MASS ChangeLog

Improved the performance of the ChooseTemplate mechanism (may give different results than the 1.0.0 version)
Made the package adaptive to different batch processing (job scheduling) softwares
Added unit and system tests to the package
Discontinued the ability to generate ventricle masks
Converted the templates from float to byte
Added 3 more templates to Templates/WithoutCerebellum
Made the following changes to the options
“-sge” – “-log”
“-NOSGE” – “-NOQ”
“-tmp” – discontinued
“-VNmask” – discontinued
Added the following options
“-mask” – to specify the output mask name
“-cbq” – to specify the output intensity image
“-mem” – to specify the memory requirement

Added a mass utility functions script
Added a feature to retain intermediate files
Removed all references to SBIA environment variables, making it more generic to systems outside SBIA
Updated the web addresses to point to the new CBICA website
Modified the intermediate filenames to allow the user to run multiple instances of mass on images stored in the same directory
Added an option to request memory for the mass-registrations and mass-skullstripping jobs, instead of a hardcoded value
Created a CBICA software webpage for the package
Made the script adaptive to filenames relative to current working directory
Modified the mechanism to create temporary directory slightly to accept a user specified directory