Integrating NiiVue into VS Code – A flexible image viewer for neuroimaging pipeline developers

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For the development of new imaging and reconstruction methods, it is essential to have a convenient way to quickly view and compare images. While many professional viewers exist for medical images, they fail to streamline the workflow for developers. It is often inconvenient to transfer the files from the reconstruction computer to the device with the imaging software installed. Moreover, software is often limited to specific operating systems and supports only a small subset of image formats. Therefore, we developed a medical image viewer extension for Visual Studio Code (vscode) based on the NiiVue project [1] for simple and fast viewing of local and remote files. This viewer is primarily targeted towards developers of reconstruction pipelines, but also supports a wide range of imaging workflows in vscode.