[MINC-users] FSL and MINC

[Sridar Narayanan]

> 
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Jason Lerch wrote:
> 
>>>   Lastly, where is mincbet? It's listed in the wiki. Seems useful.
>> 
>> ~rotor/opt/irix_bin/mincbet
>> 
>> (Andrew, this might be a hint to move it to a more convenient place ;-))
> 
> Well on this one I am of two minds.
> 
> Do I:
> 
>    a) update my version of the I/O module of FSL so that MINC just "works"
>        in FSL
> 
> or
> 
>    b) Write a more complte stand alone mincbet by just using the approriate
>        bits of bet.
> 
> I _like_ (a), but this could introduce a world of headaches (more
> AFNI-ANALYZE-NIFTI-MINC conversion/orientation problems).
> 
> Does anyone else out there wish to cast their vote?  I have a working version
> of 
> a) for a previous version of FSL.  I don't see why it would work with the new
> version but haven't checked.

Andrew, if you can devise a general solution that allows all of FSL (bet,
FEAT, SIENA, etc.) to "just work" on MINC files, that would be extremely
useful to a number of people in our lab. I suppose the main question is how
much effort would it be to stay in sync with new versions of FSL? Also,
would you be updating the I/O module of FSL such that the constituent
programs could *write" MINC as well as read?

Sridar