From 369c7dae5e7f834096e7c9cee50f27112b420705 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vivien Delmon <vivien.delmon@creatis.insa-lyon.fr>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:38:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add test outside SearchForTrackea to avoid infinite loop

When clitkExtractLung did not find the trackea it looped infinitly.
---
 segmentation/clitkExtractLungFilter.txx | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/segmentation/clitkExtractLungFilter.txx b/segmentation/clitkExtractLungFilter.txx
index 1a94591..3a098e9 100644
--- a/segmentation/clitkExtractLungFilter.txx
+++ b/segmentation/clitkExtractLungFilter.txx
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ ComputeTracheaVolume()
 
 //--------------------------------------------------------------------
 template <class ImageType>
-void 
+void
 clitk::ExtractLungFilter<ImageType>::
 SearchForTrachea()
 {
@@ -606,8 +606,8 @@ SearchForTrachea()
   double volume = 0.0;
   int skip = GetNumberOfSlicesToSkipBeforeSearchingSeed();
   while (!stop) {
-    stop = SearchForTracheaSeed(skip);
-    if (stop) {
+    stop = true;
+    if (SearchForTracheaSeed(skip)) {
       TracheaRegionGrowing();
       volume = ComputeTracheaVolume()/1000; // assume mm3, so divide by 1000 to get cc
       if (GetWriteStepFlag()) {
@@ -619,7 +619,6 @@ SearchForTrachea()
           if (GetVerboseStepFlag()) {
             std::cout << "\t Found trachea with volume " << volume << " cc." << std::endl;
           }
-          stop = true; 
         }
         else {
           if (GetVerboseStepFlag()) {
@@ -632,6 +631,11 @@ SearchForTrachea()
           // empty the list of seed
           m_Seeds.clear();
         }
+        if (skip > 0.5 * working_input->GetLargestPossibleRegion().GetSize()[2]) {
+          // we want to skip more than a half of the image, it is probably a bug
+          std::cerr << "2 : Number of slices to skip to find trachea too high = " << skip << std::endl;
+          stop = true;
+        }
       }
       else {
         stop = true;
-- 
2.47.1