[MINC-users] the future of MINC and MINC support - need 2 min.
Christophe Grova, M
christophe.grova at mcgill.ca
Tue May 27 07:06:50 EDT 2025
Thanks Louis , Mallar and team for the great support over many years.
Even if some of our pipelines have evolved to use other tools as well, yes my team and I are still using Minc !
Cordially
Christophe
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Christophe Grova, PhD
Professor, Physics Dpt, Concordia University
Concordia School of Health
Adjunct Prof in Biomedical Engineering, and Neurology and Neurosurgery Dpt, McGill University
Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab (Multi FunkIm)
Montreal Neurological Institute - epilepsy group
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From: MINC-users <minc-users-bounces at bic.mni.mcgill.ca> on behalf of Louis Collins, Mr <louis.collins at mcgill.ca>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2025 10:19 AM
To: minc-users at bic.mni.mcgill.ca <minc-users at bic.mni.mcgill.ca>
Subject: [MINC-users] the future of MINC and MINC support - need 2 min.
Hi all,
I’m sending this email to bic-annouce, minc-users and minc-developers. Forgive me if you get multiple similar copies, each one has different questions addressed to the specific mailing list audience.
Along with cutting edge neuro-imaging devices, the MINC software tools are an integral part of the success that have enabled the BIC to achieve world-wide recognition in neuroscience. Unfortunately, a recent DICOM to MINC conversion issue (left-right flipping in MRI) has called into question the future of minc.
The minc file format, API, and all image analysis pipelines have been supported mostly on a volunteer basis for at least the past decade. While I’ve never had grants to support minc directly, I’ve used funds from other projects to support Vlad’s salary as he spent half his time to work on minc tools as we needed them in my lab. We’ve also invested a lot of time (and $$) fixing bugs and assisting other groups with their processing needs. Mallar, Jason, Andrew and others have done the same. At this time, my grants are running out, and I can no longer afford to support minc as we’ve done in the past. for a few months last fall, Julien provided some financial help (20% of an FTE), but that aid ended early this year.
I learned about this new dcm2mnc issue last week that affects all those that use Seimens MRI data in minc format acquired in the past few months.
This issue calls into the question the sufficiency of volunteer MNC support. Some have suggested to drop MINC altogether and to use other tools based on nifti/BIDS. I believe that MINC support requires specific funding.
For everyone in the minc-users list, I am curious to know how many people are using MINC at present.
Please respond with “YES - I’m using MINC” (or "no, not using MINC”).
If YES, please also say if you’d like to continue using minc.
If no, would you use minc if it was supported/documented?
Feel free to reply all in this mailing list, or directly to me by email.
my goal is to get a count of those using minc tools as soon as possible. there is a meeting this week to discuss the future of minc.
thanks.
-Louis
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