NiBabel

Access a cacophony of neuro-imaging file formats

API Documentation¶

Read and write access to common neuroimaging file formats, including: ANALYZE_ (plain, SPM99, SPM2 and later), GIFTI_, NIfTI1_, NIfTI2_, `CIFTI-2`_, MINC1_, MINC2_, `AFNI BRIK/HEAD`_, ECAT_ and Philips PAR/REC.

File Formats¶

`analyze`	Read / write access to the basic Mayo Analyze format
`spm2analyze`	Read / write access to SPM2 version of analyze image format
`spm99analyze`	Read / write access to SPM99 version of analyze image format
`cifti2`	CIFTI-2 format IO
`gifti`	GIfTI format IO
`freesurfer`	Reading functions for freesurfer files
`minc1`	Read MINC1 format images
`minc2`	Preliminary MINC2 support
`nicom`	DICOM reader
`nifti1`	Read / write access to NIfTI1 image format
`nifti2`	Read / write access to NIfTI2 image format
`ecat`	Read ECAT format images
`parrec`	Read images in PAR/REC format
`streamlines`	Multiformat-capable streamline format read / write interface

Image Utilities¶

`eulerangles`	Module implementing Euler angle rotations and their conversions
`funcs`	Processor functions for images
`imageclasses`	Define supported image classes and names
`imageglobals`	Defaults for images and headers
`loadsave`	Utilities to load and save image objects
`orientations`	Utilities for calculating and applying affine orientations
`quaternions`	Functions to operate on, or return, quaternions
`spatialimages`	A simple spatial image class
`volumeutils`	Utility functions for analyze-like formats

Float / integer conversion¶

`arraywriters`	Array writer objects
`casting`	Utilities for casting numpy values in various ways

System utilities¶

`data`	Utilities to find files from NIPY data packages
`environment`	Settings from the system environment relevant to NIPY

Miscellaneous Helpers¶

`arrayproxy`	Array proxy base class
`affines`	Utility routines for working with points and affine transforms
`batteryrunners`	Battery runner classes and Report classes
`data`	Utilities to find files from NIPY data packages
`dft`	DICOM filesystem tools
`fileholders`	Fileholder class
`filename_parser`	Create filename pairs, triplets etc, with expected extensions
`fileslice`	Utilities for getting array slices out of file-like objects
`onetime`	Descriptor support for NIPY
`openers`	Context manager openers for various fileobject types
`optpkg`	Routines to support optional packages
`rstutils`	ReStructured Text utilities
`tmpdirs`	Contexts for with statement providing temporary directories
`tripwire`	Class to raise error for missing modules or other misfortunes
`wrapstruct`	Class to wrap numpy structured array