/*=========================================================================

  Program:   Insight Segmentation & Registration Toolkit
  Module:    $RCSfile: itkMetaImageConverter.h,v $
  Language:  C++
  Date:      $Date: 2007/08/08 18:56:26 $
  Version:   $Revision: 1.5 $

  Copyright (c) Insight Software Consortium. All rights reserved.
  See ITKCopyright.txt or http://www.itk.org/HTML/Copyright.htm for details.

     This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even 
     the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
     PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notices for more information.

=========================================================================*/
#ifndef __itkMetaImageConverter_h
#define __itkMetaImageConverter_h

//
// metaImage.h must be included before itkImageSpatialObject.h
// to avoid an Internal Compiler Error in Visual Studio 6.0
//
#include "metaImage.h"
#include "itkImageSpatialObject.h"
#include "itkImageMaskSpatialObject.h"

namespace itk 
{

template <unsigned int NDimensions = 3, class PixelType = unsigned char>
class MetaImageConverter
{

public:

  MetaImageConverter();
  ~MetaImageConverter() {};

  typedef itk::ImageSpatialObject<NDimensions,PixelType >  SpatialObjectType;
  typedef typename SpatialObjectType::TransformType        TransformType;
  typedef itk::ImageMaskSpatialObject<NDimensions>          MaskSpatialObjectType;

  typedef typename SpatialObjectType::Pointer SpatialObjectPointer;
  typedef typename MaskSpatialObjectType::Pointer MaskSpatialObjectPointer;

  SpatialObjectPointer ReadMeta(const char* name);

  bool WriteMeta(SpatialObjectType* spatialObject,const char* name);

  SpatialObjectPointer MetaImageToImageSpatialObject(MetaImage * image);
  MaskSpatialObjectPointer MetaImageToImageMaskSpatialObject(MetaImage * image);

  MetaImage* ImageSpatialObjectToMetaImage(SpatialObjectType * spatialObject);

};

} // end namespace itk

#ifndef ITK_MANUAL_INSTANTIATION
  #include "itkMetaImageConverter.txx"
#endif


#endif
