Display a Simpleitk image in a picture Box

Question

I want to read a dicom or png image with simpleitk in a C# program and display the result in a pictureBox. I understand that picture Box allow only "system.drawing.image" and not itk. Is there a way to do it. Her is my code :

OpenFileDialog fd = new OpenFileDialog();
fd.Filter = "PNG|*.png";
if (fd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
    string file = fd.FileName;
    ImageFileReader reader = new ImageFileReader();
    reader.SetFileName(file);
    itk.simple.Image image = reader.Execute();
     Box.Image = image;
}

Answer 1

You will need access to the raw image buffer which SimpleITK holds. This is accessible via the Image::GetBufferAs"TYPE" methods.

Here is a brief example on using this method:

  // Cast so we know the the pixel type
  input = SimpleITK.Cast(input, PixelId.sitkFloat32);
  // calculate the nubmer of pixels
  VectorUInt32 size = input.GetSize();
  int len = 1;
  for (int dim = 0; dim < input.GetDimension(); dim++) {
    len *= (int)size[dim];
  }
  IntPtr buffer = input.GetBufferAsFloat();

I believe this can then be converted into to a Bitmap with .Net.