VSI Reader, new version

Posted by Olivier Burri on Mar 05, 2013; 4:14pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/VSI-Reader-new-version-tp5002009.html

Dear List,
We've made a few updates to the reader for Olympus VSI Files
For the more info and documentation, please visit
http://biop.epfl.ch/INFO_completed_projects.html#vsi-reader
Updates include:


-          Proper bit depth is taken when downsampling images.


-          We can now fairly accurately read labels, masks, overview scans from the images. This is still based on empirical formulas to recognize which files are which, so if you have some troublesome files, feel free to let us know. When the great team at BioFormats manages to parse the metadata from the SVI files directly, we'll make sure to modify our macro accordingly.


-          We've added an Update Site for our platform containing the macro, as per Johannes's suggestion.
host: http://biop.epfl.ch/Fiji-Update,
Latest versions will still be available through our website as .zip downloads, but if you want to keep up with the latest modifications, you can add an update site for our platform to the Fiji Updater, see instructions at http://fiji.sc/wiki/index.php/How_to_follow_a_3rd_party_update_site
The only issue we have is regarding the icons used for the actionbar buttons: There is an incompatibility between Fiji's Updater and the ActionBar plugin that does not allow for the upload of the icons to the update site. In the meantime, you can get the icons separately on our website if you really want them :). Note that once the icons are installed, the update site is enough, as the only thing that will change is the .ijm file.

-          So far we've had no more issues with the latest LOCI installations so hopefully this is a thing of the past and it should run 'out of the box'.

All the best,

Oli


Olivier Burri
Engineer - Image Processing
& Software Development
EPFL - SV - PTECH - PTBIOP


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