[Insight-users] ZEISS Microscopy image file support

[Michael Jackson]

Not sure about the .zvi but one avenue is to export as a tiff/bmp and  
the AxioVision will also export an xml file that contains all the meta  
data for the image. Then you need to apply to Zeiss for a license for  
the xml format documentation. Then you can write an XML parser that  
will parse all the meta data from the xml file.
   Yep, long, arduous and a pain but this is what we ended up doing  
instead of trying to support .zvi or reverse engineering the format.
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Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer       mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio



On Aug 31, 2010, at 9:22 AM, qianc at ee.ethz.ch wrote:

> Dear list,
> I have been working on the microscopy image processing recently. Now  
> the images I mostly use are taken from a ZEISS 200m Microscope and  
> an Axiovision software(professional image processing software coming  
> together with the Microscope, every additional module costs  
> thousands of dollars).
>
> The image format for Axiovision is call "ZVI". Although the image  
> could be saved (exported)as tiff...or other normal format, I am  
> afraid the spatial information will lose. What I would like to do is  
> taking the advantage of the ITK to process this image format(.zvi  
> file) directly. Does anyone know if ITK supports this format? Or  
> some other available plugin for ITK to support it? Any suggestion  
> would be appreciated. Thanks!
> Best,
> Cheng Qian
>