Bio-Formats is a Java library for reading and writing data in life sciences image file formats. It is developed by the Open Microscopy Environment. Bio-Formats is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL); commercial licenses are available from Glencoe Software.
Note that this is not apparent when using showinf -omexml but instead can be seen when using a tool such as tiffinfo to view the image description tag.
When viewed with showinf -omexml only a single channel element is seen:
Issue was reported on forum thread https://forum.image.sc/t/extracting-a-single-channel-using-bfconvert/91632
The original error was reported when trying to read using AICSImage resulted in the error:
The issue can be reproduced with command line tools from BF 7.1.0 and using sample file from https://github.com/NEUBIAS/training-resources/blob/2145f31cd46b81fc24f31cad4de1ca30ccaf24f6/image_data/xyc_8bit__membranes_nuclei.tif
Running the below command then generates an OME-TIFF which contains 2 channel elements in the OME-XML:
Note that this is not apparent when using
showinf -omexml
but instead can be seen when using a tool such as tiffinfo to view the image description tag.When viewed with
showinf -omexml
only a single channel element is seen:When using tiffinfo you see 2 channel elements: