Command-line reconstruction interface

Apart from GUI, the 3D Brain Atlas Reconstructor comes with command line interface (or shorter: CLI) allowing the user to perform batch reconstructions without configured graphics environment. After invoking the batch interface, following information will appear:

  $./batchinterface.sh
  
  Usage: ./batchinterface.sh [options] <CAF index> [<structure 1> [<structure 2> ...]]
  3d Brain Atlas Reconstructor ver. 0.1 Batch reconstruction interface
  
  Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -g GENERATESUBSTRUCTURES, --generateSubstructures=GENERATESUBSTRUCTURES
                        maximum level of substructures (in the structure tree)
                        to be generated; default: 0
  -d VOXELDIMENSIONS, --voxelDimensions=VOXELDIMENSIONS
                        voxel size (in units defined in given dataset) in slide plane
                        and in plane perpendicular to the slides, consecutively.
  -e EXPORTDIR, --exportDir=EXPORTDIR
                        the path to a directory for reconstructions
  -p PIPELINE, --usePipeline=PIPELINE
                        the path to a custom pipeline definition
  -v CAMERA, --useViewport=CAMERA
                        the direction vector from the center of the scene to
                        the camera position
  --exportToWindow, --show
                        the reconstruction is displayed to the user
  --composite           perform a reconstruction of the structure as a scene
                        composed of the reconstructions of the basic
                        substructures in the hierarchy tree (up to the maximum
                        given tree depth, see -g switch)
  --includeBrainOutline
                        Includes additional translucent brain outline to the
                        reconstructions. Applies only when exporting to VRML,
                        X3D, screenshot or thumbnail.

  Output Format Options:
    --exportToX3d       exports as X3D scene
    --exportToVRML      exports as VRML scene
    --exportToVTKPolydata
                        exports as vtkPolyData
    --exportToVolume    exports as vtkStructuredPoints
    --exportToNifti     exports as NIfTI file
    --exportToNumpy     exports as NumPy array
    --exportScreenshot  saves screenshot as an PNG image
    --exportThumbnail   saves scaled screenshot as an PNG image

The <CAF index> is a location of the index file of the given CAF dataset while the [<structure 1> [<structure 2> ...]] is space-separated list of all structures to reconstruction contained in the CAF dataset.

The simplest usage of the CLI is to generate reconstruction of a single structure from provided CAF dataset using default settings. Assume that our CAF dataset is located in the ~/atlases/mouse/caf/ directory and we would like to reconstruct the Thalamus and save a nifti volume with the reconstruction:

$./batchinterface.sh ~/atlases/mouse/caf/index.xml Thalamus --exportToNiftii

By default, the reconstructions generated using a predefined pipeline and stored in directory parallel to the CAF dataset directory (in this example it would be ~/atlases/mouse/reconstructions/). However, this behavior can be customized using various switches.