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The base of the Logarithm in ITK

I encountered the word Logarithm in the following places of ITK. But I am not sure about the base of it. Can anyone tell me the base of the usually talked Logarithm in ITK. Is is 2 or 2.71827 (i.e. the e) or 10?

The LogImageFilter: https://itk.org/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1LogImageFilter.html

and LogarithmicSigmaSteps at here: https://itk.org/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1MultiScaleHessianBasedMeasureImageFilter.html

Solution

  • The actual function LogImageFilter executes is this:

    return static_cast< TOutput >( std::log( static_cast< double >( input ) ) );

    And that means base is e. MultiScaleHessianBasedMeasureImageFilter also uses std::log (implying base e). Take a look at source code.