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NAME

       mincaverage - average minc files

SYNOPSIS

       mincaverage [<options>] <in1>.mnc [<in2>.mnc...] <out>.mnc

DESCRIPTION

       Mincaverage averages minc files together. A range of optional behaviour
       is permitted as well:  pre-normalizing  volumes,  creating  a  standard
       deviation  volume,  averaging  over  a specified dimension of the input
       files.

OPTIONS

       Note that options can be specified in abbreviated form (as long as they
       are unique) and can be given anywhere on the command line.

General options

       -2     Create a MINC 2.0 format output file.

       -clobber
              Overwrite an existing file.

       -noclobber
              Don’t overwrite an existing file (default).

       -verbose
              Print  out  progress  information  for each chunk of data copied
              (default).

       -quiet Do not print out progress information.

       -debug Print extra information (e.g. normalization factors).

       -filelist filename
              Specify a file containing a list of input file names. If "-"  is
              given,  then  file  names are read from stdin. If this option is
              given, then there should be no input file names specified on the
              command line. Empty lines in the input file are ignored.

       -max_buffer_size_in_kb buffer-size
              Specify  the  maximum  size of the internal buffers (in kbytes).
              Default is 4096 kbytes.

Output type options

       These options control the storage  precision  and  size  of  individual
       voxel values in the output file.

       -filetype
              Don’t do any type conversion (default).

       -byte  Write out 8-bit integer values.

       -short Write out 16-bit integer values.

       -int   Write out 32-bit integer values.

       -long  Superseded by -int.

       -float Write out single-precision floating point values.

       -double
              Write out double-precision floating point values.

       -signed  Write  out  values  as  signed integers (default for short and
       long). Ignored for floating point types.

       -unsigned
              Write out  values  as  unsigned  integers  (default  for  byte).
              Ignored for floating point types.

       -range min max
              specifies  the  valid  range  of  output  voxel  values in their
              integer representation. Default is the full range for  the  type
              and  sign. This option is ignored for floating point values. For
              it to have any effect, you must specify a type.

Averaging options

       -normalize
              Normalize volumes to their global average before averaging  them
              (based  on  the mean of voxels with value greater than 2 percent
              of full range above the minimum).

       -nonormalize
              Do not normalize volumes (default).

       -sdfile sdfile.mnc
              Specify the name of an output standard  deviation  file,  to  be
              calculated in addition the mean that is normally calculated.

       -copy_header
              Copy  all  of  the  additional header information from the first
              input file (default for one input file).

       -nocopy_header
              Do not copy additional  header  information  (default  for  many
              input files).

       -avgdim dimname
              Specify  the  name  of  a  dimension  over  which  we  should be
              averaging (or calculating standard deviation). If  normalization
              is  done,  it  still  only  applies  to separate files only - no
              normalization is done within a file.

       -binarize
              Binarize the input volumes before calculating the  average.  The
              binarization  is  done  by  specifying  a  range  of values that
              contribute 1 to the average. Normalization of the input  is  not
              permitted when performing binarization.

       -binrange min max
              Specify the range of values for binarization.

       -binvalue value
              Specify  a  single  legal  value (integer) for binarization. The
              range is set to be +/- 0.5  around  this  value  to  achieve  an
              effective rounding of input values.

       -weights <w1,w2,...>
              Specify  a  series  of  weights  for  averaging.  The  number of
              weighting values must match the number of input  files  and  the
              values  must  be  provided  as  a single argument with commas or
              spaces as separators. The sum of the weights must  be  non-zero.
              If  weights  are used with an averaging dimension, then only one
              input file can be specified.

       -width_weighted
              This option can only be used when averaging across  a  dimension
              (-avgdim  option).  It  specifies  that weighting should be done
              using the width  variable  that  corresponds  to  the  averaging
              dimension.  For example, using -width_weighted with -avgdim time
              will use the time-width variable to weight the values.

Generic options for all commands:

       -help  Print summary of command-line options and exit.

       -version
              Print the program’s version number and exit.

AUTHOR

       Peter Neelin

COPYRIGHTS

       Copyright © 1995 by Peter Neelin

                         $Date: 2004-05-20 21:52:07 $