[MINC-users] Mincextract to get voxel values and coordinates?

[Jason Lerch]

On Nov 16, 2004, at 2:46 PM, Robert VINCENT wrote:

> Hi Dylan,
>
> Hmmm... I took a look at the code, and minctotag rounds the voxel data
> values before writing them to the tag file.  I have no idea why, but 
> that
> seems to be how the author defined the tag file format.

The reason is that it expects to work with label volumes. But I suppose 
adding a switch telling the app whether to round or not might not be 
too bad an idea.

Jason


>
> It it becomes a nuisance it would be easy enough to fix, or to offer an
> alternative through mincextract.
>
> 	-bert
>
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Dylan WAGNER wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>>   Hi Jason,
>>
>>        Thanks for the response. I wasn't aware of minctotag, and after
>> sniffing around, wow there's a lot more minc apps than on the wiki or 
>> bic
>> pages alone. I suppose that sounds a bit naive. I stumbled across a 
>> list
>>  at http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/~stever/software_map.html
>> As I use some of these I'll try and add them to the wiki.
>>
>>    A few questions regarding minctotag.
>>
>>    So far it works great, however:
>>
>>       Voxel intensities are integers? The same minc in register gives 
>> me a
>> fair bit more precision. However for my purposes integers are fine, 
>> I'm
>> just curious why.
>>
>>
>>       Also thank you for the location of mincbet. So now I'm 
>> confronted
>> with three choices. Mincbet, skullstrip and the preprocessing method 
>> on
>> on the wiki page for VBM. It's a bloody buffet of skullstripping 
>> methods!
>> Any reason why one would be better? The method on the VBM seems more
>> tailored to each individual subject, though longer to carry out.
>>
>>              Best,
>>                    DDW
>>
>>
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