This package contains the libraries libminc2 and libvolume_io2.

the minc file format is a highly flexible medical image file format. minc version 1 is built on top of the netcdf generalized data format. minc version 2 is built on top of the hdf data format. this library handles both formats. in each case the format is simple, self-describing, extensible, portable and n-dimensional, with programming interfaces for both low-level data access and high-level volume manipulation. on top of the libraries is a suite of generic image-file manipulation tools. the format, libraries and tools are designed for use in a medical-imaging research environment : they are simple and powerful and make no attempt to provide a pretty interface to users.