3. Confocal images¶
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The following code uses scans as an example.
Kymographs work the same way – just substitute file.scans
with file.kymos
.
To load an HDF5 file and lists all of the scans inside of it, run:
import lumicks.pylake as lk
file = lk.File("example.h5")
list(file.scans) # e.g. shows: "['reference', 'bleach', 'imaging']"
Once again, .scans
is a regular Python dictionary so we can easily iterate over it:
# Plot all scans in a file
for name, scan in file.scans.items():
scan.plot_rgb()
plt.savefig(name)
Or just pick a single one:
scan = file.scans["name"]
scan.plot_red()
3.1. Scan data and details¶
You can access the raw image data:
rgb = scan.rgb_image # matrix with `shape == (h, w, 3)`
blue = scan.blue_image # single color so `shape == (h, w)`
# Plot manually
plt.imshow(rgb)
The images contain pixel data where each pixel represents summed photon counts. For an even lower-level look at data, the raw photon count samples can be accessed:
photons = scan.red_photons
plt.plot(photons.timestamps, photons.data)
There are also several properties available for convenient access to the scan metadata:
scan.center_point_um
provides a dictionary of the central x, y, and z coordinates of the scan in micrometers relative to the brightfield field of viewscan.size_um
provides a list of scan sizes in micrometers along the axes of the scanscan.pixelsize_um
provides the pixel size in micrometersscan.lines_per_frame
provides the number scanned lines in each frame (number of rows in the raw data array)scan.pixels_per_line
provides the number of pixels in each line of the scan (number of columns in the raw data array)scan.fast_axis
provides the fastest axis that was scanned (x or y)scan.num_frames
provides the number of frames available
3.2. Plotting and Exporting¶
As shown above, there are convenience functions for plotting either the full RGB image or a single color channel.
If a few pixels dominate the image, one might want to set the scale by hand. We can pass an extra argument to plot_red
named vmax
to accomplish this. This parameter gets forwarded to matplotlib.pyplot.imshow()
:
scan.plot_red(vmax=5)
Multi-frame scans are also supported:
print(scan.num_frames)
print(scan.blue_image.shape) # (self.num_frames, h, w) -> single color channel
print(scan.rgb_image.shape) # (self.num_frames, h, w, 3) -> three color channels
scan.plot(frame=3) # plot the third frame -- defaults to the first frame if no argument is given
The images can also be exported in the TIFF format:
scan.save_tiff("image.tiff")
Scans can also be exported to video formats. Exporting the red channel of a multi-scan GIF can be done as follows for example:
scan.export_video_red("test_red.gif")
Or if we want to export a subset of frames (the first frame being 10, and the last frame being 40) of all three channels at a frame rate of 40 frames per second, we can do this:
scan.export_video_rgb("test_rgb.gif", start_frame=10, end_frame=40, fps=40)
For other video formats such as .mp4
or .avi
, ffmpeg must be installed. See
installation instructions for more information on this.