fix(lazy): keep the image's affine rank on the lazy crop/pad path

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File: monai/transforms/lazy/utils.py, in resample(). MONAI images carry an affine matrix recording real-world spacing and position. A 2D image still gets a 4x4 affine by default (it reserves a row/column for a z-axis even though the image has no depth).

MONAI's lazy mode defers crop/pad/flip transforms for efficiency, and has a fast-path shortcut for them. That shortcut shrinks the affine down to match the image's spatial rank, producing a 3x3 matrix for a 2D image -- but it should keep the 4x4 shape, like the eager transforms and the other (interpolating) lazy path both do. So the same operation gives a different-shaped affine depending on which code path you take.

Real impact: a 2D image lazily cropped and saved to NIfTI with SaveImage is written with z spacing 1.0 and origin 0.0 (placeholder/default values) instead of the correct 2.0 and 1.0 that the eager path writes. This can corrupt the saved file's spatial metadata, not just a cosmetic difference. It also breaks concatenating a lazy-processed tensor with an eager-processed one, since their affines are different shapes.

Fix: build the affine at the image's own full rank instead of shrinking it first.

Not the same bug as open issue #6850 (lazy padding_mode).

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The lazy crop/pad shortcut now computes and assigns the destination affine at the image affine’s rank. A parameterized test compares lazy and eager flip, center crop, and padding on a 2D MetaTensor.

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tests/transforms/functional/test_resample.py: 1

57-58: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Document the parameterized test inputs.

Add a Google-style Args: section for _ and make_transform. As per path instructions, “Docstrings should be present for all definition which describe each variable, return value, and raised exception in the appropriate section of the Google-style of docstrings.”

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Add a Google-style Args section to test_lazy_crop_pad_keeps_affine_rank
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