[Pkg-exppsy-pynifti] [Nipy-devel] Image, design, usecases

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

> 1. Does this generic image reading code read any volume-based medical image
> format?

It is designed as a framework so that it may be clear how to read any
volume-based image format.  So far it reads and writes: analyze, SPM
analyze (with the .mat file), nifti (pair and single .nii). It reads
MINC Ok (still some little cleanups to do).

> 2. Does this generic image reading code only read medical image formats?

Yes...

> or 3. Can it also read other image formats:
>
> (data4,meta4) = somepackage.load('help.tif') # common img formats

No...  I suppose it could, via PIL or something, but that would only
make sense if the TIFF was a volume.

The idea is - post sprint - that the image object should insist on at
least 3 dimensions...

So, yes, I think it's medical volume.

See you,

Matthew