Table 1.

Brief summary of the characteristics of MINC and some other neuroinformatics data formats.

Format	Year	Files per 3D image	Richness of metadata	Human readability	Provenance support
ACR-NEMA	1985	Typically many	High	Low	Low
Analyze 7.5	1986	Two	Low	Low	Low
DICOM	1992	Typically many	High	Low	Low
MINC	1992	One	High	High	High
NIfTI-1	2001	One	Moderate	Low	Moderate