Crash when using Volumes module on Windows 7 after 4.9 version

Operating system:
Slicer version:
Expected behavior:
Actual behavior:

I could not reproduce the crash.

Do you have this problem with all volumes that you are trying to visualize? For example, does everything work well wit MRHead and CTChest sample data sets?

Thank you very much.
The crash phenomenon never happened for the Volumes module by the sample data.
Hum, maybe the problem is from my data. But I still couldnot understand well that I can deal with it in 4.6 version successfully.

If it’s possible to share data that reproduces the crash we’d like to fix it. Thanks for the report.

Thanks for sending me the data to check - I was able to replicate the issue on Slicer 4.8 on the mac. and also on a build local build with Qt5/vtk9 on mac, but not with a local build with Qt4/vtk7. The stack trace is below, but it’s not clear to me what is going on.

If I save the data as nrrd and then load it I am able to read it and then go into the volumes module.

I suspect there is an issue with the nifti header that causes a memory corruption and that leads to the crash. How was the nii.gz file created?

Process:               Slicer [76322]
Path:                  /Applications/Slicer-4.8.0.app/Contents/MacOS/Slicer
Identifier:            ???
Version:               4.8.0 (4.8.0)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Slicer [76322]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2017-12-23 11:24:24.795 -0500
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.13.2 (17C88)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        AE9D173E-A1E8-E500-62F7-C31D0E540E6E


Time Awake Since Boot: 320000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:
abort() called
*** error for object 0x111e7e800: incorrect checksum for freed object - object was probably modified after being freed.
 

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib        	0x00007fff63fdce3e __pthread_kill + 10
1   libsystem_pthread.dylib       	0x00007fff6411b150 pthread_kill + 333
2   libsystem_c.dylib             	0x00007fff63f39312 abort + 127
3   libsystem_malloc.dylib        	0x00007fff64041b28 szone_error + 596
4   libsystem_malloc.dylib        	0x00007fff6404313f small_free_list_remove_ptr_no_clear + 790
5   libsystem_malloc.dylib        	0x00007fff64037191 small_malloc_from_free_list + 403
6   libsystem_malloc.dylib        	0x00007fff6403589d szone_malloc_should_clear + 1600
7   libsystem_malloc.dylib        	0x00007fff64035201 malloc_zone_malloc + 103
8   libsystem_malloc.dylib        	0x00007fff640377cf realloc + 96
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28  libqSlicerVolumesModuleWidgets.dylib	0x000000012c8d51d5 qSlicerScalarVolumeDisplayWidget::updateWidgetFromMRML() + 149
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The problem is that the file contains incorrectly computed scalar range (or maybe scalar range is computed somewhere incorrectly). When Volume’s module GUI is initialized, its histogram is computed. Histogram computation uses scalar range to determine histogram’s memory buffer size. If scalar range is incorrect then it writes outside the allocated buffer, causing memory corruption.

I’ve observed ctkVTKHistogram causing memory corruptions several times in the past but I could not pin down the issue until now.

I’ve created a pull request to fix the issue in CTK: https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/779

Until it is fixed, you should remove the incorrect scalar range from images (e.g., by writing to a format that has human-readable header, such as nrrd, and remove scalar range information using a text editor).

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Thanks for the prompt reply!
The dataset of "nifti " was created by Mango A free software. I had converted the format from DICOM due to its larger size.
I think I should analysis DICOM by 3d slicer directly in the future avoiding unnecessary troulbe.

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Thanks for the CTK fix @lassoan, it’s important to avoid the memory corruption.

In this case the source of the error is in vtkITK. This code uses cal_min and cal_max to set the scalar range for a nifti file:

But we should not be relying on that being correctly populated in files we read (even documentation on what is meant to be in that field is hard to find and the nih link is currently dead).

The vtkITK code also uses fields from Meta and NRRD headers to set the scalar range and this is dangerous because other VTK probably code trusts this to do pointer arithmetic and other calculations.

I’d vote to remove this feature from vtkITK and let VTK compute the scalar range when needed.

NIR project needed reading of scalar range from file. For them, computing scalar range increased time to display the image very significantly.

However, I completely agree that we cannot trust these values (crash if incorrect).

Looks like there’s been some optimization of CalculateScalarRange in recent VTK versions.

Would an estimated scalar range work for the NIR use case? Typically sampling just a few percent of the image gives a robust estimate (and maybe the exact value could be calculated in a separate thread or something if needed).

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