[Insight-users] Help on HAMMER

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Ram,

I'm afraid that I can't be of much help here.

HAMMER is a closed source application unrelated to the Insight Toolkit.

You should also be aware that the method implemented in HAMMER is
covered by a patent, and that therefore you need a license from the
patent holder in order to use this software, even for research
purposes. See emails from the ITK Archive below (**).


You may want to post your question to the group that developed
the software.


It seems that a reasonable place to post your questions could be
the NITRC forum:

            http://www.nitrc.org/projects/hammer

You may want to take a look at the SBIA License, under which the
software is distributed. Note that this *is not* an Open Source
license.

     http://www.nitrc.org/help/trove_cat.php?trove_cat_id=501


The following entries in the ITK mailing list archives may be
interesting for you:

http://www.itk.org/pipermail/insight-users/2008-September/027321.html
http://www.itk.org/pipermail/insight-users/2008-September/027330.html
http://www.itk.org/pipermail/insight-users/2008-September/027333.html **
http://www.itk.org/pipermail/insight-users/2008-September/027348.html
http://www.itk.org/pipermail/insight-users/2008-September/027349.html


You may also find interesting this book:


   "Patent Failure"
   "How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers put Innovators at Risk"

    by James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer
    Princeton University Press
    http://www.researchoninnovation.org/dopatentswork/


--

On the other hand, if you are interested in using any of the
deformable registration methods available as part of the
Open Source implementation of ITK, we will be happy to
assist you.



   Regards,


     Luis



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ramkrish_cse at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi LUIS, hope you are doing great..  I'm a post graduate student currently working on a project  called "IMAGE REGISTRATION METHODOLOGIES" using HAMMER software(GUI ON WINDOWS).. I've downloaded the HAMMER(GUI ON WINDOWS)  software and tried to register the brain images that comes with software( sample data set i,e 3 subjects) and after running the software for the 3 subjects i've got RAVENS maps for subjects and also the deformation field in the working folder which i couldn't view because of its large size.. please help me out on the following questions..
> 
>                          1) How to analyze the RAVENS maps for subjects i,e GM WM etc..
>                          2) How to view the deformation field and analyze it for identifying the disease..
> 
> In addition, please give me  further information about HAMMER(GUI ON WINDOWS) and it's practical demonstration (PDF OR PPT)..
>                                                        THANKS IN ADVANCE...
>  
> Warm Regards
> Ram Krishna
>