[Gimp-user] 16-Bit images to 8 bit images

[Enrique Betancourt <fis ebetancourt gmail com>]

Hello my name is Enrique, I am student from the Masters Degree Program in
Medical Physics of the National Politechnic Institute in Mexico City.

I work with lots of medical images, creating algorithms to perform
authomatic segmetation of organs. Actually i'm working with liver
segmetation on children. I use Gimp to normalize my images but since they
are on 16-bit Gimp authomaticaly convert them in 8-Bit, but as expected i
loose data on that step.

Can you help me to understand how does Gimp perform this conversion? It
will help me a lot :D.

Thank you so much,

sincerly

Enrique B.