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+[project]
+name = "merlin-vlm"
+version = "0.0.2"
+requires-python = "==3.9"
+description = "Merlin: A Vision Language Foundation Model for 3D Computed Tomography"
+readme = "README.md"
+license = { file = "LICENSE" }
+authors = [
+    { name = "Louis Blankemeier", email = "louis.blankemeier@stanford.edu"},
+    { name = "Ashwin Kumar", email = "akkumar@stanford.edu"},
+    { name = "Stanford Machine Intelligence for Medical Imaging (MIMI)" }
+]
+classifiers = [
+    "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
+    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+    "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
+    "Intended Audience :: Healthcare Industry",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
+    "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence",
+    "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Medical Science Apps.",
+]
+dependencies = [
+    "numpy==1.26.4",
+    "torch==2.1.2",
+    "monai==1.3.0", 
+    "huggingface_hub", # tested with 0.30.1
+    "transformers==4.38.2",
+    "torchvision==0.16.2",
+    "nibabel", # tested with 5.3.2
+    "nltk", # tested with 3.9.1
+]
+
+[project.urls]
+homepage = "https://github.com/StanfordMIMI/Merlin"
+repository = "https://github.com/StanfordMIMI/Merlin"
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+dev = [
+    "ruff",
+    "pre-commit",
+    "mdformat"
+]
+
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=67.8.0"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+include = ["merlin", "merlin.data", "merlin.models", "merlin.utils"]
+exclude = ["documentation"]
+
+[tool.codespell]
+skip = '.git,*.pdf,*.svg, *.png'
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