National Alliance for Medical Image Computing http://na-mic.org

NA-MIC kit for non-medical data:Develop and test a FITS IO reader for ITK to allow astronomy data to be imported directly into Slicer.

Douglas Alan (Harvard IIC) (software)Michael Halle (BWH/IIC) (software)

Luis Ibanez, Kitware (software) ??

Plan/Expected Challenges/PublicationTeam

Accomplished by end of Programming Week

ITK FITSIO now reads in multi-dimensionalimage from FITS file.

Skeleton code for reading headers

Still need physical to data unit conversion

Expected Date for Insight Journal Publication: September ‘06..

2006 Summer PrWeek

Plan: Build simple ITK reader for FITS that imports a multi-dimensional data volume and associated metadata into ITK. Build in hooks to support interpretation of headers to provide world coordinate system conversion.

Challenges: Handling dimensionless and non-rectilinear coordinate systems (although this issue can be deferred).