Support for other microscopy formats through Bio-Formats

[MaximLippeveld]

Bio-Formats is a library for writing microscopy image data. It supports many different (proprietary) formats. If we can use Bio-Formats for our data loading, our tool becomes applicable to many more datasets.

Bio-Formats can be used from python with (A) the python-bioformats package or (B) through ImageJ with the pyimagej package.

Given this discussion on the image.sc forum it is not clear what the future is for option (A), so (B) is likely the best option to explore first.

[MaximLippeveld]

First implementation for loading images from CIF-files: https://gist.github.com/MaximLippeveld/a9b3c1472192986ede21879ba0b0dcb8

[MaximLippeveld]

This is currently to difficult because of the Java dependency.