destripe(1)

✨ destripe(1) ✨

okay bestie, so this is a page from The Computational Morphology Toolkit (CMTK for the girlies who live in neuroimaging land 🧠✨) and it's giving "my image stack has stripes and I need them GONE." Let's get into it 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

destripe — Destripe volume image data.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

destripe InputImage OutputImage

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So like. This program corrects stripe artifacts in acquired image stacks which can result from between-slice intensity scale differences. Basically your slices are all a lil jealous of each other and have different brightness levels, and the whole thing looks striped like a beach towel 🌈 and this tool literally fixes that. It's giving glow-up. Periodt.

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

🌸 Global Toolkit Options (these are shared by all CMTK tools) 🌸

like, every single CMTK tool gets these. it's a whole group chat feature fr fr.

• --help — Write list of basic command line options to standard output. your starter pack 💅
• --help-all — Write complete list of basic and advanced command line options to standard output. the director's cut, no cap.
• --wiki — Write list of command line options to standard output in MediaWiki markup. for the wiki girlies 🫶
• --man — Write man page source in 'nroff' markup to standard output.
• --version — Write toolkit version to standard output.
• --echo — Write the current command line to standard output. it repeats you back, iconic.
• --verbose-level <integer> — Set verbosity level.
• --verbose, -v — Increment verbosity level by 1 (deprecated; supported for backward compatibility). like it still works but it's kinda old news 🙈
• --threads <integer> — Set maximum number of parallel threads (for POSIX threads and OpenMP). more threads = more main character energy ✨

🎀 Slice Orientation 🎀

this part is where you tell it which way the slices are pointing, iykyk.

• --slice-axis — Define slice direction axis: this is the through-slice direction of the acquisition. Supported values: "guess-from-input", "axial", "sagittal", "coronal", "slice-x", "slice-y", "slice-z", where the default is "guess-from-input", or use one of the following:
  • --guess-from-input — Guess from input image [This is the default]. it just knows 🔮
  • --axial, -a — Sliced axial images
  • --sagittal, -s — Sliced sagittal images
  • --coronal, -c — Sliced coronal images
  • --slice-x, -x — Sliced along x axis
  • --slice-y, -y — Sliced along y axis
  • --slice-z, -z — Sliced along z axis
• --kernel-fwhm <double> — Gaussian kernel full width at half maximum (FWHM) in units of slice indexes. [Default: 1]. yeah it's a whole Gaussian situation, very math, very slay.
• --kernel-radius <integer> — Truncate kernel radius to this many samples. By default, kernel width is determined to limit approximation error. [Default: 0]
• --write-float — Write output image in floating point representation. By default, write using input image pixel data type. so if you don't pass this, bestie, it just matches whatever your input was 🍓

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

Torsten Rohlfing, with contributions from Michael P. Hasak, Greg Jefferis, Calvin R. Maurer, Daniel B. Russakoff, and Yaroslav Halchenko

shoutout to the whole crew honestly 👑👑👑 not them carrying this entire toolkit.

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🌈 LICENSE 🌈

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html

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💀 BUGS 💀

Report bugs at http://nitrc.org/projects/cmtk/

not you finding a bug 😭 pls report it, they wanna know, fr fr.

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⭐ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ⭐

CMTK is developed with support from the NIAAA under Grant AA021697, National Consortium on Alcohol and Neurodevelopment in Adolescence (N-CANDA): Data Integration Component. From April 2009 through September 2011, CMTK development and maintenance was supported by the NIBIB under Grant EB008381.

like they really said "funded, supported, thriving" 💖

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and that's the whole thing bestie 🫶 this is CMTK 3.3.1p2, dated Jun 24 2026, and it's destripe(1) — go forth and un-stripe ur life 🌸✨💅