VMTKIMAGEREADER(1)

✨ NAME ✨

vmtkimagereader — bestie, it's a vmtk script, and yes it's literally called vmtkimagereader 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Automatic piping vmtkimagereader Parsing options vmtkimagereader

vmtkimagereader : read an image and stores it in a vtkImageData object

Okay so that's the official little blurb, and here's the vibe: this thing takes your image, whatever format it's being dramatic in, and hands it back as a vtkImageData object. That's the whole main character moment. 🌟

📥 Input arguments:

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — the script id, yeah it's here twice, she contains multitudes 🙈
• -handle Self (self,1) — a handle to self. self-care fr fr 🫶
• -disabled Disabled (bool,1); default=0 — set this and execution and piping both get switched off. she's on strike 💀
• -f Format (str,1) in [vtkxml, vtk, dicom, raw, meta, tiff, png] — the file format, pick your fighter
• -guessformat GuessFormat (bool,1); default=1 — guess the file format from the extension, detective mode on 🔍
• -useitk UseITKIO (bool,1); default=1 — use the ITKIO mechanism
• -i Image (vtkImageData,1) — the input image, hi bestie 👋
• -ifile InputFileName (str,1) — the input file name
• -prefix InputFilePrefix (str,1) — the input file prefix (e.g. foo_)
• -pattern InputFilePattern (str,1) — the input file pattern (e.g. %s%04d.png)
• -extent DataExtent (int,6); default=[-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1] — the 3D extent of the image — raw and png
• -headersize HeaderSize (int,1) >= 0; default=0 — the size of the image header — raw only
• -spacing DataSpacing (float,3); default=[1.0, 1.0, 1.0] — the spacing of the image — raw, tiff, png, itk
• -origin DataOrigin (float,3); default=[0.0, 0.0, 0.0] — the origin of the image — raw, tiff, png, itk
• -orientation DesiredOrientation (str,1) in [native, axial, coronal, sagittal]; default=native — the desired data orientation — itk only
• -byteorder DataByteOrder (str,1) in [littleendian, bigendian]; default=littleendian — byte ordering — raw only
• -scalartype DataScalarType (str,1) in [float, double, int, short, ushort, uchar]; default=float — scalar type — raw only
• -filedimensionality FileDimensionality (int,1) >= 2 and <= 3; default=3 — dimensionality of the file to read — raw only
• -flip Flip (bool,3); default=[0, 0, 0] — toggle flipping of the corresponding axis. three whole booleans, one per axis, go off 👑
• -autoorientdicom AutoOrientDICOMImage (bool,1); default=1 — flip a dicom stack in order to have a left-to-right, posterio-toanterior, inferior-to-superior image; this is based on the "image orientation (patient)" field in the dicom header. yes the header said what it said, we don't gatekeep 🩻
• -ofile ImageOutputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Image writer

📤 Output arguments:

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — the script id, again, iconic of her honestly ✨
• -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self
• -o Image (vtkImageData,1) — the output image, the moment we've all been waiting for 🎀
• -rastoijkmatrix RasToIjkMatrixCoefficients (float,16); default=[1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1]
• -xyztorasmatrix XyzToRasMatrixCoefficients (float,16); default=[1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1]

heads up bestie 💖 the self and id options show up in both the input and the output lists, and -i / -o are their own thing. that's just how she is, no cap.

okay that's the whole page!! go read some images, you ate 🍓✨

this was vmtkimagereader version 1.5, dated April 2026, brought to you from the User Commands manual — mwah, ily, bye 💜🦋