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+import glob
+import re
+import os
+import numpy as np
+import nibabel as nib
+from tqdm import tqdm
+
+
+def get_fpaths(data_dir):
+  '''Parse all the filenames and create a dictionary for each patient with structure:
+  {
+      't1': <path to t1 MRI file>
+      't2': <path to t2 MRI>
+      'flair': <path to FLAIR MRI file>
+      't1ce': <path to t1ce MRI file>
+      'seg': <path to Ground Truth file>
+  }
+  '''
+
+  # Get a list of files for all modalities individually
+  t1 = glob.glob(os.path.join(data_dir, '*/*t1.nii.gz'))
+  t2 = glob.glob(os.path.join(data_dir, '*/*t2.nii.gz'))
+  flair = glob.glob(os.path.join(data_dir, '*/*flair.nii.gz'))
+  t1ce = glob.glob(os.path.join(data_dir, '*/*t1ce.nii.gz'))
+  seg = glob.glob(os.path.join(data_dir, '*/*seg.nii.gz'))  # Ground Truth
+  
+  pat = re.compile('.*_(\w*)\.nii\.gz')
+
+  data_paths = [{
+      pat.findall(item)[0]:item
+      for item in items
+  }
+  for items in list(zip(t1, t2, t1ce, flair, seg))]
+
+  return data_paths
+
+
+def change_orientation(img):
+  img = np.moveaxis(img, 0, -1)
+  img = np.swapaxes(img, 0, -2)
+  return img
+
+
+def read_img(img_path):
+  img = np.array([np.asanyarray(nib.load(img_path).dataobj)])
+  img = change_orientation(img)
+  return img
+
+
+def get_nearest_multipleof_n(num, n):
+  return num + (n - num % n)
+
+
+def get_final_shape(data, multiple_of=16):
+  types = ['t1', 't2', 't1ce', 'flair', 'seg']
+  img_type_shapes = {t:[] for t in types}
+
+  depth = 0
+  height = 0
+  width = 0
+  for imgs in tqdm(data):
+    for img_type in types:
+      shape = imgs[img_type].shape
+      depth = shape[0] if shape[0] > depth else depth
+      height = shape[1] if shape[1] > height else height
+      width = shape[2] if shape[2] > width else width
+
+  if depth % 16 != 0:
+    depth = get_nearest_multipleof_n(depth, multiple_of)
+  if height % 16 != 0:
+    height = get_nearest_multipleof_n(height, multiple_of)
+  if width % 16 != 0:
+    width = get_nearest_multipleof_n(width, multiple_of)
+
+  return (depth, height , width)
+
+
+def get_class_frequency(data_paths, classes):
+  classes_freq = {c:0 for c in classes}
+  for imgs in tqdm(data_paths):
+    seg = read_img(imgs['seg']).flatten()
+    (unique, counts) = np.unique(read_img(imgs['seg']), return_counts=True)
+    for u, c in zip(unique, counts):
+      classes_freq[u] += c
+  return classes_freq
+
+
+def calculate_class_weights(classes_freq, classes2calculate, pixel2class):
+  freq_sum = sum([f for c, f in classes_freq.items() if pixel2class[c] in classes2calculate])
+  # inverse probability weighting
+  inverse_props = {pixel2class[c]: 1/(f/freq_sum) for c, f in classes_freq.items() if pixel2class[c] in classes2calculate}
+  return {c: p/sum([other_p for other_c, other_p in inverse_props.items() if c != other_p]) for c, p in inverse_props.items()}
+
+
+def get_preprocessed_data(data_paths:dict, scan_types=['t1', 'seg']):
+  data = []
+  for imgs in tqdm(data_paths):
+    scans = {m:read_img(imgs[m]) for m in scan_types}
+    data.append(scans)
+
+  return data