Auto3Dseg support for .mha files

[bilalcodehub]

Dear MONAI Team,

I am interested in using Auto3Dseg for processing scans and labels stored in .mha format, but noticed that the example tutorials predominantly utilise the nii.gz file format. Could you please confirm if Auto3Dseg is compatible with .mha files as well? Additionally, if .mha files are not natively supported, could you suggest an optimal workaround to accommodate this format?

Thank you for your assistance.

Best regards,
Bilal

[KumoLiu]

Hi @bilalcodehub,

I think it can be opened as well since we have ITKReader which can read that format.
https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/blob/4af23069ccbbd26d7816bafc3762365ce4c5da77/monai/data/image_reader.py#L152

Thanks,
Yun

[bilalcodehub]

Dear Yun, Thank you for confirming that Auto3DSeg supports .mha files.

Could you please clarify whether the library automatically detects and processes these files based on their extensions, or will we need to manually program this functionality?

Looking forward to your guidance.

Thanks,
Bilal

[KumoLiu]

LoadImage can automatically load date by your extension and existing package, you can try. Thanks.

[bilalcodehub]

Yes, the library works perfect with the .mha files as you described without making any changes to the code. Wonderful. Thanks.