[MINC-users] Announce: bids2mnc -- MINC as a derivative of BIDS datasets

[Gabriel A. Devenyi]

Hi all,

In my small contribution to keep the MINC ecosystem alive, while playing
nice with other major projects in neuroimaging, I'm happy to announce
bids2mnc.

https://github.com/CoBrALab/bids2mnc

The bids2mnc package takes an existing BIDS structured dataset and makes a
MINCified variant of it as a "BIDS derivative". MINC files have all of the
BIDS-standard metadata inserted in their header under a bids top-level tag.

It relies upon, nii2mnc, jq, and https://github.com/CoBrALab/libBIDS.sh to
have minimal (additional) dependencies for someone already using MINC.

Potential use cases here are:
- bypassing the current DICOM to MINC challenges with "enhanced DICOMS"
relying on the implementation in dcm2niix used for NIFTI conversion
- Generating MINC files from publicly available BIDS datasets

We hope users find it helpful in keeping MINC alive in their existing
workflows.

Contributions/questions/bugs always welcome at the Github. Thanks!


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Gabriel A. Devenyi Ph.D.
gdevenyi at gmail.com