[MINC-development] MINC API

[Rick Hoge]

Hi John,

I would tend to agree that it's time to rethink the role of volume_io.  
I hear frequently from people and groups in the Boston area who are 
trying to do MINC development but find the current layering quite 
confusing.  I think integration of the xfm and tag file support would 
be a good thing too -

I assume that by general transformations stored as minc files you mean 
deformation fields for non-linear transformations.  We currently do a 
lot of non-linear gradient unwarping, particularly for our Allegra but 
also for other systems, and anything that would facilitate this would 
be nice!

Rick

On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 05:56  PM, John G. Sled wrote:

>
> I am looking for some feedback with respect to the API of MINC 2.0.
> An idea that came out of the MINC meeting earlier this year is that
> the libminc 2 API should have much more functionality than libminc 1,
> such that it would be an attractive alternative to the libvolume_io
> API for many applications.  The distinction made at the time was
> that the new libminc would be used in applications that managed
> their own memory whereas libvolume_io would continue to offer
> memory management and caching.
>
> My question for the list is how much functionality that is currently
> in other libraries should be put into libminc?  I think it is clear
> that libminc should have various function for setting all of the
> header attributes related coordinate systems, but what about the
> code for working with xfm files or tag files?  What about general
> transformations that are represented as MINC files?  Any comments
> would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> John
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