[Neuroimaging] nibabel.filebasedimages.ImageFileError for large label files

[Christopher Markiewicz]

Hi Paul,

Is it possible that the file is not actually gzipped? This is the most common cause of this error that I've seen.

Best,
Chris

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Subject: [Neuroimaging] nibabel.filebasedimages.ImageFileError for large label files

I am getting the following error when loading a large labeled NIFTI file of size 14.4 MB.

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/home/miran045/reine097/projects2/lab2im/lab2im/dcan/reproduce_load_error.py", line 7, in <module>
        img = nib.load(file_path)
      File "/home/miran045/reine097/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/nibabel/loadsave.py", line 55, in load
        raise ImageFileError(f'Cannot work out file type of "{filename}"')
    nibabel.filebasedimages.ImageFileError: Cannot work out file type of "/home/feczk001/shared/data/nnUNet/nnUNet_raw_data_base/nnUNet_raw_data/Task509_Paper/labelsTr1/1mo_sub-375518.nii.gz"

Here is the code:

    import nibabel as nib

    print(nib.__version__)

    file_path = '/home/feczk001/shared/data/nnUNet/nnUNet_raw_data_base/nnUNet_raw_data/Task509_Paper/labelsTr1/1mo_sub' \
                '-375518.nii.gz'
    img = nib.load(file_path)
    print(img.shape)

This does not happen when I try to open such files of smaller size (on the order of KB).  I can open this file in FreeSurfer FreeView without error and it looks fine.  This is happening with version 3.2.1 of NiBabel.