[MINC-users] The story of "bestlinreg"?

[Alex Zijdenbos]

I always thought the 's' referred to Steve Robbins, who did some parameter
optimization on these registration protocol (bestlinreg_s and nlfit_s)?
That not correct then?

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Vladimir S. FONOV <
vladimir.fonov at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> bestlinreg_s and _s2 are my alternations of the original script.
>
> All three are part of minc_toolkit , see
> https://github.com/BIC-MNI/EZminc/tree/master/scripts
>
>
>
> On 16-02-26 12:22 PM, Claude LEPAGE wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> A few historical notes here...
>>
>> Oliver and I are at the origin of the creation of bestlinreg.pl.
>> The motivation was to split the original mritotal script into a
>> module for linear registration and one for non-linear registration.
>> Being modest, we, of course, called it "best". bestlinreg.pl typically
>> lives within the CIVET pipeline and hasn't be formally added to
>> the mni autoreg package. bestlinreg.pl has thus evolved with the
>> versions of CIVET over the years, although we have not renamed it
>> bestbestlinreg.pl.
>>
>> I don't know where bestlinreg, bestlinreg_s, and bestlinreg_s2 are
>> from. Likely, they are other flavours of bestlinreg.pl.
>>
>> Claude
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi minc-users,
>>>
>>> I was wondering if anyone had any background about the various versions
>>> of
>>> bestlinreg around.
>>> So far I've seen
>>> bestlinreg
>>> bestlinreg.pl
>>> bestlinreg_s
>>> bestlinreg_s2
>>>
>>> I've looked over the help and diffed the various versions together and I
>>> see some differences, but its not clear to me why so many exist or if
>>> they're intended for different purposes.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have the story of their pedigree?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Gabriel A. Devenyi B.Eng. Ph.D.
>>> Research Computing Associate
>>> Computational Brain Anatomy Laboratory
>>> Cerebral Imaging Center
>>> Douglas Mental Health University Institute
>>> McGill University
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>>>
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>
> --
> Best regards,
>
>  Vladimir S. FONOV ~ vladimir.fonov <at> gmail.com
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