Python wrapper for libics (Image Cytometry Standard).
Project description
Introduction
The Image Cytometry Standard (ICS) is a file format for images, primarily in microscopy imaging. The file format has been described by Dean1990. ICS files allow to store further information on the imaging system along with the actual image (e.g aperture, light setting, microscope, and camera). Moreover, the file format allows to store several integer format, floating point images as well as complex valued images.
The library libics is a C library to read an write ICS image files. This module wraps the functions provided by libics to Python. Actual image data are returned as numpy arrays. Numpy array in turn can be written to ICS image files.
Limitations and known bugs
Ics data written as version 2.0 is broken
Accessing ics history entries with the iterator interface seems not to work properly
Compression appears to be not working
Installation instructions
You can download the source code package to compile everything yourself or you can use easy_install to install the precompiled package (py2.6, win32 and linux, x86_64). To compile the package please follow the instructions provided in the README file.
Windows
Installing with easy_install is done by calling from the windows command prompt (C:>):
C:> easy_install pylibics
Linux
Installing with easy_install is done by calling from the command prompt:
> easy_install pylibics
Usage
Please see the project homepage for usage examples. Also refer to the examples provided in the source package.
Release Changes
- 1.5.2b1, Released 2010-11-23
Basic support for libics
