ImageSequence¶
An image sequence is a collection of image files with sequential filenames.
ImageSequence can be instatiated using:
- a directory name, such as a
'my_directory' - a “glob” string, such as
'my_directory/*.png', which is safer than using a directory because directories sometimes contain stray files - the filepath of a zipped archive, such as
'my_directory/all-images.zip' - a list of filepaths, such as
['image1.png', 'image2.png']
ImageSequenceND¶
See also
The section Multidimensional Readers describes how to deal with multidimensional files.
This class allows reading of N-dimensional Image Sequences with multiple indices
in the file name, for instance: ['image_z00_t00.png', 'image_z01_t00.png'].
ReaderSequence¶
This class allows stacking N-dimensional readers creating another N-dimensional with an extra dimension. For example:
reader = pims.ReaderSequence('path/to/files/image*.tif', pims.BioformatsReader)
Dependencies¶
Several widely-used Python packages have slightly different implementations
of imread, a general purpose image-reading function that understands
popular formats like PNG, JPG, TIFF, and others. PIMS requires one of
the following packages, in order of decreasing preference.
Scikit-image is installed with the PIMS conda package.