The amount of redundant scientific/medical/industrial image file formats is amazing. Just off the top of my head there is DICOM, FITS, NIFTI, NRRD, plus TIFF.

The amount of redundant scientific/medical/industrial image file formats is amazing. Just off the top of my head there is DICOM, FITS, NIFTI, NRRD, plus TIFF. They all have the basic property of having raster data of arbitrary channels/depth plus a whole bunch of metadata. It feels like every new industry I work with I discover they have their own redundant image format.