[MINC-users] xv error (mincview) on Ubuntu / make_model error

[Lisa F. Akiyama]

Hi Andrew,

>mincview
THANKS a lot!
The new mincview works just fine.

>masks and headmasks
Thanks for the tips - I will play around and see what works the best.


Best,
Lisa
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On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I was simply trying to use mincview because it was stated in a (probably
> > outdated) tutorial I had found.
> > I tried using mincpik, but got a strange string of odd symbols and
> > alphabets.
> > When I ran display, the ImageMagick window opened and I was able to
> select a
> > file, but got an error saying:
> >
> >> display: no decode delegate for this image format `15331.mnc' @
> >> error/constitute.c/ReadImage/532.
>
> mincpik is made to create single images rather than display a series
> of images from a single dataset. mincpik expects something like this:
>
>   $ mincpik -slice 20 -axial infile.mnc slice-20.jpg
>
> To create a JPG image of slice 20 in the axial direction.
>
> I have also decided that it's also time to update mincview, so have
> had a quick go at converting it to a bash shell script and also
> converted it from xv to display which is much more available on most
> linux distributions. (debian/ubuntu is: $ sudo apt-get install
> imagemagick).  You can give it a try here:
>
>   http://httpd.cai.uq.edu.au/~rotor/minc-beta/mincview
>
> In display you use the space bar to advance to the next image. For the
> MINC CVS types this change is now also committed to CVS as this
> removes both the xv and tcsh dependency in MINC.
>
> >> make_model
> > Are there minc commands to create these mask and headmask files?
>
> It really depends on the application, sometimes this can be done with
> simple thresholding and sometimes you have to manually trace this or
> use a tool like FSL's BET.
>
>
>
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