vtkImageViewer2's renderer has no actor

I use qt and vtk to visualize dicom file. And it works well.

But when I want to add picker to my program I found imageViewer->GetRenderer()->GetActors() is empty, so I can’t pick anything.

But the dicom picture can be shown, and there is a imageactor in imageViewer. Blow is part of my code:

    imageViewer = vtkImageViewer2::New();
    imageViewer->SetRenderWindow(widget->renderWindow());
    imageViewer->SetSliceOrientation(orient);
    imageViewer->SetInputConnection(data->GetOutputPort());
    interactorStyle = myVtkInteractorStyleImage::New();


    interactorStyle->SetImageViewer(imageViewer);

    interactorStyle->NewPicker();


    widget->interactor()->SetInteractorStyle(interactorStyle);
    imageViewer->GetRenderer()->AddViewProp(imageViewer->GetImageActor());
    auto x = imageViewer->GetImageActor();
    auto t = imageViewer->GetRenderer()->GetActors();
    imageViewer->Render();
    imageViewer->GetRenderer()->ResetCamera();
    imageViewer->GetRenderer()->SetBackground(
      colors->GetColor3d("SlateGray").GetData());
    imageViewer->GetRenderWindow()->SetSize(800, 800);
    imageViewer->GetRenderWindow()->SetWindowName("ReadDICOMSeries");
    // Annotate the image with window/level and mouse over pixel information
    vtkNew<vtkCornerAnnotation> cornerAnnotation;
    cornerAnnotation->SetLinearFontScaleFactor(2);
    cornerAnnotation->SetNonlinearFontScaleFactor(1);
    cornerAnnotation->SetMaximumFontSize(20);
    cornerAnnotation->SetText(0, "Off Image");
    cornerAnnotation->SetText(3, "<window>\n<level>");
    cornerAnnotation->GetTextProperty()->SetColor(
        colors->GetColor3d("LightGoldenrodYellow").GetData());

    imageViewer->GetRenderer()->AddViewProp(cornerAnnotation);


    interactorStyle->SetAnnotation(cornerAnnotation);
    imageViewer->Render();

Although I add code to add imageactor to renderer, the value t(imageViewer->GetRenderer()->GetActors()) is still empry, x is proper imageactor. The annotation is add correctly and is one member in imageViewer->GetRenderer()->GetActors2D().

So, could someone tell why I fail to add image actor to renderer while the dicom file can show well.

Program is shown as below:

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I found ImageActor in renderer->getviewProps().
But still can’t use renderer->pickProp to pick image correctly.
Could someone tell my why?

sloved, I should use vtkcellpicker

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