[Nipy-devel] Are libraries to read and write afni, nifit and dicom images needed?

[Cindee Madison]

Hi John..

I know the DICOM wrappings will be useful. Im not sure of the status
of AFNI in our code...but Analyze and Nifti are fairly well supported.
Can we look at the code to see how easily we can intergrate it into
our codebase?

Thanks

Cindee

On 3/13/07, John Ollinger <ollinger@wisc.edu> wrote:
>
> I have been following developments on this list and am wondering if some
> software that I have developed would be useful to the effort.   Here are
> the most useful capabilities:
>
> AFNI: Read in native python, write using python to wrap to3d.
>
> nifti: read and write in native python. Supports quaternion transformation
> only.
>
> dicom: read only in native python.  Assumes uninformative file names and
> sorts based on slice position, slice acquisition time, and image type
> (magnitude, phase, real, imaginary).  Uses Dave Clunies dicom tools which
> are wrapped using swig into a python shareable object libary.
>
> A single function named "readfile" determines the file type, reads it, and
> returns a dictionary containing basic parameters common to all file
> types.  One element is a dictionary containing the entire header (or a
> larger fraction of it in the case of dicom), and a transformation matrix
> that defines the rotation and translation required to get the data into a
> coordinate system where the voxel at (0,0,0) is at (-xmax,-ymax,-zmax) and
> corresponds to the right, anterior, inferior corner of the image.
>
> Would this be useful or a duplication of effort?   I have tried to find
> software to do this on the web but the code I have found is either
> incomplete or unworkable.
>
> John
>
>
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