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From: schwrtze@acf8.UUCP (E. Schwartz group)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: File formats for image data ?
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Date: 1 Mar 88 17:47:00 GMT
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Organization: New York University
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On image file formats:
We are using the HIPS system, of Mike Landy and colleagues (NYU Dept. Psych.),
which was described in Comp. Graphics and Image Processing (1985?..).
The original version of this system consists of a large number of
image processing routines ( written in C) and features a well thought
out image header, which includes an executable history of the operations
which have been performed on the given file. The basic system supports
typed images ( BYTE, SHORT, INT, FLOAT, DOUBLE, COMPLEX), and
image sequences. In regard to some of the other requirements mentioned,
we (Computational Neuroscience, NYU MedCtr) have extened the basic
HIPS system to include color maps, non-array image formats (histograms,
sparse images), arbitrary additional data ( pixel size aspect ratio,
and user defined info that needs to accopmany the image), and interactive
window based tools for the SUN environment.
My impression is that essentially all of the requirements listed are
met by the original HIPS implementation and/or our extensions of it.
We have used this system for a number of years in a large computer
aided neuro-anatomy project, and various computational vision applications:
since the basic system is well constructed, it is easy to extend it
to handle new problems, although we have found that the current
implementation has stabilized, and there is little that we need add...
Eric Schwartz
schwrtze@acf8.nyu.edu
Computational Neuroscience Labs
NYU Med. Center