lvote(1)

💖 lvote(1) — bestie, it's the local voting era 💖

okay so before we even start: yes, this is lvote, section 1 of the manual, and it lives in The Computational Morphometry Toolkit (that's CMTK, iykyk 👑). Grab a strawberry 🍓, sit down, we're doing segmentation fusion.

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✨ NAME ✨

lvote — Local voting. that's it. that's the whole name. iconic, brief, no notes 💅

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

lvote [options] targetImage atlasIntensity1 atlasLabels1
[atlasIntensity2 atlasLabels2 [...]]

fr fr, you hand it a target image, then pairs of atlas intensity + atlas label images, and you can keep stacking pairs as long as you want 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This tool takes a bunch of segmentations that came from co-registered and reformatted atlases and combines them together using locally-weighted voting. that's the whole vibe. multiple atlas opinions in, one combined segmentation out 💜

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

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

like, these belong to every CMTK tool, not just us. we're all matching 🎀

• --help — write the list of basic command line options to standard output. cute lil starter pack.
• --help-all — write the complete list of basic AND advanced command line options to standard output. the extended lore, the director's cut.
• --wiki — write the list of command line options to standard output in MediaWiki markup.
• --man — write the man page source in 'nroff' markup to standard output. yes, it's giving recursion, we know 😭
• --version — write the toolkit version to standard output.
• --echo — write the current command line to standard output. like it's reading your mind back at you 🙈
• --verbose-level <integer> — set the verbosity level. you pick the number, bestie.
• --verbose, -v — increment the verbosity level by 1. ⚠️ lowkey deprecated, but it's still supported for backward compatibility, so we're not abandoning it bestie, no cap.
• --threads <integer> — set the maximum number of parallel threads (for POSIX threads and OpenMP). she multitasks 🧚

🍓 Input Options

• --set-padding-value <double> — set the padding value for the input intensity images. Pixels with this value get ignored. so if you don't set it, nothing's ignored: [Default: disabled]

🌸 Label Combination Options

• --patch-radius <none> — radius of the image patch, in pixels, used for the local similarity computation. [Default: 5] — that's the default radius, not a <none>, the <none> is just how the usage line prints the arg type, don't come for me 💀
• --use-global-weights — use global weights per atlas to normalize those patch-based local similarity scores. (yes, the original description says "patch-pased", we're all just surviving out here 😭)
• --no-global-outliers — detect and exclude global outliers by removing the poorly correlated atlases before the local voting procedure even starts. bye felicia 👋

🎀 Output Options

• --output <string>, -o <string> — file system path for the output image. [Default: lvote.nii ]

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

Torsten Rohlfing, with contributions from Michael P. Hasak, Greg Jefferis, Calvin R. Maurer, Daniel B. Russakoff, and Yaroslav Halchenko. the whole group chat showed up 🫶

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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/ — we listen, we fix, we grow 🌱

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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. funding era queen behavior 👑

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that's the whole page, bestie!! 🦋 this is CMTK 3.3.1p2, dated Jun 24 2026, and it's still lvote(1) at the end of the day. go forth and vote locally, periodt 💅✨