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Closes #692.

resample streamed the moving image and nothing else. An RFC-5 displacements or coordinates transform was converted before the graph was built, and that conversion read its field in full and allocated three to five times its size on top of it. A field the size of the volume had to fit in memory while the moving image did not.

While measuring that, a second thing turned up, and it is the one that matters more.

The region misses what a field does inside the grid

resample_bounding_box sizes a region by walking the boundary of the transformed grid. That reports a linear map exactly and says nothing about what a displacement does strictly inside it. A field that is zero on the boundary voxels and large in the middle left the region covering the grid alone, and resample then returned the default value for every pixel the bump displaces onto.

Measured on a 64x64 grid, a 160x160 moving image and a bump of 60 pixels in the middle:

  • the reported region missed the true reach by 28.6 px on y and 27.6 px on x
  • 63 of 4096 output pixels came back as 0 where the value was up to 213
  • overwriting the moving pixels outside the reported region changes 64 output pixels, which is the same fact without an interpolation oracle

The same appears in 3D, and on the ITK-transform branch, so the cause is the boundary walk rather than the RFC-5 conversion. This PR fixes the RFC-5 field path; the ITK-transform branch is #696.

What replaces it

A displacements or coordinates transform is the identity plus a displacement, so the region is now the grid's own image moved and widened by the range that displacement takes.

The range comes from the field itself. A chunk is read, two numbers per component are kept, the values are dropped. A field is read through a kernel that is non-negative and sums to one, so a displacement anywhere is a convex combination of the values around it and lies between their smallest and largest: a bound, not a sample.

The range is kept rather than its magnitude, which matters in practice. A field that shifts every point the same way moves the region instead of widening it, so the region for a constant field is still the affine one to the pixel, and test_rfc5_displacements_matches_the_itk_field_it_came_from passes unchanged.

What each block reads

Each output block reads the window of the field its own points fall in, and that window becomes the block's ITK transform. What sizes the block's moving read is the range of displacement that window holds, so a quiet slab pays a quiet halo instead of the worst displacement in the volume. The field is passed over once when the graph is built, a chunk at a time, to learn the range per chunk; nothing else about it is held.

A block whose window falls outside the field takes the identity, which is what ITK does there anyway.

Measured

3 x 256^3 float32 field, 201 MB, resident growth over the source buffer:

graph build after compute
before 1508 MB 1581 MB
after 236 MB 279 MB

The streamed result is the undecomposed result pixel for pixel on a float32 image. A window declares its own origin, which changes the last bits of the continuous index ITK computes from it, so on a float64 image the two agree to about 1e-13 rather than exactly. That is recorded in the resample docstring.

The crop window keeps one lattice point per side. Zero is sufficient and one is safe: checked over about 700 blocks, 2D and 3D, aligned and unaligned, round and non-round field geometry, and a window one point short per side is not sufficient.

Benchmark

Against main, which converts the whole field once and hands it to the pipeline per block. Same inputs, 4 workers, and the checksums are equal, so the outputs are identical to the bit.

scenario main this branch
2D 2048^2, 128^2 chunks, 256 blocks build 20.96 s, compute 8.45 s, +754 MB build 0.19 s, compute 0.58 s, +0 MB
3D 256^3, 64^3 chunks, 64 blocks build 31.87 s, compute 13.87 s, +4156 MB build 0.06 s, compute 0.65 s, +0 MB

On main the whole field crosses into wasm once per block while the graph is built, and again inside each block's resample. Here a block carries only its window, and the region it reads is arithmetic.

Profiled after the first round, the remaining build time was three quarters a wasm round trip per block that measured nothing but the identity: a field transform's linear part. _identity_region computes that region directly in resample's per-block loop, and test_the_identity_region_is_the_pipelines pins it to the pipeline's own answer over randomized geometry, all seven reported fields. The public resample_bounding_box stays on the pipeline: it is called once per invocation, and the pipeline remains the one authority for its answer. What is left of the build is the single pass over the field for the per-chunk ranges, and the compute is the resampling itself: profiled single-threaded, wasm execution takes 0.44 s of a 0.9 s compute, and the Python around it under 0.1 s.

TypeScript

TypeScript has no resample, but resampleBoundingBox had the same boundary walk and the same whole-field read, so both halves are mirrored there. fieldImage, fieldWindow and fieldDisplacementRange are the counterparts of the Python helpers.

Design

The shape is KonfAI's Resample, moved upstream rather than reimplemented: the field is read region by region, the window a region samples is its own box, and the range of the values just read bounds that region's pull. That is the direction of #650 and #667, one streamed resampler upstream instead of a bespoke one downstream.

Base

On main, which carries #674.

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  • New Features

    • Added streaming support for displacement and coordinate fields during resampling.
    • Improved handling of chunked, multiscale, and lazy data with windowed reads.
    • Resampling bounds now account for interior displacements, reversed axes, and out-of-field regions.
    • Added validation for field orientation, component layout, and supported field types.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected bounding regions for fields with interior displacement.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for chunking, multiscale data, windowing, coordinate fields, and out-of-field behavior.

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RFC-5 displacement and coordinate fields now use shared validation, chunk-wise displacement bounds, block-wise field streaming, and field-aware bounding boxes. Python and TypeScript tests cover chunking, multiscale fields, coordinate fields, restricted reads, and interior displacement extrema.

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Displacement-field validation and bounds
py/ngff_zarr/displacement_field_transform.py, ts/src/utils/displacement_field_transform.ts
Shared validators support displacement and coordinate fields. Field windows and chunk-wise displacement ranges support eager, Dask, and lazy data.
Transform-aware bounding boxes
py/ngff_zarr/resample_bounding_box.py, ts/src/io/resample_bounding_box-shared.ts
Field transforms use identity boundary calculation followed by per-axis displacement expansion. Other transforms retain the existing boundary path.
Streamed RFC-5 resampling
py/ngff_zarr/resample.py
Resampling reads field chunks per output block, assembles cropped regions, builds block-specific ITK transforms, and adds field data to Dask dependencies.
Streaming and bounding-box validation
py/test/test_resample_bounding_box.py, py/test/test_resample_field_streaming.py, ts/test/resample_bounding_box_test.ts
Tests cover whole-image equivalence, interior extrema, chunk-layout invariance, restricted reads, coordinate fields, multiscale fields, and out-of-field identity behavior.

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  participant resample
  participant resample_bounding_box
  participant field_displacement_bound
  participant field_array
  participant ITK_transform
  resample->>resample_bounding_box: compute the moving-image region
  resample_bounding_box->>field_displacement_bound: calculate field bounds
  field_displacement_bound->>field_array: read intersecting field chunks
  field_array-->>field_displacement_bound: return displacement ranges
  resample->>field_array: assemble the block field crop
  resample->>ITK_transform: create the block-specific field transform
  ITK_transform-->>resample: resample the output block
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Chunk by chunk through thinning air
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low = int(np.floor(min(corners))) - margin
high = int(np.ceil(max(corners))) + margin + 1
window.append((max(0, min(low, extent)), max(0, min(high, extent))))

P1 Badge Include identity displacement when grids cross field edges

When a fixed grid or output block only partially overlaps the field and the in-field displacements are all on one side of zero, clamping the window here loses the fact that some samples are outside the field. ITK applies zero displacement outside the field, but FieldBound.over(window) then returns only the nonzero in-field range; _grown can consequently shift the entire source region and omit the identity-mapped pixels, causing resample to return the default value for valid output pixels. Preserve whether the unpadded sampling extent crossed a field boundary and include zero in that block's displacement bound.


const low = Math.floor(Math.min(...corners)) - margin;
const high = Math.ceil(Math.max(...corners)) + margin + 1;
return [
Math.max(0, Math.min(low, extent)),
Math.max(0, Math.min(high, extent)),
] as [number, number];

P1 Badge Include zero for partially out-of-field TypeScript grids

When the fixed grid extends both inside and outside a field whose in-field displacements are, for example, a constant positive offset, this clamping makes fieldDisplacementRange report only that offset. Points outside the field actually use zero displacement, so grown shifts the whole bounding box and omits the identity-mapped part of the moving image. Track whether the unpadded grid crosses the field boundary and union zero into the reported range in that case.


const field = transform as Displacements | Coordinates;
const image = fieldImage(
field,
fieldFor(field, options.fields),
fixedSpatial,

P2 Badge Reject oriented fields before computing an intrinsic box

For a field with a non-identity axesOrientations, this branch accepts the image and computes a range using only intrinsic scale and translation. The public ResampleBoundingBoxOptions.fields contract explicitly says such a field is refused because this branch cannot place its grid, and the Python counterpart performs that validation; the TypeScript path instead returns a plausible bounding box that ignores the orientation. Check the field direction here and reject non-identity orientation before computing the range.


const beyond = [...item.inputAxes, ...item.outputAxes]
.filter((axis) => axis >= ndim);

P2 Badge Reject invalid byDimension axis indices

When callers use the exported createByDimension helper or pass a structural ByDimension, the axis arrays are merely number[], but this check rejects only values greater than or equal to ndim. Negative or fractional indices therefore proceed: a negative output index crashes at matrix[outputAxis], while an invalid input index writes an object property rather than a matrix element and can produce a silently singular or incorrect affine. Require every input and output index to be an integer in [0, ndim).

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Both P1s were real. Reproduced, fixed and pinned in b803885.

Zero missing from the range when a grid reaches past the field. A 64x64 grid over a 32x32 field of constant -5, against a single whole-image ITK call: 496 of 4096 output pixels wrong, by up to 100. The window already knew it had clamped; it now says so, and the range takes zero in when it did. The regression test fails without that (test_a_grid_reaching_past_the_field_keeps_the_points_it_displaces_nothing, and a grid reaching past the field keeps its undisplaced part in TypeScript).

The TypeScript half of the same thing, fixed the same way: fieldWindow returns the window and whether the grid leaves the field, fieldDisplacementRange takes the second as outside.

The oriented field. Correct, and it was a regression: the refusal used to come from ngffDisplacementFieldToItkTransform, which this branch no longer calls. It is now checkUnorientedField, its own exported check, which the conversion also calls so there is one message rather than two. Python already had the equivalent.

The byDimension axis indices are outside this branch. ts/src/utils/ngff_transform_to_itk_transform.ts is not among the 8 files here; the check belongs to #674. The finding holds and the Python port shares it, worse: axis >= ndim lets a negative index through, and where JavaScript throws on matrix[-1], numpy wraps around and returns a plausible wrong matrix. That is the same class as #674's own "refuse the conversions that returned a wrong matrix silently", so it belongs there.

Suites after the fixes: 1261 Python, 681 TypeScript.

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@vboussot can the commits please be squashed into logical commits? 🙏

The pipeline sizes a region by walking the boundary of the transformed
grid. That reports a linear map exactly and misses whatever a displacement
does strictly inside the grid: a bump that is zero on the boundary voxels
left the region unchanged, and resample then returned the default value for
the pixels it displaces onto. Measured on a 64x64 grid with a 60-pixel bump
in the middle: 63 of 4096 output pixels wrong, by up to 213.

A displacements or coordinates transform is the identity plus a
displacement, so the region is now the grid's own image moved and widened
by the range that displacement takes. The range comes from the field
itself, read one chunk at a time with two numbers kept per component and
the values dropped: a field is read through a kernel that is non-negative
and sums to one, so a displacement anywhere is a convex combination of the
values around it and lies between their smallest and largest. That is a
bound, not a sample. Keeping the range rather than a magnitude means a
field that shifts every point the same way moves the region instead of
widening it, and the region for a constant field is the affine one to the
pixel. Zero joins the range when the grid reaches past the field, where ITK
displaces nothing: a field that displaces every point it covers one way
otherwise carried the region off the points it does not cover, 496 of 4096
pixels wrong on a half-covered grid.

The pass reads only the chunks the caller's window touches, cut on chunk
borders, and names the meta its extrema map produces rather than leaning on
dask's dtype fallback. The identity's own region is also plain arithmetic;
_identity_region computes it for the per-block callers and a property test
pins it to the pipeline's answer over randomized geometry, all seven
reported fields, while resample_bounding_box itself stays on the pipeline.
A field carrying an anatomical orientation is refused in both ports, as the
conversion it bypasses already refused it.

On a 201 MB field the bounding box held 1508 MB before and 236 MB now.
resample streamed the moving image and nothing else: an RFC-5
displacements or coordinates transform was converted before the graph was
built, and that conversion read its field in full and allocated three to
five times its size on top. A field the size of the volume had to fit in
memory while the moving image did not.

Each block now reads the window of the field its own points fall in, and
that window becomes the block's ITK transform. What sizes the block's
moving read is the range of displacement that window holds, so a quiet
slab pays a quiet halo; a block whose window is empty takes the identity,
which is what ITK does beyond the field. The field is passed over once
when the graph is built, a chunk at a time, to learn the range per chunk,
and the per-block region is the arithmetic identity region widened by it:
profiled at 256 blocks, the pipeline round trip it replaces was three
quarters of the graph build.

Measured against the whole-field path on the same inputs, checksums equal:
2D 2048^2 over 256 blocks, 29.4 s and +754 MB there, under a second and
flat here; 3D 256^3 over 64 blocks, 45.7 s and +4156 MB there. On float32
the streamed result is the undecomposed result pixel for pixel; a window
declares its own origin, which changes the last bits of the continuous
index ITK computes from it, so on float64 the two agree to about 1e-13.
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History rewritten into two commits, the bound and the streaming; the tree is byte-identical to the nine-commit head and the branch is rebased onto current main. Each commit stands alone: the first passes 109 Python and 40 TypeScript tests without the second. Full suite on the head: 1464 passed, 3 skipped.

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@vboussot looks great!

Did you re-run the elastix notebook? Are there any changes to the embedded figures there?

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The notebook registers rigid + affine, so nothing on this branch reaches its path: running that same linear composite through resample_bounding_box and resample on main and on this branch gives identical block regions and identical resampled pixels, hash for hash. So the embedded figures are unchanged and I left the outputs as they are, though I'm happy to re-run the whole thing against the S3 stores if you would rather see a fresh execution.

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Re-ran it, bbeef02. The geometry is identical to the committed run, the pyramid table, the registration, the output grid and the block/region line all match character for character; what moved is the timings and peak RSS, which are now this machine's. One fix was needed to read the stores at all, and it is independent of this branch: obstore does not resolve the bucket region the way fsspec did, so the anonymous read was going to us-east-1 for a bucket in us-west-2, and it fails the same way on released 0.45.0.

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