[MINC-users] [Fwd: OHBM Announcement 3/9/04]
Jon Erik Ween
minc-users@bic.mni.mcgill.ca
Thu Mar 11 20:21:03 2004
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I would be in favor of the Minc format as a rich, compact and elegant
standard. I wonder, though, how significant the issue is as long as all
formats are transparent, non-proprietary and translatable? Knowing the
community, I can't imagine there will be 100% agreement any time soon
no matter what happens with the Analyze format. I would only hope that
the capable minc-group is actively included in the development of a
more widely adopted, uniform standard. I notice they are not mentioned
in the statement!
Jon
Jon Erik Ween, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Cognitive and Cerebrovascular Neurology
Director, Stroke Program
Loma Linda University
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On Wednesday, March 10, 2004, at 03:30 PM, Yasser Ad-Dab'bagh wrote:
>
> Should we be concerned?
>
> Yasser
>
> -----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Organization for Human Brain Mapping <info@humanbrainmapping.org>
> To: yasser.ad-dabbagh@MAIL.MCGILL.CA
> Subject: OHBM Announcement 3/9/04
> Date: 09 Mar 2004 15:43:11 -0700
>
>
>
> Dear OHBM Colleagues:
>
> We are writing on behalf of the Data Format Working Group (DFWG), a
> committee set up under the Neuroimaging Informatics Technology
> Initiative (NIfTI, http://nifti.nimh.nih.gov), which is jointly
> sponsored by NIMH and NINDS. We have been charged with arriving "at a
> technical solution to the problem of multiple data formats in fMRI." We
> have met several times and decided that one of our first priorities is
> to describe and attempt to merge the variants of the ANALYZE(TM) 7.5
> image header that are being used by the developers of the major fMRI
> data analysis packages.
>
> We have defined a compromise data format, dubbed NIfTI-1, that is based
> on these variants and is "mostly compatible" with the ANALYZE(TM) 7.5
> header, while using many of the "unused and lesser-used" fields for
> fMRI-specific purposes. Developers of five of the major fMRI data
> analysis packages (FSL, SPM, AFNI, BrainVoyager, and FreeSurfer) have
> agreed to use this compromise format in the future, and will support
> both input and output of the NIfTI-1 format. A considerable effort was
> required to reach agreement with all of these developers. Given the
> extremely limited space in the 348 byte header, it is unlikely that any
> substantial changes will be possible in the NIfTI-1 format if we are to
> retain the support of all five packages.
>
> We envisage NIfTI-1 replacing the current range of ANALYZE 7.5 variants
> both for file interchange and data storage. NIfTI-1, while still
> limited, contains a considerably richer set of metadata than exists in
> the ANALYZE-based formats.
>
> As of this message, the NIfTI-1 format specification, demonstration
> programs, and related documents are being released to the general
> neuroimaging community on the DFWG website
> http://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/dfwg/ along with an interactive forum for
> comments and discussion. The DFWG committee will next meet in early May
> 2004, and any comments you care to make and would like to have
> considered at the next committee meeting should be received by April
> 15,
> 2004.
>
> Please feel free to pass this message along to any other person you
> think might be interested. Comments and questions should be directed
> to
> the NIfTI-1 interactive forum, and not to DFWG committee members via
> e-mail. The full list of DFWG committee members can be found at the
> DFWG website.
>
> Stephen Strother, PhD
> Chair, Data Format Working Group
> NIfTI, National Institutes of Health
> and
> Professor of Radiology
> University of Minnesota
> mailto:steve@neurovia.umn.edu
>
>
> Robert W. Cox, PhD
> Director, Scientific and Statistical Computing Core
> National Institute of Mental Health
> National Institutes of Health
> Department of Health and Human Service
> Mailto: rwcox@nih.gov http://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/dfwg/
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> Yasser Ad-Dab'bagh, MD, DPM, FRCPC.
> Divisions of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (Montreal Children's
> Hospital), and of Neuroscience (Brain-Imaging Center of the Montreal
> Neurological Institute), McGill University.
>
> Tel: (514) 412-4400 ext 22359 [MCH], (514) 398-8330 [BIC]
> Fax: (514) 412-4337 [MCH]
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> yasser.ad-dabbagh@mail.mcgill.ca
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