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

[Andrew Janke]

Hi Alex,

On 21 March 2013 04:11, Alex Zijdenbos <zijdenbos at gmail.com> wrote:
> I personally think it would make much more sense to make slice-based scaling
> the special case, and global scaling the default. In other words, let users
> turn slice-based scaling on when they have an application that requires it;
> but keep it off by default. Alternatively, even adding an option to turn it
> off explicitly would I think be phenomenally useful (which I would promptly
> add to all my scripted minc* calls). Or even, let output volumes inherit the
> scaling practice of the input volume(s), like they inherit space variables.
>
> Would this be feasible?

If space is cheap then you already have a solution for this, just
convert all your native datasets to float. This will then mean that
every bit of processing past this will inherit global scaling.


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