diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/niftyseg/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/niftyseg/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..671ee4b95c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/niftyseg/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ stdenv, lib, fetchurl, cmake, eigen, zlib }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname   = "niftyseg";
+  version = "1.0";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url    = "https://github.com/KCL-BMEIS/NiftySeg/archive/v${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "11q6yldsxp3k6gfp94c0xhcan2y3finzv8lzizmrc79yps3wjkn0";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
+  buildInputs = [ eigen zlib ];
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = http://cmictig.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/software/software-nifty/niftyseg;
+    description = "Software for medical image segmentation, bias field correction, and cortical thickness calculation";
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ bcdarwin ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    license   = licenses.bsd3;
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 84d6af1aacb..4522fb4fdd3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -21196,6 +21196,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   niftyreg = callPackage ../applications/science/biology/niftyreg { };
 
+  niftyseg = callPackage ../applications/science/biology/niftyseg { };
+
   paml = callPackage ../applications/science/biology/paml { };
 
   picard-tools = callPackage ../applications/science/biology/picard-tools { };