[MINC-users] Issue with itk_convert_xfm

[Vladimir S. FONOV]

It depends on the version of itk_convert that you are using.

On 16-01-18 03:07 PM, Alex Zijdenbos wrote:
> However, itk_convert seems to suffer from a number of issues itself.
>
> - it does not appear to pay attention to the MINC_COMPRESS env var, so MINC
> output is not internally compressed (ugh!)
> - it does not insert a history attribute, so minchistory doesn't like the
> generated volumes
> - it does not preserve the data type. From a few quick experiments, it
> seems that any MINC volume that is not "unsigned byte 0 to 1" is converted
> to a float NifTI volume. Not sure about the reverse direction. Is Kitware
> friendly with Seagate? ;-)
>
> The latter point applies to nii2mnc/mnc2nii as well by the way; neither
> converter seems to preserve the file data type, or only does it in certain
> situations. It's not clear to me what the logic behind that is. Avoiding
> issues due to slice-based scaling perhaps?
>
> I have now gotten to write an nii2mnc/mnc2nii wrapper that uses itk_convert
> with some mincreshape to fix the above issues; hoping that nii2mnc/mnc2nii
> can be improved.
>
> -- A
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  Vladimir S. FONOV ~ vladimir.fonov <at> gmail.com