---
name: "cmtk-lsba"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "cmtk"
version: "3.3.1p2+dfsg-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cmtk-lsba"
---

# cmtk-lsba(1)

Local voting.

## NAME

lsba - Local voting.

## SYNOPSIS

lsba \[options\] targetImage atlasIntensity1 atlasLabels1 \[atlasIntensity2 atlasLabels2 \[...\]\]

## DESCRIPTION

This tool combines multiple binary segmentations from co-registered and reformatted atlases using locally-weighted Shape-Based Averaging.

## OPTIONS

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

- **--help**

  Write list of basic command line options to standard output.

- **--help-all**

  Write complete list of basic and advanced command line options to standard output.

- **--wiki**

  Write list of command line options to standard output in MediaWiki markup.

- **--man**

  Write man page source in 'nroff' markup to standard output.

- **--version**

  Write toolkit version to standard output.

- **--echo**

  Write the current command line to standard output.

- **--verbose-level** *\<integer\>*

  Set verbosity level.

- **--verbose**, **-v**

  Increment verbosity level by 1 (deprecated; supported for backward compatibility).

- **--threads** *\<integer\>*

  Set maximum number of parallel threads (for POSIX threads and OpenMP).

### Input Options

- **--set-padding-value** *\<double\>*

  Set padding value for input intensity images. Pixels with this value will be ignored. **\[Default: disabled\]**

### Label Combination Options

- **--patch-radius** *\<none\>*

  Radius of image patch (in pixels) used for local similarity computation. **\[Default: 5\]**

- **--search-radius** *\<none\>*

  Search radius for local image patch matching. The algorithm finds the best-matching patch within this radius by exhaustive search. **\[Default: 0\]**

- **--no-local-outliers**

  Detect and exclude local outliers in the Shape Based Averaging procedure.

- **--no-global-outliers**

  Detect and exclude global outliers by removing poorly correlated atlases prior to local SBA procedure.

### Output Options

- **--output** *\<string\>*, **-o** *\<string\>*

  File system path for the output image. **\[Default: lsbo.nii \]**

## AUTHORS

Torsten Rohlfing, with contributions from Michael P. Hasak, Greg Jefferis, Calvin R. Maurer, Daniel B. Russakoff, and Yaroslav Halchenko

## LICENSE

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html

## BUGS

Report bugs at http://nitrc.org/projects/cmtk/

## 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.