[MINC-users] spatially-variant mincblur?

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 02:58:50PM -0700, Olivier Rousset wrote:
> I was wondering whether a non-stationary kernel can be
> specified with mincblur (apparently not in the current
> version), or if alternatively there would be a program
> that could do that? I am thinking that maybe
> stationary kernels could be used on parts of the
> images [where spatial resolution is assumed constant]
> and then combine the resulting blurred images [since
> these operations can be considered as linear]; this
> would involve masking of the image with appropriate
> masks defined using "resolution isocontours".

It sounds like you are after a non-stationary isotropic smoothing --
as opposed to a non-isotropic ("don't blur across edges") smoothing.

Just out of curiousity: what sort of data requires that treatment?

-Steve