[MINC-users] using minc with ITK

[Audette, Michel]

Thanks to you both, Jason and Andrew. 

One last thing, and I'll stop making a nuisance of myself. Has anyone made available online a justification of MINC, in terms of pros and cons, against competing image formats, including software tools based on them? 

It would really bug me to champion MINC, in part based on all my image analysis being MINC-based, only to fall short in convincing the other researchers here at ICCAS to adopt MINC as its definitive medical image format... which might entail that any future work that I do will be based on DICOM or something else. In other words, there must be a better justification on which I can draw than my prior experience with it (other than MINC being self-contained in one file, especially if DICOM is significantly more prevalent...)

Cheers, 

Michel 

Michel Audette, Ph.D. 
Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery (ICCAS)
Philipp-Rosenthal-Strasse 55
Leipzig, Germany
Phone: ++49 (0) 341 / 97 - 1 20 13 
Fax: ++49 (0) 341 / 97 - 1 20 09 
 

 


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Von: minc-users-bounces at bic.mni.mcgill.ca [mailto:minc-users-bounces at bic.mni.mcgill.ca] Im Auftrag von Jason Lerch
Gesendet: February 22, 2006 2:21 PM
An: MINC users mailing list
Betreff: Re: [MINC-users] using minc with ITK


On 22-Feb-06, at 8:05 AM, Audette, Michel wrote:

> While on the subject, can you, or anyone, explain to me the  
> motivation behind MINC going from a netcdf-based to a hdf5-based  
> implementation? I might as well include this issue in my presentation.

There are others on this listed who can due a better job of  
addressing this question than I, but the main reasons are the following:

* block-structured storage
* multi-resolution images
* internal compression

In short, HDF5 has better support for extremely large files,  
something MINC2 was designed to support.

Cheers,

Jason
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