open of images use a generic library

[manerotoni]

Hello, I am now teaching the course and I feel that the way we teach to open the images using our own written code open_ij_tiff is not generic enough. In my opinion we should also use standard libraries, that also allows to open different formats (AICSimage, skimage standard opener...)

I do not remember why we wrote the whole open_ij_tiff. It had something to do with the URL?

ping at @tischi, @tibuch

[tischi]

I think the reason was that we could not easily get anything else to work, especially when extracting the voxel sizes.

If you find something better let us know!

The good thing now is that the code of Bugra is conda installable.

[manerotoni]

I often used AICSImageIO as it had some useful features for large images. It also reads the metadata, but I have to check if it works for our material.

What I encountered was an image that was in ome format and this image I could not open with the open_ij_tiff. Ideally it should open even without being able to handle the metadata.

[tischi]

We had this discussion I think and decided to keep it simple and only open IJ-TIFF.