[MINC-users] mincstats -mask

[Andrew Janke]

Sounds fair to me.

Peter and I discussed this at length when we first wrote the thing but
never managed to come to agreement.

What has just been suggested is what I was hammering for... :)


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On 20/07/05, Robert VINCENT <bert@bic.mni.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> This appears to be unchanged.  I hadn't been aware of the problem.
> 
> I think adding some kind of default behavior such as -mask_binvalue 1
> would not break anything.  But I'm curious to hear other's opinions.
> 
>         -bert
> 
> 
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Alex ZIJDENBOS wrote:
> 
> > A kind soul just alerted me to something possibly confusing with
> > mincstats, being that it will (silently) ignore a -mask argument if
> > not given at least one of -mask_{floor,ceil,range,binvalue}.
> >
> > In other words, the call
> >
> >    mincstats -mask <mask.mnc> -floor <your_favorite_treshold> <in.mnc>
> >
> > does nothing with <mask.mnc>. Although this is stated in the man page,
> > I suspect it is counterintuitive to many people; it seems to me
> > mincstats should either do something sensible with the mask (i.e.,
> > default to '-mask_binvalue 1'), or barf when given a mask argument
> > which is not used.
> >
> > I have a vague recollection of this being discussed before, but has it
> > been fixed in recent releases of minc?
> >
> > -- A
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