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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have huge movies (20k to 60k frames) in file formats from various camera suppliers that can all be opened using bioformats. I would like to access the time series of indivindual pixels. At the moment, I do this in matlab by using
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<p class="MsoNormal">and then using the loci.formats.ChannelSeparator’s function to call<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">r.<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><a href="http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.0.6/api/loci/formats/ChannelSeparator.html#openBytes%28int,%20int,%20int,%20int,%20int%29">openBytes</a></span></strong><code><span style="font-size:10.0pt">(int no,
int x, int y, int w, int h) with w=h=1 and looping through all the planes. This takes ages. I was wondering whether there might be a smarter way to access the data I am interested in?<o:p></o:p></span></code></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><code><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Thanks very much<o:p></o:p></span></code></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><code><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> Heinrich</span></code><o:p></o:p></p>
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