[MINC-users] the future of MINC and MINC support - need 2 min.

[Sean McBride]

Louis,

YES - I’m using MINC

Here at Rogue Research we support the MINC file format in our Brainsight application, mostly for MRI/CT images, anatomical and functional.

Our app supports MINC1 files via the VTK library's vtkMINCImageReader class (which in turn uses NetCDF directly). We support MINC2 files via the ITK library's itk::MINCImageIO class (which in turn uses libMINC). We have contributed various patches to all this code over the years.

Our app also supports other medical image file formats like DICOM, NIfTI, etc. We try to support any file a customer throws at us.

Our app doesn't have any telemetry, so we don't really know how many of our users use which file formats.

In addition, for some customers, we help them install the minc toolkit on their systems if they are looking to co-register MRI and CT of the same subject. For this we point them to the latest from here:

https://packages.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/minc-toolkit/MacOSX/?C=M;O=D

Which I'm just now realizing (I think) does not actually have the latest, which is only in github?

We'd like to continue using MINC. We'd be willing to contribute a little bit of money to a pot, if such a thing is set up.

Cheers,

Sean
Rogue Research Inc.