[ome-devel] BioFormats Export/Import of Composite Images

Michael Ellis michael.ellis at dsuk.biz
Fri Nov 18 17:01:55 GMT 2016


Further to this reported problem with Bio-Formats importer failing to populate the ImagePlus object with a slice name based on the BioFormats channel name (see https://trac.openmicroscopy.org/ome/ticket/13306) I put forward the following:

The code for setting the line label is to be found in the function constructSliceLabel() in the file:

https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/blob/develop/components/bio-formats-plugins/src/loci/plugins/in/ImagePlusReader.java

In particular, I put forward that line 625


    String imageName = meta.getImageName(series);

Should be changed to 

    String imageName = meta.getChannelName(ndx, cCount);

That is to say, the BioFormats channel name (where present), will be happened to the constructed slice name, rather than appending the BioFormats image name.

I have tried to build my own copy of the BioFormats ImageJ plugins but have so far failed.

Is there any way this one line fix could incorporated?

I really think this is probably what was intended in the first place as it would seem to be of little value to repeat the image name for every slice when the image name is already present in the ImagePlus as the image title.

— Michael Ellis


> On 19 Oct 2016, at 10:52, Balaji Ramalingam (Staff) <b.ramalingam at dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you for the update again.
> 
> We have been reviewing the body of work on the Bio-Formats import/export front, which includes populating the ImagePlus object appropriately.
> 
> I have updated the ticket again, with your latest comments. 
> This will get looked into at the earliest.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Best,
> Balaji
> 
> __________________
> Mr Balaji Ramalingam
> Software Developer
> OME Team
> School of Life Sciences
> University of Dundee
> 
> From: ome-devel <ome-devel-bounces at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk <mailto:ome-devel-bounces at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk>> on behalf of Michael Ellis <michael.ellis at dsuk.biz <mailto:michael.ellis at dsuk.biz>>
> Reply-To: OME External Developer List <ome-devel at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk <mailto:ome-devel at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk>>
> Date: Tuesday, 18 October 2016 at 15:50
> To: OME External Developer List <ome-devel at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk <mailto:ome-devel at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk>>
> Cc: ImageJ Interest Group <IMAGEJ at LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:IMAGEJ at LIST.NIH.GOV>>
> Subject: Re: [ome-devel] BioFormats Export/Import of Composite Images
> 
> Dear Balaji,
> 
> Thank you for the update. It seems the the ImageJ BioFormats Importer also fails to set the ImageJ pixel size in accordance with the metadata physicalSizeX/YZ parameters.
> 
>             Unit<Length> unit = UNITS.MICROMETER;
>             Length physicalSizeX = new Length(1.0, unit);
>             Length physicalSizeY = new Length(1.5, unit);
>             Length physicalSizeZ = new Length(2, unit);
> 
> — Michael Ellis
> 
> 
>> On 18 Oct 2016, at 15:25, Balaji Ramalingam (Staff) <b.ramalingam at dundee.ac.uk <mailto:b.ramalingam at dundee.ac.uk>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Thank you for sharing your issue and the code as well.
>> 
>> We were able to reproduce the issue and I have added a reference to an
>> existing ticket (to handle the slice labels appropriately in the
>> Bio-Formats Exporter as well),
>> https://trac.openmicroscopy.org/ome/ticket/13306 <https://trac.openmicroscopy.org/ome/ticket/13306>
>> 
>> This will get looked into at the earliest, and since you are already part
>> of the cc list, you will get notified when there is a status change on the
>> ticket.
>> 
>> Hope that helps.
>> Best,
>> Balaji
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> __________________
>> Mr Balaji Ramalingam
>> Software Developer
>> 
>> OME Team
>> School of Life Sciences
>> University of Dundee
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 13/10/2016, 15:43, "ome-devel on behalf of Michael Ellis"
>> <ome-devel-bounces at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk <mailto:ome-devel-bounces at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk> on behalf of
>> michael.ellis at dsuk.biz <mailto:michael.ellis at dsuk.biz>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Is it possible to use the BioFormat Exporter to save a multi-slice
>>> composite images, and then have the BioFormats Importer import that image
>>> restoring the ImageJ slice names and slice LUTS?
>>> 
>>> This ImageJ script creates a 4 channel composite image, with channel
>>> names and luts specified.
>>> 
>>> newImage("MyStack", "8-bit random", 256, 256, 4);
>>> run("Make Composite", "display=Composite");
>>> setSlice(1);
>>> run("Set Label...", "label=Dapi");
>>> run("Blue");
>>> setSlice(2);
>>> run("Set Label...", "label=Fitc");
>>> run("Green");
>>> setSlice(3);
>>> run("Set Label...", "label=TxRed");
>>> run("Red");
>>> setSlice(4);
>>> run("Set Label...", "label=Aqua");
>>> run("Cyan");
>>> 
>>> If I use BioFormats Exporter/Importer on this image, the slice labels and
>>> slice LUTS are not restored.
>>> 
>>> The created file certainly has the slice name information as can be seen
>>> from the .ome.tif header
>>> 
>>> <OME UUID="urn:uuid:9ac10dd4-2ed8-4a6e-a5ec-8a7a8309f327"
>>> xmlns="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/Schemas/OME/2015-01 <http://www.openmicroscopy.org/Schemas/OME/2015-01>"
>>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance>"
>>> xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/Schemas/OME/2015-01 <http://www.openmicroscopy.org/Schemas/OME/2015-01>
>>> http://www.openmicroscopy.org/Schemas/OME/2015-01/ome.xsd <http://www.openmicroscopy.org/Schemas/OME/2015-01/ome.xsd>">
>>> <Image ID="Image:0">
>>> <Pixels BigEndian="false" DimensionOrder="XYCZT" ID="Pixels:0"
>>> Interleaved="false" PhysicalSizeX="1.0" PhysicalSizeXUnit="μm"
>>> PhysicalSizeY="1.0" PhysicalSizeYUnit="μm" PhysicalSizeZ="1.0"
>>> PhysicalSizeZUnit="μm" SignificantBits="8" SizeC="4" SizeT="1"
>>> SizeX="256" SizeY="256" SizeZ="1" TimeIncrement="0.0"
>>> TimeIncrementUnit="s" Type="uint8">
>>> <Channel Color="-16776961" ID="Channel:0:0" Name="Dapi"
>>> SamplesPerPixel="1">
>>> <LightPath/>
>>> <Channel Color="-16711936" ID="Channel:0:1" Name="Fitc"
>>> SamplesPerPixel="1">
>>> <LightPath/>
>>> <Channel Color="-65536" ID="Channel:0:2" Name="TxRed" SamplesPerPixel="1">
>>> <LightPath/>
>>> <Channel Color="-16711681" ID="Channel:0:3" Name="Aqua"
>>> SamplesPerPixel="1">
>>> <LightPath/>
>>> <TiffData FirstC="0" FirstT="0" FirstZ="0" IFD="0" PlaneCount="1">
>>> <UUID
>>> FileName="FromImageJ.ome.tif">urn:uuid:9ac10dd4-2ed8-4a6e-a5ec-8a7a8309f32
>>> 7</UUID>
>>> <TiffData FirstC="1" FirstT="0" FirstZ="0" IFD="1" PlaneCount="1">
>>> <UUID
>>> FileName="FromImageJ.ome.tif">urn:uuid:9ac10dd4-2ed8-4a6e-a5ec-8a7a8309f32
>>> 7</UUID>
>>> <TiffData FirstC="2" FirstT="0" FirstZ="0" IFD="2" PlaneCount="1">
>>> <UUID
>>> FileName="FromImageJ.ome.tif">urn:uuid:9ac10dd4-2ed8-4a6e-a5ec-8a7a8309f32
>>> 7</UUID>
>>> <TiffData FirstC="3" FirstT="0" FirstZ="0" IFD="3" PlaneCount="1">
>>> <UUID
>>> FileName=³FromImageJ.ome.tif">urn:uuid:9ac10dd4-2ed8-4a6e-a5ec-8a7a8309f32
>>> 7</UUID>
>>> 
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