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#ifndef itkNeighborhoodAccessorFunctor_h
#define itkNeighborhoodAccessorFunctor_h

#include "itkImageBoundaryCondition.h"
#include "itkImageBase.h"

namespace itk
{
/** \class NeighborhoodAccessorFunctor
 * \brief Provides accessor interfaces to Get pixels and is meant to be
 * used on pointers contained within Neighborhoods. A typical user should
 * not need to use this class directly. This class is used by the
 * neighborhood iterators to get pixels from pixel pointers or assign
 * a pixel to an address.
 *
 *
 * \note
 * This work is part of the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing
 * (NAMIC), funded by the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Roadmap
 * for Medical Research, Grant U54 EB005149.
  * \ingroup ITKCommon
 */
template< typename TImage >
class NeighborhoodAccessorFunctor
{
public:
  typedef NeighborhoodAccessorFunctor           Self;
  typedef TImage                                ImageType;
  typedef typename ImageType::PixelType         PixelType;
  typedef typename ImageType::InternalPixelType InternalPixelType;
  typedef unsigned int                          VectorLengthType;
  typedef typename ImageType::OffsetType        OffsetType;

  itkStaticConstMacro(ImageDimension, unsigned int, TImage::ImageDimension);
  typedef Neighborhood< InternalPixelType *, Self::ImageDimension > NeighborhoodType;

  typedef ImageBoundaryCondition< ImageType > const *
  ImageBoundaryConditionConstPointerType;

  /** Set the pointer index to the start of the buffer. */
  inline void SetBegin(const InternalPixelType *) {}

  /** Method to dereference a pixel pointer. This is used from the
   * ConstNeighborhoodIterator as the equivalent operation to (*it).
   * This method should be preferred over the former (*it) notation.
   * The reason is that dereferencing a pointer to a location of
   * VectorImage pixel involves a different operation that simply
   * dereferencing the pointer.  */
  inline PixelType Get(const InternalPixelType *pixelPointer) const
  {
    return ( *pixelPointer );
  }

  /** Method to set the pixel value at a certain pixel pointer */
  inline void Set(InternalPixelType * & pixelPointer, const PixelType & p) const
  {
    *pixelPointer = p;
  }

  inline PixelType BoundaryCondition(
    const OffsetType & point_index,
    const OffsetType & boundary_offset,
    const NeighborhoodType *data,
    const ImageBoundaryConditionConstPointerType boundaryCondition) const
  {
    return boundaryCondition->operator()(point_index, boundary_offset, data);
  }

  void SetVectorLength(VectorLengthType) {}
  VectorLengthType SetVectorLength() { return 0; }

  /** Constructor */
  NeighborhoodAccessorFunctor() {}

  /** Destructor */
  virtual ~NeighborhoodAccessorFunctor() {}
};
} // end namespace itk

//template< typename TImage > const unsigned int
// itk::NeighborhoodAccessorFunctor<TImage>::ImageDimension;

#endif
