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-# med-imagetools: transparent and reproducible medical image processing pipelines in Python
-From messy TCIA folders to deep learning ready Nrrd/NiFTIs in one line. 
+# Med-Imagetools: Transparent and Reproducible Medical Image Processing Pipelines in Python
+
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+Med-Imagetools, a python package offers the perfect tool to transform messy medical dataset folders to deep learning ready format in few lines of code. It not only processes DICOMs consisting of different modalities (like CT, PET, RTDOSE and RTSTRUCTS), it also transforms them into deep learning ready subject based format taking the dependencies of these modalities into consideration.  
+
+## Introduction
+A medical dataset, typically contains multiple different types of scans for a single patient in a single study. As seen in the figure below, the different scans containing DICOM of different modalities are interdependent on each other. For making effective machine learning models, one ought to take different modalities into account.
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+<a href="url"><img src="https://github.com/bhklab/med-imagetools/blob/master/images/graph.png" align="center" width="480" ><figcaption>Fig.1 - Different network topology for different studies of different patients</figcaption></a>  
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+Med-Imagetools is a unique tool, which focuses on subject based Machine learning. It crawls the dataset and makes a network by connecting different modalities present in the dataset. Based on the user defined modalities, med-imagetools, queries the graph and process the queried raw DICOMS. The processed DICOMS are saved as nrrds, which med-imagetools converts to torchio subject dataset and eventually torch dataloader for ML pipeline.
+
+<a href="url"><img src="https://github.com/bhklab/med-imagetools/blob/master/images/methodology.png" align="center" width="500"><figcaption>Fig.2 - Med-Imagetools start to end pipeline</figcaption></a>  
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+## Installing med-imagetools
 
-## Installation
 ```
 pip install med-imagetools
 ```
-
 ### (recommended) Create new conda virtual environment
 ```
 conda create -n mit
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 ## Demo
-```
-Under Construction
-```
+These google collab notebooks will introduce the main functionalities of med-imagetools. More information can be found [here](https://github.com/bhklab/med-imagetools/blob/master/examples/README.md)
+#### Tutorial 1: Forming Dataset with med-imagetools Autopipeline
+
+[![Google Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/skim2257/tcia_samples/blob/main/notebooks/Tutorial_1_Forming_Dataset_with_Med_Imagetools.ipynb)
+
+#### Tutorial 2: Machine Learning with med-imagetools and torchio
+
+[![Google Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/skim2257/tcia_samples/blob/main/notebooks/Tutorial_2_Machine_Learning_with_Med_Imagetools_and_torchio.ipynb)
+
+## Getting Started
+Med-Imagetools takes two step approch to turn messy medical raw dataset to ML ready dataset.  
+1. ***Autopipeline***: Crawls the raw dataset, forms a network and performs graph query, based on the user defined modalities. The relevant DICOMS, get processed and saved as nrrds
+    ```
+    python imgtools/autopipeline.py\
+     [INPUT DATASET DIRECTORY] \
+     [OUTPUT DIRECTORY] \
+     --modalities [FOR EX: CT,RTSTRUCT,PT] \
+     --spacing [(int,int,int)]\
+     --n_jobs [int]\
+     --visualize [TRUE\FALSE]\
+    ```
+2. ***class Dataset***: This class converts processed nrrds to torchio subjects, which can be easily converted to torch dataset
+    ```
+    from imgtools.io import Dataset
+
+    subjects = Dataset.load_from_nrrd(output_directory, ignore_multi=True)
+    data_set = tio.SubjectsDataset(subjects)
+    data_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(data_set, batch_size=4, shuffle=True, num_workers=4)
+    ```
+
+## Contributors
+
+Thanks to the following people who have contributed to this project:
 
-### AutoPipeline CLI
+* [@mkazmier](https://github.com/mkazmier)
+* [@skim2257](https://github.com/skim2257)
+* [@Vishwesh4](https://github.com/Vishwesh4)
 
-### Pipeline custom processing
+## Contact
 
-### From Training a model with Dataset 
+If you want to contact, you can reach the following contributors at  sejin.kim@uhnresearch.ca or vishweshramanathan@gmail.com
 
-## Upcoming Features
-* TorchIO Support
-* More demos/example scripts
+## License
 
+This project uses the following license: [Apache License 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/)