The files are provided in Nifti format with the extension .nii. To read the scans, we use the nibabel package. You can install the package via pip install nibabel. CT scans store raw voxel intensity in Hounsfield units (HU). They range from -1024 to above 2000 in this dataset. Above 400 are bones with different radiointensity, so this is used as a higher bound. A threshold between -1000 and 400 is commonly used to normalize CT scans.