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Binary AND Two Images

Synopsis

Binary AND two images.

Results

input1.png

input2.png

output.png

Code

C++

#include "itkImage.h"
#include "itkSimpleFilterWatcher.h"
#include "itkAndImageFilter.h"
#include "itkImageRegionIterator.h"
#include "itkImageFileWriter.h"

using ImageType = itk::Image<unsigned char, 2>;
static void
CreateImage1(ImageType::Pointer image);
static void
CreateImage2(ImageType::Pointer image);

int
main()
{
  auto image1 = ImageType::New();
  CreateImage1(image1);

  itk::WriteImage(image1, "input1.png");

  auto image2 = ImageType::New();
  CreateImage2(image2);

  itk::WriteImage(image2, "input2.png");

  using AndImageFilterType = itk::AndImageFilter<ImageType>;

  auto andFilter = AndImageFilterType::New();
  andFilter->SetInput(0, image1);
  andFilter->SetInput(1, image2);
  andFilter->Update();

  itk::WriteImage(andFilter->GetOutput(), "output.png");

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

void
CreateImage1(ImageType::Pointer image)
{
  ImageType::IndexType start;
  start.Fill(0);

  ImageType::SizeType size;
  size.Fill(100);

  ImageType::RegionType region;
  region.SetSize(size);
  region.SetIndex(start);

  image->SetRegions(region);
  image->Allocate();

  itk::ImageRegionIterator<ImageType> imageIterator(image, region);

  while (!imageIterator.IsAtEnd())
  {
    if (imageIterator.GetIndex()[0] < 70)
    {
      imageIterator.Set(255);
    }
    else
    {
      imageIterator.Set(0);
    }

    ++imageIterator;
  }
}

void
CreateImage2(ImageType::Pointer image)
{
  ImageType::IndexType start;
  start.Fill(0);

  ImageType::SizeType size;
  size.Fill(100);

  ImageType::RegionType region;
  region.SetSize(size);
  region.SetIndex(start);

  image->SetRegions(region);
  image->Allocate();

  itk::ImageRegionIterator<ImageType> imageIterator(image, region);

  while (!imageIterator.IsAtEnd())
  {
    if (imageIterator.GetIndex()[0] > 30)
    {
      imageIterator.Set(255);
    }
    else
    {
      imageIterator.Set(0);
    }

    ++imageIterator;
  }
}

Classes demonstrated

template<typename TInputImage1, typename TInputImage2 = TInputImage1, typename TOutputImage = TInputImage1>
class AndImageFilter : public itk::BinaryGeneratorImageFilter<TInputImage1, TInputImage2, TOutputImage>

Implements the AND bitwise operator pixel-wise between two images.

This class is templated over the types of the two input images and the type of the output image. Numeric conversions (castings) are done by the C++ defaults.

Since the bitwise AND operation is only defined in C++ for integer types, the images passed to this filter must comply with the requirement of using integer pixel type.

The total operation over one pixel will be

output_pixel = static_cast<OutputPixelType>( input1_pixel & input2_pixel )

Where “&” is the bitwise AND operator in C++.

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See itk::AndImageFilter for additional documentation.