mrcalc

Synopsis

Apply generic voxel-wise mathematical operations to images

Usage

mrcalc [ options ]  operand [ operand ... ]
  • operand: an input image, intensity value, or the special keywords ‘rand’ (random number between 0 and 1) or ‘randn’ (random number from unit std.dev. normal distribution).

Description

This command will only compute per-voxel operations. Use ‘mrmath’ to compute summary statistics across images or along image axes.

This command uses a stack-based syntax, with operators (specified using options) operating on the top-most entries (i.e. images or values) in the stack. Operands (values or images) are pushed onto the stack in the order they appear (as arguments) on the command-line, and operators (specified as options) operate on and consume the top-most entries in the stack, and push their output as a new entry on the stack. For example:

$ mrcalc a.mif 2 -mult r.mif

performs the operation r = 2*a for every voxel a,r in images a.mif and r.mif respectively. Similarly:

$ mrcalc a.mif -neg b.mif -div -exp 9.3 -mult r.mif

performs the operation r = 9.3*exp(-a/b), and:

$ mrcalc a.mif b.mif -add c.mif d.mif -mult 4.2 -add -div r.mif

performs r = (a+b)/(c*d+4.2).

As an additional feature, this command will allow images with different dimensions to be processed, provided they satisfy the following conditions: for each axis, the dimensions match if they are the same size, or one of them has size one. In the latter case, the entire image will be replicated along that axis. This allows for example a 4D image of size [ X Y Z N ] to be added to a 3D image of size [ X Y Z ], as if it consisted of N copies of the 3D image along the 4th axis (the missing dimension is assumed to have size 1). Another example would a single-voxel 4D image of size [ 1 1 1 N ], multiplied by a 3D image of size [ X Y Z ], which would allow the creation of a 4D image where each volume consists of the 3D image scaled by the corresponding value for that volume in the single-voxel image.

Options

Unary operators

  • -abs absolute value
  • -neg negative value
  • -sqrt square root
  • -exp exponential function
  • -log natural logarithm
  • -log10 common logarithm
  • -cos cosine
  • -sin sine
  • -tan tangent
  • -cosh hyperbolic cosine
  • -sinh hyperbolic sine
  • -tanh hyperbolic tangent
  • -acos inverse cosine
  • -asin inverse sine
  • -atan inverse tangent
  • -acosh inverse hyperbolic cosine
  • -asinh inverse hyperbolic sine
  • -atanh inverse hyperbolic tangent
  • -round round to nearest integer
  • -ceil round up to nearest integer
  • -floor round down to nearest integer
  • -isnan true (1) is operand is not-a-number (NaN)
  • -isinf true (1) is operand is infinite (Inf)
  • -finite true (1) is operand is finite (i.e. not NaN or Inf)
  • -real real part of complex number
  • -imag imaginary part of complex number
  • -phase phase of complex number
  • -conj complex conjugate

Binary operators

  • -add add values
  • -subtract subtract nth operand from (n-1)th
  • -multiply multiply values
  • -divide divide (n-1)th operand by nth
  • -pow raise (n-1)th operand to nth power
  • -min smallest of last two operands
  • -max greatest of last two operands
  • -lt less-than operator (true=1, false=0)
  • -gt greater-than operator (true=1, false=0)
  • -le less-than-or-equal-to operator (true=1, false=0)
  • -ge greater-than-or-equal-to operator (true=1, false=0)
  • -eq equal-to operator (true=1, false=0)
  • -neq not-equal-to operator (true=1, false=0)
  • -complex create complex number using the last two operands as real,imaginary components

Ternary operators

  • -if if first operand is true (non-zero), return second operand, otherwise return third operand

Data type options

  • -datatype spec specify output image data type. Valid choices are: float32, float32le, float32be, float64, float64le, float64be, int64, uint64, int64le, uint64le, int64be, uint64be, int32, uint32, int32le, uint32le, int32be, uint32be, int16, uint16, int16le, uint16le, int16be, uint16be, cfloat32, cfloat32le, cfloat32be, cfloat64, cfloat64le, cfloat64be, int8, uint8, bit.

Standard options

  • -info display information messages.
  • -quiet do not display information messages or progress status.
  • -debug display debugging messages.
  • -force force overwrite of output files. Caution: Using the same file as input and output might cause unexpected behaviour.
  • -nthreads number use this number of threads in multi-threaded applications (set to 0 to disable multi-threading)
  • -failonwarn terminate program if a warning is produced
  • -help display this information page and exit.
  • -version display version information and exit.

Author: J-Donald Tournier (jdtournier@gmail.com)

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2008-2017 the MRtrix3 contributors

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