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Add mindgrab skull-stripping bundle

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Description

  • What: port the mindgrab model to the MONAI bundle format
  • Why: MONAI-ecosystem interoperability (MONAI Label, MONAI Deploy, monai.bundle tooling), not a replacement for brainchopC's own engine
  • Model background: skull stripping / brain extraction, MeshNet-style dilated 3D CNN, from the MindGrab paper (Fani et al., NeuroImage 2026)
  • Planned validation approach: bit-exact check against the reference brainchopC implementation
  • A note that the bundle is already implemented and a PR will follow

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Research direction

Start with the linked mindgrab/model.json and the reference brainchopC implementation. Compare the existing bundle implementation with MONAI Bundle conventions, then validate it with the planned bit-exact check against brainchopC. Done means the skull-stripping model is available in MONAI Bundle format and matches the reference output.

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Assessment

Domain
machine-learning
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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