Hi Luca,
thanks a lot for your help! I have updated vmtk and I'm using it since this
morning without any issue, so I guess you solved the problem! I'll let you know
should I encounter it again...
Thanks again and have a nice weekend!
Lucia
On Jun 22, 2012, at 7:32 AM, Luca Antiga wrote:
> Hi Lucia,
> yes, this is an issue that I've already seen in a few platforms.
>
> Recently vmtk forks a new process to launch the processing pipe - this
> allows, for instance,
> to kill a job or to avoid a few issues with PypePad if something goes wrong.
>
> Now, there was probably a glitch in the way things are set up - the tricky
> bit is that this
> glitch comes out quite erratically and on a few platforms more than others,
> so I deferred
> its solution.
>
> Now I think I found the culprit of the problem, so I pushed a fix on the
> repository.
>
> Since it looks like the error is quite reproducible on your setup, can you
> please test it by
> updating the code from the repository and let me know?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Luca
>
>
>
> On Jun 21, 2012, at 7:22 PM, Lucia Mirabella wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm experiencing a weird problem when using vmtk - development version. I
>> started using it last week and I've never had the same problem before (while
>> using the binary package 0.9 for mac), but I am not sure where the problem
>> comes from.
>>
>> Basically vmtk scripts work fine generally, but sometimes when I run a
>> command, nothing happens - no errors, no usual output. It just seems that
>> the command has been disregarded. And if I run the exact same command again
>> immediately after, it generally works fine. I paste here below an example,
>> where the 2 commands have been run few seconds apart without changing
>> anything else in between.
>>
>> Has any of you had a similar program or an idea on how to solve it? It
>> happens also if I run a script containing several chained commands and when
>> one fails, the whole script does...
>>
>> FYI, I'm using vmtk on Mac OS X 10.6.8.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Lucia
>>
>>
>> ibb-yogi-lucia-mac2:time0 lucia$ vmtklevelsetsegmentation -ifile
>> image_volume.vti -ofile levelsets_21j.vti
>> ibb-yogi-lucia-mac2:time0 lucia$ vmtklevelsetsegmentation -ifile
>> image_volume.vti -ofile levelsets_21j.vti
>>
>> Creating vmtkLevelSetSegmentation instance.
>> Automatic piping vmtklevelsetsegmentation
>> Parsing options vmtklevelsetsegmentation
>> ImageInputFileName = image_volume.vti
>> LevelSetsOutputFileName = levelsets_21j.vti
>> Explicit piping vmtklevelsetsegmentation
>> Input vmtklevelsetsegmentation members:
>> Id = 0
>> Disabled = 0
>> Image = None
>> ImageInputFileName = image_volume.vti
>> FeatureImage = None
>> FeatureImageInputFileName =
>> InitializationImage = None
>> InitializationImageInputFileName =
>> InitialLevelSets = None
>> InitialLevelSetsInputFileName =
>> LevelSets = None
>> LevelSetsInputFileName =
>> LevelSetsType = geodesic
>> FeatureImageType = gradient
>> NegateForInitialization = 0
>> SigmoidRemapping = 0
>> IsoSurfaceValue = 0.0
>> DerivativeSigma = 0.0
>> FeatureDerivativeSigma = 0.0
>> UpwindFactor = 1.0
>> FWHMRadius = [1.0, 1.0, 1.0]
>> FWHMBackgroundValue = 0.0
>> NumberOfIterations = 0
>> PropagationScaling = 0.0
>> CurvatureScaling = 0.0
>> AdvectionScaling = 1.0
>> EdgeWeight = 0.0
>> SmoothingIterations = 5
>> SmoothingTimeStep = 0.1
>> SmoothingConductance = 0.8
>> vmtkRenderer = None
>> LevelSetsOutputFileName = levelsets_21j.vti
>> FeatureImageOutputFileName =
>> Reading VTK XML image file.
>> Spacing 1.770833 1.770833 2.299997
>> Origin 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
>> Dimensions 144 192 32
>> Executing vmtklevelsetsegmentation ...
>> Please choose initialization type:
>> 0: colliding fronts;
>> 1: fast marching;
>> 2: threshold;
>> 3: isosurface;
>> 4: seed
>> Colliding fronts initialization.
>> Please input lower threshold ('n' for none): Please input upper threshold
>> ('n' for none): Please place two seeds (click on the image while pressing
>> Ctrl).
>> Quit renderer
>> Displaying.
>> Accept initialization? (y/n): Displaying.
>> Initialize another branch? (y/n): Please input parameters (type return to
>> accept current values, 'e' to end, 'q' to quit):
>> Progress: 100%Progress: 100%gationScaling(0.0) CurvatureScaling(0.0)
>> AdvectionScaling(1.0)]:
>> Displaying.
>> Accept result? (y/n): Please input parameters (type return to accept current
>> values, 'e' to end, 'q' to quit):
>> NumberOfIterations(300) [PropagationScaling(0.0) CurvatureScaling(0.0)
>> AdvectionScaling(1.0)]:
>> Displaying.
>> Accept result? (y/n): Merge branch? (y/n): Displaying.
>> Segment another branch? (y/n): Done executing vmtklevelsetsegmentation.
>> Writing VTK XML image file.
>> Output vmtklevelsetsegmentation members:
>> Id = 0
>> LevelSets = vtkImageData
>> FeatureImage = vtkImageData
>>
>>
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