Provided by: mia-tools_2.0.13-1_amd64 
NAME
mia-2dcost - Evaluate the similarity between two 2D images.
SYNOPSIS
mia-2dcost [options] <PLUGINS:2dimage/fullcost>
DESCRIPTION
mia-2dcost This program is used to evaluate the cost between two images by using a given
cost function.
OPTIONS
Help & Info
-V --verbose=warning
verbosity of output, print messages of given level and higher priorities.
Supported priorities starting at lowest level are:
info ‐ Low level messages
warning ‐ Warnings
error ‐ Report errors
fail ‐ Report test failures
message ‐ Normal messages
fatal ‐ Report only fatal errors
--copyright
print copyright information
-h --help
print this help
-? --usage
print a short help
--version
print the version number and exit
Processing
--threads=-1
Maxiumum number of threads to use for processing,This number should be lower
or equal to the number of logical processor cores in the machine. (-1:
automatic estimation).
PLUGINS: 1d/splinekernel
bspline B-spline kernel creation , supported parameters are:
d = 3 (int)
Spline degree. in [0, 5]
omoms OMoms-spline kernel creation, supported parameters are:
d = 3 (int)
Spline degree. in [3, 3]
PLUGINS: 2dimage/cost
lsd Least-Squares Distance measure
(no parameters)
mi Spline parzen based mutual information., supported parameters are:
cut = 0 (float)
Percentage of pixels to cut at high and low intensities to remove
outliers. in [0, 40]
mbins = 64 (uint)
Number of histogram bins used for the moving image. in [1, 256]
mkernel = [bspline:d=3] (factory)
Spline kernel for moving image parzen hinstogram. For supported plug-ins
see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel
rbins = 64 (uint)
Number of histogram bins used for the reference image. in [1, 256]
rkernel = [bspline:d=0] (factory)
Spline kernel for reference image parzen hinstogram. For supported plug-
ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel
ngf This function evaluates the image similarity based on normalized gradient
fields. Various evaluation kernels are availabe., supported parameters are:
eval = ds (string)
plugin subtype (sq, ds,dot,cross).
ssd 2D imaga cost: sum of squared differences, supported parameters are:
norm = 0 (bool)
Set whether the metric should be normalized by the number of image pixels.
PLUGINS: 2dimage/fullcost
divcurl divcurl penalty cost function, supported parameters are:
curl = 1 (float)
penalty weight on curl. in [0, 3.40282e+38]
div = 1 (float)
penalty weight on divergence. in [0, 3.40282e+38]
weight = 1 (float)
weight of cost function. in [-1e+10, 1e+10]
image Generalized image similarity cost function that also handles multi-resolution
processing. The actual similarity measure is given es extra parameter.,
supported parameters are:
cost = ssd (factory)
Cost function kernel. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:2dimage/cost
debug = 0 (bool)
Save intermediate resuts for debugging.
ref = ref.@ (io)
Reference image. For supported file types see PLUGINS:2dimage/io
src = src.@ (io)
Study image. For supported file types see PLUGINS:2dimage/io
weight = 1 (float)
weight of cost function. in [-1e+10, 1e+10]
PLUGINS: 2dimage/io
bmp BMP 2D-image input/output support
Recognized file extensions: .BMP, .bmp
Supported element types:
binary data, unsigned 8 bit, unsigned 16 bit
datapool Virtual IO to and from the internal data pool
Recognized file extensions: .@
dicom 2D image io for DICOM
Recognized file extensions: .DCM, .dcm
Supported element types:
unsigned 16 bit
exr a 2dimage io plugin for OpenEXR images
Recognized file extensions: .EXR, .exr
Supported element types:
unsigned 32 bit, floating point 32 bit
jpg a 2dimage io plugin for jpeg gray scale images
Recognized file extensions: .JPEG, .JPG, .jpeg, .jpg
Supported element types:
unsigned 8 bit
png a 2dimage io plugin for png images
Recognized file extensions: .PNG, .png
Supported element types:
binary data, unsigned 8 bit, unsigned 16 bit
raw RAW 2D-image output support
Recognized file extensions: .RAW, .raw
Supported element types:
binary data, signed 8 bit, unsigned 8 bit, signed 16 bit, unsigned 16 bit,
signed 32 bit, unsigned 32 bit, floating point 32 bit, floating point 64
bit
tif TIFF 2D-image input/output support
Recognized file extensions: .TIF, .TIFF, .tif, .tiff
Supported element types:
binary data, unsigned 8 bit, unsigned 16 bit, unsigned 32 bit
vista a 2dimage io plugin for vista images
Recognized file extensions: .V, .VISTA, .v, .vista
Supported element types:
binary data, signed 8 bit, unsigned 8 bit, signed 16 bit, unsigned 16 bit,
signed 32 bit, unsigned 32 bit, floating point 32 bit, floating point 64
bit
EXAMPLE
Evaluate the SSD cost function between image1.png and image2.png
mia-2dcost image:src=image1.png,ref=image2.png,cost=ssd
AUTHOR(s)
Gert Wollny
COPYRIGHT
This software is Copyright (c) 1999‐2013 Leipzig, Germany and Madrid, Spain. It comes
with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY and you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU
GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3 (or later). For more information run the program with the
option '--copyright'.