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Table 2.

Supported image formats in registration software tools. AIR: Automate Image Registration, ANTS: Advanced Normalization Tools, ART: Automatic Registration Toolbox, DRAMMS: Deformable Registration via Attribute Matching and Mutual-Saliency Weighting, FAIR: Flexible Algorithms for Image Registration, FNIRT: FMRIB’s Non-linear Image Registration Tool, GUI: graphical user interface, HAMMER: hierarchical attribute matching mechanism for elastic registration, MIRTK: The Medical Image Registration Toolkit, SLDIR: symmetric log-domain diffeomorphic image registration, SPM: Statistical Parametric Mapping

	Analyze	Bio-Rad	BMP	Brains2	DICOM	ECAT7	FITS	GIF	GIPL	JPG	LSM	MetaImage	MGH-NMR	MINC	NIfTI	NRRD	OBJ	PBM	PGM	PNG	Stimulate	TIFF	VTK
AIR	X
ANTS	X				X				X	X		X			X	X					X	X	X
ART 3dwarper															X
bUnwarpJ			X		X^a		X			X									X	X		X
DRAMMS	X											X			X
Drop	X		X		X							X							X	X
Elastix	X				X^b				X	X		X			X	X					X	X	X
FAIR			X				X	X		X								X	X			X
FNIRT	X														X
Gilles	X																X						X
HAMMER	X
MIRTK	X								X						X				X				X
Kroon			X				X	X		X								X	X			X
NiftyReg	X														X
Plastimatch	X				X							X			X	X
SLDIR	X		X		X				X	X		X				X				X		X	X
SPM	X				X	X								X	X
3D slicer	X	X	X	X	X				X	X	X	X	X		X	X				X	X	X	X

^aSupports only uncompressed DICOM files

^bDoes not directly support DICOM directories