# Supported Image File Formats

Read and write to and from [`Image`](/typescript/interface_types/Image.html) is supported. For visualization with [vtk.js](https://kitware.github.io/vtk-js/index.html), use [`convertItkToVtkImage`](https://kitware.github.io/vtk-js/api/Common_DataModel_ITKHelper.html).

- [BioRad](https://www.bio-rad.com/)
- [BMP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format)
- [DICOM](https://dicom.nema.org/)
- [DICOM Series](https://dicom.nema.org/)
- [ITK HDF5](https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/)
- [JPEG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_File_Interchange_Format)
- [Gipl (Guys Image Processing Lab)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12956259)
- [LSM](https://www.openwetware.org/wiki/Dissecting_LSM_files)
- [MetaImage](https://itk.org/Wiki/ITK/MetaIO/Documentation)
- [MINC 2.0](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MINC/SoftwareDevelopment/MINC2.0_File_Format_Reference)
- [MGH](https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/MghFormat)
- [MRC](http://www.ccpem.ac.uk/mrc_format/mrc_format.php)
- [NifTi](https://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/nifti-1)
- [NRRD](http://teem.sourceforge.net/nrrd/format.html)
- [Portable Network Graphics (PNG)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics)
- [Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIFF)
- [VTK legacy file format for images](https://www.vtk.org/VTK/img/file-formats.pdf)
- [Scanco microCT volume file format](https://www.scanco.ch/en/support/customer-login/faq-customers/faq-customers-import-export.html)
- [Varian FDF](https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITKIOFDF)

For visualization with [vtk.js](https://kitware.github.io/vtk-js/index.html), use [`vtkITKHelper.convertItkToVtkImage`](https://kitware.github.io/vtk-js/api/Common_DataModel_ITKHelper.html) ([example](https://kitware.github.io/vtk-js/examples/ItkWasmVolume.html)).