Read / write access to some common neuroimaging file formats

This package provides read +/- write access to some common medical and neuroimaging file formats, including: ANALYZE (plain, SPM99, SPM2 and later), GIFTI, NIfTI1, NIfTI2, CIFTI-2, MINC1, MINC2, AFNI BRIK/HEAD, MGH and ECAT as well as Philips PAR/REC. We can read and write FreeSurfer geometry, annotation and morphometry files. There is some very limited support for DICOM. NiBabel is the successor of PyNIfTI.

The various image format classes give full or selective access to header (meta) information and access to the image data is made available via NumPy arrays.

Current documentation on nibabel can always be found at the NIPY nibabel website.

Please send any questions or suggestions to the neuroimaging mailing list.

Install nibabel with:

pip install nibabel

You may also be interested in:

• the nibabel code repository on Github;
• documentation for all releases and current development tree;
• download the current release from pypi;
• download current development version as a zip file;
• downloads of all available releases.

Nibabel is licensed under the terms of the MIT license. Some code included with nibabel is licensed under the BSD license. Please see the COPYING file in the nibabel distribution.

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