Class CellVoyagerReader

All Implemented Interfaces:
Closeable, AutoCloseable, ICompressedTileReader, IFormatHandler, IFormatReader, IMetadataConfigurable, IPyramidHandler

public class CellVoyagerReader extends FormatReader
A bioformat reader for the Yokagawa Cellvoyager CV1000 automated microscope ( http://www.yokogawa.com/scanner/products/cv1000e.htm).

This reader opens the dataset generated by the Yokagawa Cellvoyager automated microscope. The user should point the reader to the file named MeasurementResult.xml in the dataset folder.

The file format itself consists of several nested folder containing a lot of - sometimes redundant - information. This specific reader exploits the following files:

  • MeasurementResult.xml that contains high level information about image geometry, well (if any) organization, fields arrangement, etc..
  • MeasurementResult.ome.xml is a malformed OME xml file that contains information on one of the numerous TIF files that compose the pixel data. It is used to easily extract common metadata.
  • All the TIF files in the Image folder: They contain the pixel data itself. Each well (if any) can have several Areas (fields in the HCS vocable), in turn composed of several tiles that are to be stitched border to border, without the possibility of a more subtle stitching process.
This reader stitches each area on the fly upon loading. It yields one series per well x area. If there is 20 wells each made of 2 areas, 40 series will be available.

This reader version was derived from reverse-engineering data files generated on a system hosted by the imaging facility of the Institut Pasteur, Paris (Imagopole / PFID). It spits file versioned 1.0. The file format contains several obvious typos, notably in some XML tags, and as mentionned above, the ome.xml is malformed. It is likely that that subsequent versions of the CellVoyager format will fix these problems, alas incapacitating this reader. Should it happen, mail the author to help them update this reader.

Author:
Jean-Yves Tinevez jeanyves.tinevez at gmail.com, Melissa Linkert