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.. _ITK:

ITK Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) format
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Extensions: ``.gipl``, ``.ipl``, ``.mha``, ``.mhd``, ``.nhdr``, ``.nii``, ``.nrrd``, ``.vtk``, ``.bmp``, ``.jpeg``, ``.jpg``, ``.png``, ``.tiff``, ``.tif``, ``.dicom``, ``.gdcm``

The ItkFormat uses the simpleITK library to support a range of
ITK-related formats. It also supports a few common formats that are
also supported by the freeimage plugin (e.g. PNG and JPEG).

This format requires the ``simpleITK`` package.

Parameters for reading
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None.

Parameters for saving
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None.



