[MINC-users] NMI for minc volumes

[Vladimir S. Fonov]

Hello,

I've been using a wrapper around ITK cost functions to achieve this. 
Right now it's not distributed as part of any package, but it is not 
difficult to compile.

On 25/04/2012 10:12 AM, jon pipitone wrote:
> Hey MINC Users,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone here knows about, or has written, some code to
> compute the normalised mutual information of two minc volumes[1]?
>
> I see that minctracc uses nmi, and has a -measure option to output various
> objective functions[2], except not NMI.  I'm hoping that there is a magical
> utility out there to do this already that I'm just not aware of.
>
> Otherwise, I figure I'd dip into the minctracc code and see if I can expose
> the measure either through the -measure flag, or as a separate utility (a
> la xcorr_vol).  If I go this route and anyone has helpful pointers or
> gotchas, let me know.
>
> Thanks all,
>
> Jon Pipitone
> Research Imaging Centre
> Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
> Toronto, Ontario
>
>
> [1] I've found one other person asking about this way back:
> http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/minc-users/2005-August/000805.html
>
> [2] But I'm wary of the quality of the output:
> http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/minc-users/2007-September/001705.html
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Best regards,

  Vladimir S. Fonov ~ vladimir <dot> fonov <at> gmail <dot> com