[MINC-users] installation problem with N3 on Linux (red hat 9)

[Andrew Janke]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, siamak ardekani wrote:

> Thanks again for the comment. Finally, I was able install N3 and make it
> run. To test the performance I tried to run nu_correct on one of the data
> files located in the N3/testing folder named block.mnc. However, I didn't
> see any difference before and after correction. I also ran the program on a
> real MRI brain data without any success (using different combinations
> of -stop, -distance, -iteration and -fwhm). Is there any appropriate way to
> check the algorithm and make sure that installation has been done ok.

John Sled (the Author of N3) is really the one who should comment here but...

The variations in intensity that N3 removes are often very subtle, and often
subtle enough that the eye cannot pick them out without a bit of "help".

To see if there really is any difference between the images do this:

   $ mincdiff input.mnc output.mnc

If there are differences (apart from the header) reported continue to something
like this:

   $ mincmath -sub input.mnc output.mnc diff.mnc
   $ register input.mnc diff.mnc

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