[ome-users] Nikon ND2 Time information

Sebastien Besson s.besson at dundee.ac.uk
Fri Jun 7 15:05:45 BST 2013


Dear Lewis,

thanks for uploading your raw data. We will take a look at it and check if timestamps are present in the file that could be read by Bio-Formats.

In general, copying the ome-users mailing list is recommended as it is likely other users will have similar questions/requests.

Best,
Sebastien

On 7 Jun 2013, at 13:43, Kraft, Lewis James wrote:

Thanks for your reply Sebastien.  I really love the idea of this Bio-Formats project.

Is there any hope of having the Plane – DeltaT metadata field added for the .oib files?  It would be nice to have at least this feature working for the file formats from the big 4 microscopes.  I uploaded some test data for the Bio-Formats project (ID: 7327<http://qa.openmicroscopy.org.uk/qa/feedback/7327/?token=3b2871d8289d90282cd70f95807e4c37>).

Unfortunately, I am a complete beginner when it comes to Java programming, and the details of the existing project, or I would offer my help adding the needed code.  Perhaps there is an easier coding task that I might try to get my hands dirty with at first?

Also, please forgive me if I am flooding the ome-user mailing list with this message - I am not familiar with what to post, and what not to post.

Best,
Lewis

From: Sebastien Besson [mailto:s.besson at dundee.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 4:42 AM
To: Kraft, Lewis James
Cc: OME-users ome-users at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk<mailto:ome-users at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [ome-users] Nikon ND2 Time information

Hi Lewis,

first of all, I am forwarding this conversation to the ome-users mailing list.

Regarding your email, there is no PlaneDeltatT field for the .oib format as listed in http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats4/formats/olympus-fluoview-fv1000-metadata.html.
Thus the error below is not informative but expected.

As shown in the metadata table above, you should be able to read the PixelsTimeIncrement instead, i.e. for the first image series:
timeIncrement = double(omeMeta.getPixelsTimeIncrement(0));

Hope this helps,
Sebastien

On 6 Jun 2013, at 22:51, Kraft, Lewis James wrote:


Dear Sebastien,

Today I tried to read an Olympus .oib file.  I received the following error which I traced back to the following line of code:

time(index1)=double(omeMeta.getPlaneDeltaT(0,index1-1));

Java exception occurred:
java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0, Size: 0

                at java.util.ArrayList.RangeCheck(Unknown Source)

                at java.util.ArrayList.get(Unknown Source)

                at ome.xml.model.Pixels.getPlane(Pixels.java:600)

                at loci.formats.ome.OMEXMLMetadataImpl.getPlaneDeltaT(OMEXMLMetadataImpl.java:3631)

Do you have any ideas on what might have gone wrong?

Thanks much,
Lewis

From: Kraft, Lewis James
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 4:42 PM
To: 'Sebastien Besson'
Subject: RE: [ome-users] Nikon ND2 Time information

Dear Sebastien,

Ah Ha!  You are exactly correct!  Many thanks!

Cheers,
Lewis

From: Sebastien Besson [mailto:s.besson at dundee.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 4:41 PM
To: Kraft, Lewis James
Subject: Re: [ome-users] Nikon ND2 Time information

Hi Lewis,

This is because the series and the plane index are 0-based. So to retrieve the first plane of the first series, try
deltaT = double(omeMeta.getPlaneDeltaT(0,0))

Cheers,
Sebastien

On 31 May 2013, at 22:33, Kraft, Lewis James wrote:

Thanks for the replies!  Forgive me, for I am a bit clueless about the Java part of the programming, I tried the following:

>> deltaT = double(omeMeta.getPlaneDeltaT(1,1))
Java exception occurred:
java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 1, Size: 1

                at java.util.ArrayList.RangeCheck(Unknown Source)

                at java.util.ArrayList.get(Unknown Source)

                at ome.xml.model.OME.getImage(OME.java:600)

                at loci.formats.ome.OMEXMLMetadataImpl.getPlaneDeltaT(OMEXMLMetadataImpl.java:3631)

This resulted in the following error message from MATLAB.  I am not sure if it is my lack of understanding of iSeries and iPlane in your example below?

Best,
Lewis Kraft

From: Sebastien Besson [mailto:s.besson at dundee.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 2:56 PM
To: Curtis Rueden
Cc: Kraft, Lewis James; ome-users at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk<mailto:ome-users at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [ome-users] Nikon ND2 Time information

Hi Lewis,

with your variable names, you should be able to use the following to extract the timestamp of the plane iPlane for the series iSeries:

deltaT = double(omeMeta.getPlaneDeltaT(iSeries, iPlane));

As Curtis said, if this call leads to an error, you can send a sample file.

Regards,
Sebastien

On 31 May 2013, at 20:42, Curtis Rueden wrote:

Hi Lewis,

> Where can I find this time information for each image plane in the
> .nd2 files?

It is best to extract the timestamp information from the OME metadata (specifically: OME > Image > Pixels > Plane > DeltaT), since it has been standardized to a format-agnostic structure. Then you won't have to worry about whether your file is .lsm or .nd2 or etc.

If the information is not present in the OME metadata, then it means Bio-Formats is not parsing and standardizing that information properly. In that case, if you send us a sample file (via http://qa.openmicroscopy.org.uk/qa/upload/), we can work on fixing the problem.

Regards,
Curtis

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Kraft, Lewis James <lewis.j.kraft at vanderbilt.edu<mailto:lewis.j.kraft at vanderbilt.edu>> wrote:
Hello,


I am want to read the Nikon .nd2 image file using loci_tools.jar for MATLAB.  I have successfully imported the image data using loci_tools.jar with the following MATLAB commands:

imgdata=bfopen(‘fullfilepath\*.nd2’); %command for opening images using BioFormats MATLAB scripts

img=imgdata{1,1}{1,1}; %First image in the timeseries

metadata=imgdata{1,2}; %Metadata in the .nd2 file

omeMeta = imgdata{1, 4}; %OME Metadata

The Image data, and the OME metadata look fine.  However, the original metadata is missing the time information.  For example, when opening Zeiss .lsm files, I see the time information in metadata as, “*TimeStamp*,*TimeStamp*,…”.  Where can I find this time information for each image plane in the .nd2 files?


Thanks much,
Lewis Kraft



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Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression,
College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dow Street,
Dundee DD1 5EH Scotland UK   Tel: (01382) 386364


The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096

Dr Sébastien Besson
Open Microscopy Environment / Harvard Medical School
Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression,
College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dow Street,
Dundee DD1 5EH Scotland UK   Tel: (01382) 386364


The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096

Dr Sébastien Besson
Open Microscopy Environment / Harvard Medical School
Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression,
College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dow Street,
Dundee DD1 5EH Scotland UK   Tel: (01382) 386364


The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096

Dr Sébastien Besson
Open Microscopy Environment / Harvard Medical School
Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression,
College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dow Street,
Dundee DD1 5EH Scotland UK   Tel: (01382) 386364


The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096
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