SCIFIO status, 7/26

[Mark Hiner]

Hi all,

  This week I released SCIFIO-0.4.1
beta<https://github.com/scifio/scifio/tree/pom-scifio-0.4.1>.
The primary new feature is a
CacheService.<https://github.com/scifio/scifio/blob/pom-scifio-0.4.1/scifio/src/main/java/io/scif/img/cell/cache/CacheService.java>This
allows the
SCIFIOCellImg<https://github.com/scifio/scifio/blob/master/scifio/src/main/java/io/scif/img/cell/SCIFIOCellImg.java>,
which lazily loads image planes, to store modified planes in a temporary
disk store, allowing dataset-wide modifications and computation on images
that won't fit in memory (without modifying the original data). The caching
mechanism is fairly automated, although the API is there for direct control
if desired. For the most part you should just need to access the
CacheService if you want to change its configuration.

  For those interested in Bio-Formats/SCIFIO in C++, the latest development
branch of ITK <git://itk.org/ITK.git>was also updated this week with bug
fixes and improvements to the
itkSCIFIOImageIO<https://github.com/scifio/scifio-imageio>.
Most significantly is that the ImageIO can now read multi-series datasets.
Also, the itkSCIFIOImageIOTest<https://github.com/scifio/scifio-imageio/blob/master/test/itkSCIFIOImageIOTest.cxx>was
refactored into a more robust command line tool, capable of accepting
a
variety of configuration flags (that normally would require
re-compilation). Note that the itkSCIFIOImageIO still uses Bio-Formats, and
not the SCIFIO beta. That's something we'll update after SCIFIO 1.0.0.

  The next release will likely be 0.5.0, and will include the conversion of
SCIFIO Metadata structures to be truly N-dimensional, as well as further
improvements to the CacheService, logging, and more.

Regards,
Mark

<https://github.com/scifio/scifio/blob/pom-scifio-0.4.1/scifio/src/main/java/io/scif/img/cell/cache/CacheService.java>
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