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+# Copyright 2020 MONAI Consortium
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import numpy as np
+import nibabel as nib
+
+
+def write_nifti(data, affine, file_name, revert_canonical, dtype="float32"):
+    """Write numpy data into nifti files to disk.
+
+    Args:
+        data (numpy.ndarray): input data to write to file.
+        affine (numpy.ndarray): affine information for the data.
+        file_name (string): expected file name that saved on disk.
+        revert_canonical (bool): whether to revert canonical.
+        dtype (np.dtype, optional): convert the loaded image to this data type.
+
+    """
+    assert isinstance(data, np.ndarray), 'input data must be numpy array.'
+    if affine is None:
+        affine = np.eye(4)
+
+    if revert_canonical:
+        codes = nib.orientations.axcodes2ornt(nib.orientations.aff2axcodes(np.linalg.inv(affine)))
+        reverted_results = nib.orientations.apply_orientation(np.squeeze(data), codes)
+        results_img = nib.Nifti1Image(reverted_results.astype(dtype), affine)
+    else:
+        results_img = nib.Nifti1Image(np.squeeze(data).astype(dtype), np.squeeze(affine))
+
+    nib.save(results_img, file_name)