[MINC-development] MINC2 file with floating-point voxels and slice normalization

[Robert VINCENT]

Hi all,

My recollection is pretty dim at this point, but I think we probably 
assumed that the image min and max could be used to scale even fp voxels, 
even if it didn't really make sense. It's not like fp normalization is 
completely unheard-of.

FWIW, NIfTI-1 defined per-image scaling of fp voxels, although it was 
clearly not the recommended usage. I probably found it hard to believe 
NIfTI-1 would be more general than MINC in any area...

     -bert

On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, Vladimir S. FONOV wrote:

> Hell Everybody,
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> On 2013-01-21, at 10:28 AM, "John G. Sled" <jgsled at phenogenomics.ca> wrote:
>> Vlad's question of whether to dispense with slice scaling entirely is worth further discussion.
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> I never said that we need to dispose of slice-scaling in case of storing floating-point values in integer volume. I said that we need to dispose of per-slice min-max information in case of floating-point volume, since it is useless  and confusing.  At least it was confusing enough for the MINC2 api authors to misinterpret.
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> Best regards,
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> Vladimir S. FONOV ~ v.s.fonov <at> ilmarin.info
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