diff --git a/Modules/US/Testing/mitkUSPipelineTest.cpp b/Modules/US/Testing/mitkUSPipelineTest.cpp
index 12b7428fbb..70d1d58d7c 100644
--- a/Modules/US/Testing/mitkUSPipelineTest.cpp
+++ b/Modules/US/Testing/mitkUSPipelineTest.cpp
@@ -1,105 +1,103 @@
 /*=========================================================================
 
 Program:   Medical Imaging & Interaction Toolkit
 Language:  C++
 Date:      $Date: 2008-02-25 17:27:17 +0100 (Mo, 25 Feb 2008) $
 Version:   $Revision: 7837 $
 
 Copyright (c) German Cancer Research Center, Division of Medical and
 Biological Informatics. All rights reserved.
 See MITKCopyright.txt or http://www.mitk.org/copyright.html 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.
 
 =========================================================================*/
 
 #include "mitkUSVideoDevice.h"
 #include "mitkTestingMacros.h"
 #include "mitkUSImageToUSImageFilter.h"
 #include "mitkPadImageFilter.h"
 
 // START TESTFILER
 // This is an specialization of the USImageToUSImageFIlter
 
   class TestUSFilter : public mitk::USImageToUSImageFilter
     {
     protected:
       TestUSFilter() : mitk::USImageToUSImageFilter(){};
       virtual ~TestUSFilter(){};
 
     public:
       mitkClassMacro(TestUSFilter, mitk::USImageToUSImageFilter);
       itkNewMacro(Self);
 
     virtual void GenerateOutputInformation()
       {     
-      MITK_INFO << "GenerateOutputInformation called in Testfilter!";
       mitk::Image::Pointer inputImage  = (mitk::Image*) this->GetInput(0);
-      mitk::Image::Pointer output = this->GetOutput(0);
-      itkDebugMacro(<<"GenerateOutputInformation()");
+      mitk::Image::Pointer output      = (mitk::Image*) this->GetOutput(0);    
      if(inputImage.IsNull()) return;
      };
     
 
     void GenerateData()
       {
       MITK_INFO << "GenerateData called in Testfilter!";
       //mitk::Image::Pointer ni = const_cast<mitk::Image*>(this->GetInput(0));
       mitk::USImage::Pointer ni = this->GetInput(0);
       mitk::USImage::Pointer result = mitk::USImage::New();
 
       result->Initialize(ni);
       result->SetImportVolume(ni->GetData());
 
       mitk::USImageMetadata::Pointer meta = ni->GetMetadata();
       meta->SetDeviceComment("Test");
       result->SetMetadata(meta);
       SetNthOutput(0, result);
       MITK_INFO << "GenerateData completed in Testfilter!";
       };
     };
 
  
 // END TESTFILTER
 
 class mitkUSPipelineTestClass
 {
  
 public:
 
   static void TestPipelineUS(std::string videoFilePath)
   {   
    // Set up a pipeline
     mitk::USVideoDevice::Pointer videoDevice = mitk::USVideoDevice::New("C:\\Users\\maerz\\Videos\\Debut\\us.avi", "Manufacturer", "Model");
     TestUSFilter::Pointer filter = TestUSFilter::New();
     videoDevice->Update();
     filter->SetInput(videoDevice->GetOutput());
     filter->Update();
     MITK_TEST_CONDITION_REQUIRED(videoDevice.IsNotNull(), "videoDevice should not be null after instantiation");
    
 
     //mitk::USImage::Pointer result = dynamic_cast<mitk::USImage *> (filter->GetOutput(0));
     mitk::USImage::Pointer result = filter->GetOutput(0);
     MITK_TEST_CONDITION_REQUIRED(result.IsNotNull(), "resulting images should not be null");
     std::string model = result->GetMetadata()->GetDeviceModel();
     MITK_TEST_CONDITION_REQUIRED(model.compare("Model") == 0   , "Resulting images should have their metadata set correctly");
     
   }
 
 };
 
 /**
 * This function is setting up a pipeline and checks the output for validity.
 */
 int mitkUSPipelineTest(int  argc , char* argv[])
 {
   MITK_TEST_BEGIN("mitkUSPipelineTest");
 
      mitkUSPipelineTestClass::TestPipelineUS(argv[1]);
     
     
 
   MITK_TEST_END();
 }
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