Bug#579569: ITP: ants -- advanced normalization tools for brain and image mapping

[Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>]

Thanks Frank!

On Sun, 02 May 2010, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> >   Description     : advanced normalization tools for brain and image mapping
> > The ANTS package is designed to enable researchers with advanced tools for
> > brain and image mapping. 
> This paragraph could be written in a way to clarify that this tool
> analyses brain images (i.e it has nothing to do with organizing
> mind/ideas)
it never used 'mind' in the description ;)  but lets indeed make it more
descriptive/less confusing:

Description: advanced normalization tools for brain and image analysis
 Advanced Normalization Tools (ANTS) is an ITK-based suite of
 normalization, segmentation and template-building tools for quantitative
 morphometric analysis.

better?

> > Many of the ANTS registration tools are
> > diffeomorphic, but deformation (elastic and BSpline) transformations are
> > available. Unique components of ANTS include multivariate similarity metrics,
> > landmark guidance, the ability to use label images to guide the mapping and
> > both greedy and space-time optimal implementations of diffeomorphisms. The
> > symmetric normalization (SyN) strategy is a part of the ANTS toolkit as is
> > directly manipulated free form deformation (DMFFD).

> Thanks,

> Franklin



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