Shareable test data greatly helps determine the cause and fix these types of 
issues.

Got data?

Brad
On Nov 23, 2014, at 5:40 PM, Gib Bogle <g.bo...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

> This is reminiscent of the previous problem with big TIFF images, now fixed.
> 
> Gib
> From: Insight-users [insight-users-boun...@itk.org] on behalf of Fotis 
> Drakopoulos [fdrak...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, 24 November 2014 10:51 a.m.
> To: insight-us...@itk.org; insight-developers@itk.org
> Subject: [ITK-users] Problem reading a big nifti volume.
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> For the last couple of days I have been trying reading (unsuccessfully)  a 
> big nifti volume labeled image from my disk.
> 
> The pixel type is unsigned char and the rest specs of the image are:
> Size : [1001, 1001, 8345]  (in voxels)
> Spacing : [0.012, 0.012, 0.012]  (in mm)
> Origin : [0, 0, 0]
> Direction : 
> 1 0 0
> 0 1 0
> 0 0 1
> 
> First I loaded the volume on Slicer-4.4.0 (64 bit-linux) to get an idea how 
> it looks like. Indeed the object in the volume looks as it was expected. So 
> far no problems. The specs of the image on Slicer are the same as above 
> (except the direction which has flipped signs for the first two diagonal 
> entries, as we know ).
> 
> Then I tried to load the image in the memory using the itk::ImageFileReader  
> from ITK4.6.0 (64 bit-linux) version. After loading the image I noticed that 
> there are pixels with zero values instead of non-zero by comparing the same 
> indexes with the loaded image on Slicer.
> 
> Then I decided to write the loaded image on the disk using the 
> itk::ImageFileWriter. 
> 
> After opening the (written from ITK) image on Slicer I checked the specks and 
> were the same with the original image as above. However I noticed that a big 
> portion of the image is completely empty (black)!
> 
> My workstation has enough memory to load the image (768 GB 1600MHz DDR3L) and 
> is using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.5. 
> The size of the original nifti volume is :
> 25.7 MB (.nii.gz)
> 8.36 GB (.nii)
> Has anybody experienced similar difficulties trying to load so big volume 
> data?
> 
> Best,
> Fotis Drakopoulos
> CRTC
>      
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