[Loris-dev] importing MINC files into LORIS - registerFile.pl script ?

[István Ákos Mórocz]

sounds good, dear Mouna - we will
give a try this coming tuesday in
the afternoon !  thanks for your
email !  bye, pisti

On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, Mouna Safi-Harab wrote:

> Hi Pisti,
> I will send a more detailed answer after the long weekend, but for now, the easiest way for you to know how the script functions is
> by simply typing at the command line (from where the MRI codebase directory):
> registerFile.pl -help
> 
> This applies to almost all .pl scripts we have in the codebase.
> 
> From that, you can see all the arguments and options you have to be able to run the script. But almost inevitably, you will have to
> write a wrapper script that is specific to your project and how you want to import the data (with some variable initialisation) that
> itself will call the registerFile.pl script.
> 
> Give it a try, and we can talk more after the weekend.
> 
> - Mouna
> 
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 12:47 PM, István Ákos Mórocz <istvan.morocz at mcgill.ca> wrote:
>       dear LORIS developers,
>
>       as mentioned before in today's LORIS meeting, our group needs to learn
>       how to import some 42000 old MRI studies in MINC format into LORIS.
>
>       we learned in the mean time how to create CANDIDATE and VISIT entries
>       in LORIS via its jason API.  because there is no API for DICOM upload
>       (and because we may use our own dcm2minc pipeline) we were delighted
>       to hear from Mouna last week that one may go another route and import
>       MINC files actually directly into LORIS - so that subsequently Louis
>       Collins et al will be able to deal with QA and other processing steps.
>
>       question : can you refer us to weblinks, HOWTOs and any material on
>       using your registerFile.pl script and related environment so we get
>       this MINC upload mechanism working as soon as possible ?
>
>       thanks much, bye, pisti
> 
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