mitk-python 2026.6.dev2

Python bindings for the Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK)

mitk: Python bindings for MITK

The mitk package exposes the data structures and core utilities of the Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK) to Python. It ships as a self-contained wheel that bundles the compiled MITK runtime together with its native dependencies like ITK, VTK, and DCMTK, so you can pip install it and start working with medical images without building MITK from source.

Installation

pip install mitk-python

The PyPI distribution is named mitk-python; the import name is mitk.

Quick start

import mitk
import numpy as np

img = mitk.Image(np.zeros((64, 64, 64), dtype=np.float32), spacing=(1.0, 1.0, 2.5))
img.save("output.nrrd")

loaded = mitk.Image("output.nrrd")
print(loaded.shape, loaded.spacing, loaded.origin)

Documentation

The Python API (classes, functions, NumPy interop, file I/O, geometry, properties) is documented at docs.mitk.org/python/latest/.

The wider MITK stack (C++ modules, plugins, the application framework) is documented at docs.mitk.org/latest/.

License

MITK is available under a 3-clause BSD license. Copyright (c) German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). All rights reserved.