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 # NiiVue brainchop
 
+<span style="color: red">**This repository is archived. Features developed here have been merged with the main [brainchop repository](https://github.com/neuroneural/brainchop)**</span>
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 This is an experimental version of [brainchop](https://github.com/neuroneural/brainchop) that uses [NiiVue](https://github.com/niivue/niivue) to segment and visualize voxel based images. 
 
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