unique values in an (int) dataset

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1

Hey,

Given a integer valued data set (e.g., a mask), what’s the most straightforward way to get a list of the unique values in the data set?

Regards,
Colm.

2

Howzabout this elegant combination of AFNI and shell commands:


3dROIstats -quiet -mask DSET_INT DSET_INT  | tr '\t' '\n' | awk '{print int($1)}'

… which, in turn, get the mean value of each ROI region (which produces a line of floating point values of the ROI integers); which gets turned into a vertical column of those floating point values; when then get integerized?

–pt

3

You can also get a list of the unique output values in a table
3dRank -prefix testrank -input myatlas_or_roi_dset.nii.gz
or
3dmerge -1rank -prefix testrankmerge myatlas_or_roi_dset.nii.gz

cat testrank.rankmap.1D
#Rank Map (361 unique values)
#Col. 0: Rank
#Col. 1: Input Dset Value
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
…
360 1180

You can also loop in a script across individual values in the range from min to max and count the number of voxels with 3dBrickStat.

4

Thanks! I figured there’d be more than one one way to do this in the Swiss army knife that is AFNI!