Pyminc is a Python interface to the MINC 2 library, allowing use of numpy arrays to access MINC data, and other such similar goodies, developed by Jason Lerch.

Documentation can be found in the tutorial section of the MINC Wikibooks (Programming with MINC2 in Python):

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MINC/Tutorials

and some of the basics are described here:

https://github.com/Mouse-Imaging-Centre/pyminc/wiki

Requirements

For minimum Python version as well as Python dependencies (which will be installed automagically from PyPI during installation), see setup.py. Also, Pyminc needs libminc compiled as a shared object and accessible either through the standard search paths or at MINC_TOOLKIT/lib/libminc2.so (or .dylib). For the tests, you also need the minc-tools suite of command-line utilities.

Installation:

Pyminc is installable from PyPI:

pip3 install pyminc

Alternately, to install from source:

1) Clone the repository or download and untar the tarball if applicable and cd into the source directory; 2) Run:

python3 setup.py install

with an optional --prefix if you want to install it in a non-default location; 3) Test the installation of the pyminc library via:

python3 setup.py test

4) At your option, also run the pyminc_test2.py script in the scripts folder. This program has 3 arguments: a minc file, a method for smoothing the volume (numpy, blitz or weave) and an output file name.