frequency=0.05)

# Why does this produce an error?
myshow(img)



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myshow(img[:,:,32])



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myshow(img[16,:,:])

Subsampling



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myshow(img[:,::3,32])

Mathematical Operators

Most python mathematical operators are overloaded to call the SimpleITK filter which does that same operation on a per-pixel basis. They can operate on a two images or an image and a scalar.

If two images are used then both must have the same pixel type. The output image type is usually the same.

As these operators basically call ITK filter, which just use raw C++ operators, care must be taken to prevent overflow, and divide by zero etc.

Operators



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img = sitk.ReadImage(fdata("cthead1.png"))
img = sitk.Cast(img,sitk.sitkFloat32)
myshow(img)
img[150,150]



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timg = img**2
myshow(timg)
timg[150,150]

Division Operators

All three Python division operators are implemented __floordiv__, __truediv__, and __div__.

The true division's output is a double pixel type.

See PEP 238 to see why Python changed the division operator in Python 3.

Bitwise Logic Operators

Operators



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img = sitk.ReadImage(fdata("cthead1.png"))
myshow(img)

Comparative Operators

Operators

These comparative operators follow the same convention as the reset of SimpleITK for binary images. They have the pixel type of sitkUInt8 with values of 0 and 1.



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img = sitk.ReadImage(fdata("cthead1.png"))
myshow(img)

Amazingly make common trivial tasks really trivial



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myshow(img>90)



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myshow(img>150)



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myshow((img>90)+(img>150))