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However, many interventions developed using small animal models fail to translate to human use due to physical or biological differences. Recently, large-animal minipigs have emerged in neuroscience due to both their brain similarity and economic advantages. Medical image processing is a crucial part of research, as it allows researchers to monitor their experiments and understand disease development. By pairing four reinforcement learning models and five deep learning UNet segmentation models with existing algorithms, we developed PigSNIPE, a pipeline for the automated handling, processing, and analyzing of large-scale data sets of minipig MR images. PigSNIPE allows for image registration, AC-PC alignment, detection of 19 anatomical landmarks, skull stripping, brainmask and intracranial volume segmentation (DICE 0.98), tissue segmentation (DICE 0.82), and caudate-putamen brain segmentation (DICE 0.8) in under two minutes. 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