minccmp (1)

minccmp [<options>] <in1.mnc> <in2.mnc> [<inn.mnc> ...]

minccmp will calculate simple statistical measures between two minc files or more by comparing all subsequent files to the first. The results for each subseqent file are then returned in order. By default all statistics are calculated. If specifitc statistics are requested via a command-line option, then only the requested statistics are printed.

A very useful feature of this program is the ability to restrict the set of voxels included in the statistic calculation, either by restricting the range of included values (-floor, -ceil or -range), or by using a mask file (-mask) with a restricted range.

The comparison statistics available in minccmp are given below. Note that two of these (-xcorr and -zscore) are a very close approximation to what is used in minctracc.

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

-clobber

Overwrite an existing file.

-noclobber

Don't overwrite an existing file (default).

-debug

Dump a lot of extra information (for when things go haywire).

-verbose

Print out extra information (more than the default).

-quiet

Print out only the requested numbers

-max_buffer_size_in_kb size

Specify the maximum size of the internal buffers (in kbytes). Default is 4 MB.

-check_dimensions

Check that all input files have matching sampling in world dimensions (default).

-nocheck_dimensions

Ignore any differences in world dimensions sampling for input files .

-floor min

A lower bound for ranges of data to include in statistic calculations.

-ceil max

An upper bound for ranges of data to include in statistic calculations.

-range min,max

A lower and upper bound for the ranges of data to include in statistics.

-mask filename.mnc

Name of file to be used for masking data included in statistic calculations.

-all

Compute all statistical measures. This is the default.

-ssq

Print the Sum Squared Difference between two input files

   SSQ = Sum( (A-B)^2 )

-rmse

Print the Root Mean Squared Error between two input files

   RMSE = sqrt( 1/n * Sum((A-B)^2))

-xcorr

Print the Cross Correlation between two input files

   XCORR = Sum((A*B)^2) / (sqrt(Sum(A^2)) * sqrt(Sum(B^2))

-zscore

Print the z-score difference between two input files

   ZSCORE = Sum( |((A - mean(A)) / stdev(A)) -
                  ((B - mean(B)) / stdev(B))| ) / n

-help

Print summary of command-line options and exit.

-version

Print the program's version number and exit.

Andrew Janke

Copyright © 2010 by Andrew Janke