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+/*===================================================================
+
+The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK)
+
+Copyright (c) German Cancer Research Center,
+Division of Medical and Biological Informatics.
+All rights reserved.
+
+This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
+even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
+A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+
+See LICENSE.txt or http://www.mitk.org for details.
+
+===================================================================*/
+
+#ifndef MITKPYRAMIDREGISTRATIONMETHODHELPER_H
+#define MITKPYRAMIDREGISTRATIONMETHODHELPER_H
+
+#include <DiffusionCoreExports.h>
+
+#include <itkCommand.h>
+
+#include <itkRegularStepGradientDescentOptimizer.h>
+#include <itkMattesMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.h>
+#include <itkNormalizedCorrelationImageToImageMetric.h>
+
+#include <itkAffineTransform.h>
+#include <itkEuler3DTransform.h>
+
+#include <itkMultiResolutionImageRegistrationMethod.h>
+
+/**
+ * @brief The PyramidOptControlCommand class stears the step lenght of the
+ * gradient descent optimizer in multi-scale registration methods
+ */
+template <typename RegistrationType >
+class PyramidOptControlCommand : public itk::Command
+{
+public:
+
+  typedef itk::RegularStepGradientDescentOptimizer OptimizerType;
+
+  itkNewMacro( PyramidOptControlCommand )
+
+  void Execute(itk::Object *caller, const itk::EventObject & /*event*/)
+  {
+    RegistrationType* registration = dynamic_cast< RegistrationType* >( caller );
+
+    if( registration->GetCurrentLevel() == 0 )
+      return;
+
+    OptimizerType* optimizer = dynamic_cast< OptimizerType* >(registration->GetOptimizer());
+
+    optimizer->SetMaximumStepLength( optimizer->GetMaximumStepLength() * 0.25f );
+    optimizer->SetMinimumStepLength( optimizer->GetMinimumStepLength() * 0.1f );
+  }
+
+  void Execute(const itk::Object * /*object*/, const itk::EventObject & /*event*/){}
+};
+
+#endif // MITKPYRAMIDREGISTRATIONMETHODHELPER_H