[ome-devel] CZI support

Mark Hiner hiner at wisc.edu
Tue May 13 18:55:02 BST 2014


Hi Steffi,

I cannot import the ZeissCZIReader, do I need some new jar or version maybe?
>

ZeissCZI is a proprietary format, so it lives in the formats-gpl component
which I believe is not imported by default by pom-fiji. You just need to
add the dependency:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>ome</groupId>
            <artifactId>formats-gpl</artifactId>
            <version>${bio-formats.version}</version>
        </dependency>

to your pom. This will also allow you to import the ZeissCZIReader directly
if it becomes necessary.

Looking more closely at the ZeissCZIReader, I was wrong about how those
fields are stored - I thought they were coming from OME-XML, but it's
actually stored in a nested class that is not exposed via the API.

 So, off-hand, it looks like if you want to get the Zeiss-specific
metadata, you should look through r.getGlobalMetadata() for keys containing
Rotations, Phases, Illuminations, etc... as it seems the values are stored
there<https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/blob/v5.0.0/components/formats-gpl/src/loci/formats/in/ZeissCZIReader.java#L2115>
.

 I am also forwarding this to the OME-devel list, as there is probably a
better way to get this metadata.

Good luck!
Mark






On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Stephan Preibisch <
preibischs at janelia.hhmi.org> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> that sounds great, I will give it a shot. I was just not really sure where
> to start. It seems everything is already in place, that is fantastic.
>
> I have some problems actually being able to implement it. I cannot import
> the ZeissCZIReader, do I need some new jar or version maybe? (I work on
> this branch directly
> https://github.com/fiji/spimreconstruction/tree/newspimreconstruction,
> using this pom.xml
> https://github.com/fiji/spimreconstruction/blob/newspimreconstruction/pom.xml
> ).
>
> Here is how I started, it is based on what Curtis implemented for me quite
> some time back and which is still the code I for example use to open
> standard LSMs using Bioformats:
>
> // should I use the ZeissCZIReader here directly?
> *final* IFormatReader r = *new* ChannelSeparator();
>
> // is that still necessary (code is below)?
> *if* ( !createOMEXMLMetadata( r ) )
> {
>  *try* { r.close(); } *catch* (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
>  *return* *null*;
> }
>
>
> *try*
> {
>  r.setId( firstFile.getAbsolutePath() );
>
> // now I should be able to query all the details, right? But how do I get
> illuminations and angles?
>  *final* *boolean* isLittleEndian = r.isLittleEndian();
> * final* *int* width = r.getSizeX();
>  *final* *int* height = r.getSizeY();
>  *final* *int* depth = r.getSizeZ();
>  *int* timepoints = r.getSizeT();
>  *int* channels = r.getSizeC();
>  *final* *int* pixelType = r.getPixelType();
>  *final* *int* bytesPerPixel = FormatTools.getBytesPerPixel( pixelType );
>  *final* String pixelTypeString = FormatTools.getPixelTypeString(
> pixelType );
>
>
>  *final* MetadataRetrieve retrieve =
> (MetadataRetrieve)r.getMetadataStore();
>
>
> *float* cal = retrieve.getPixelsPhysicalSizeX( 0
> ).getValue().floatValue();
>  *if* ( cal == 0 )
>  {
>  cal = 1;
>  IOFunctions.println( "StackListLOCI: Warning, calibration for dimension
> X seems corrupted, setting to 1." );
>  }
>  *final* *double* calX = cal;
>
> ...
>
> // and later on open the requested data
>
> } *catch* ( Exception e ) { e.printStackTrace(); }
>
> ...
>
> *public* *static* *boolean* createOMEXMLMetadata( *final* IFormatReader r
> )
> {
>  *try*
>  {
> *final* ServiceFactory serviceFactory = *new* ServiceFactory();
>  *final* OMEXMLService service = serviceFactory.getInstance(
> OMEXMLService.*class* );
>  *final* IMetadata omexmlMeta = service.createOMEXMLMetadata();
>  r.setMetadataStore(omexmlMeta);
>  }
>  *catch* (*final* ServiceException e)
>  {
> e.printStackTrace();
>  *return* *false*;
>  }
>  *catch* (*final* DependencyException e)
>  {
> e.printStackTrace();
>  *return* *false*;
>  }
>
>
> *return* *true*;
> }
>
> Thank you so much for your fast reply!!!
> Steffi
>
> On May 13, 2014, at 12:25 , Mark Hiner wrote:
>
> Hi Steffi,
>
>
> a) Read all the metadata
>>         - how many timepoints
>>         - how many channels
>>         - how many angles
>>         - how many illumination directions
>>         - calibration x,y,z (um/px)
>>
>
>  Looking at the latest Bio-Formats CZI reader<https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/blob/develop/components/formats-gpl/src/loci/formats/in/ZeissCZIReader.java>,
> it looks like there is support for this metadata already. Looking at the
> calculateDimensions<https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/blob/develop/components/formats-gpl/src/loci/formats/in/ZeissCZIReader.java#L834>method you can see that the illuminations, phases, rotations, etc... are
> all recorded, and if I understand correctly (Melissa can clarify if needed
> here) they are compressed to ZCT dimensions here<https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/blob/develop/components/formats-gpl/src/loci/formats/in/ZeissCZIReader.java#L516>
> .
>
>  Given that Bio-Formats already supports these fields, can you clarify a
> bit what functionality is missing that you'd like to see? It seems to me
> like you don't need to implement a completely new reader, but could just
> use the existing API.
>
> b) Be able to read individual 3d-stacks: Image = get( Timepoint t, Angle
>> a, Illumination i, Channel c )
>>
>
> If I am understanding correctly, what you really want to do is understand
> how these parameters are being converted to ZCT dimensions and thus plane
> ranges, and then use openBytes<https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/blob/develop/components/formats-gpl/src/loci/formats/in/ZeissCZIReader.java#L276>on the correct plane numbers using the Bio-Formats ImageReader API.
>
> Looking at calculateDimensions again, it looks like the metadata is stored
> under the plane elements in the XML, I believe. So to do what you'd want,
> you could write a little plugin that:
>
> 1) Calls setId using Bio-Formats
> 2) Checks the XML planes for the angle, illumination, etc.. parameters
> you're interested in. If they're not there, return as unsupported data.
> 3) Prompts for an input based on the ranges of these parameters
> 4) Converts the received input to image/plane numbers for Bio-Formats
> 5) Calls openBytes as necessary to build the requested 3D image.
>
> I'm envisioning it as an ImageJ plugin but you could adapt as needed.
>
> Does that make sense..? I don't think anything needs to change in the CZI
> Reader, or additional reader layers on top..
>
> Again, Melissa please correct me if I got anything wrong.
>
> Steffi, let me know if you'd like clarification on anything, or if I
> misunderstood what you're trying to do.
>
> Thanks!
> Mark
>
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Stephan Preibisch <
> preibischs at janelia.hhmi.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Melissa, Mark, Curtis,
>>
>> if you have a second, I would have a question about Bioformats, Scifio
>> and LOCI. The guys at Zeiss told me that you recently added support for the
>> multi-view, multi-channel, multi-timepoint CZI files as they are saved by
>> their Lightsheet Z.1 microscope. Is that correct?
>>
>> If so, I want to implement a specialized reader for those files. What I
>> want to achieve is the following:
>>
>> a) Read all the metadata
>>         - how many timepoints
>>         - how many channels
>>         - how many angles
>>         - how many illumination directions
>>         - calibration x,y,z (um/px)
>>
>> b) Be able to read individual 3d-stacks: Image = get( Timepoint t, Angle
>> a, Illumination i, Channel c )
>>
>> This data can be in one gigantic file or distributed over many different
>> files. So I am not sure how to start. Do you abstract that already, or
>> should I do that?
>>
>> Should I use Scifio? And if so, where should I start reading, and which
>> version do I need? Is that compatible with the current version that is in
>> Fiji?
>>
>> Thank you so much for your help!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steffi
>
>
>
>
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