[MINC-development] label volumes

[Vladimir FONOV]

Hello,

>
> I would agree. I've been handling label volumes for a looong time now
> and had gotten somewhat used to the extra mincreshape call to invoke
> at the end, but it's not terribly intuitive (that's called
> 'understatement') to anybody who may not be too familiar with this.
> But what i was not aware of is that voxel-loop based code *always*
> generates slice-specific ranges which really muck up label volumes. I
> think at the very least a user should be able to force the intensity
> range calculation to be turned off.
>
> Which in turn begs the question why the set of 'standard' options is
> not uniform across all minc tools. Why would I have to know to use
> mincreshape to fix the ranges, while really i don't want to reshape
> anything? It seems to me the same set of range options should/could be
> present in minc*. This way at least a simple advice to anybody
> manipulating label volumes, would be to always make add the right
> range-preserving options to the tool they run.
>
> But i agree with Jason - it would be much better still to properly
> define a label datatype and teach all minc tools how to handle them
> the Right Way. Better, but obviously much more involved.

How about introducing some special header flag "don't scale values
unless told so" ?


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Best regards,
 Vladimir S. Fonov ~ vladimir.fonov <at> gmail.com