Re: [Teem-users] NRRD in function to run ITK filters from Matlab, and in Gerardus Matlab toolboxes

[Gordon L. K. <gl...@uc...>]

On Jul 8, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Ramón Casero Cañas wrote:

> On 08/07/11 17:34, Gordon L. Kindlmann wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for letting us know about this interesting work.
>>
>> Just to be certain, though, it sounds like your "functions to read  
>> the
>> NRRD struct" are specifically for getting information out of the .mat
>> matlab file produced by Seg3D, and that your functions do not parse  
>> or
>> read the NRRD format described here
>>
>> http://teem.sf.net/nrrd/format.html
>>
>> or manipulate the Nrrd C struct defined here (starting line 119):
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/3owtyny
>>
>> Is that correct?
>
>
> Hi Gordon,
>
> Thanks for your reply. Yes, you are right, it's a Matlab struct as  
> opposed to a C/C++ struct.
>
> It's specific to the Matlab struct produced by Seg3D when it saves  
> to .mat. I have tried to be careful to write in the help headers of  
> Gerardus scinrrd_*.m functions that we are referring to the SCI  
> Seg3D NRRD. For example,
>
> http://code.google.com/p/gerardus/source/browse/trunk/matlab/PointsToolbox/scinrrd_pca.m
>
> In fact, the functions are called scinrrd_*.m, instead of nrrd_*.m.
>
> But if you guys think that there's a better way to do this, I'm  
> quite happy to listen.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ramon.

You should use whatever names work for you.  I just pointing out that  
it sounds like these .mat files don't actually have much to do with  
either the Nrrd C struct or the NRRD file format.  'scimat" or  
"seg3dmat" might be a better prefix that "scinrrd".

Any SCI'ers on this list are free to comment!

Gordon