[MINC-users] NMI for minc volumes

[jon pipitone]

Ah, excellent idea.

Vlad, do you mind sharing your code to do this?

Jon.

Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:32:18 -0400
> From: "Vladimir S. Fonov" <vladimir.fonov at gmail.com>
> To: minc-users at bic.mni.mcgill.ca
> Subject: Re: [MINC-users] NMI for minc volumes
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> 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
>
>