HI,
I’m trying to read in some TIFFs from an HCS platform. When I read a plate I’ll read multiple z-planes, different fields in a well and 3 or 4 channels. Each is stored as a separate TIFF file with the name relating to a single grayscale image (i.e. fairly typical for an HCS instrument).
Each folder will contain all images from a plate so can be up to ~10,000 images.
My issue comes when I want to read these files in using the Image Reader (Table) node. In my pipeline I want to read in ~10-20 images in at a time for manipulation so have various group loops to generate tables with the locations of the files I want read. When I do this the image reader is very slow i.e. minutes per image set. I have the settings so that it’s not scanning each for file type and not looking for series or groups
It appears that the presence of an automatically generated xml metadata file in the same folder is causing it to slow down - when I move the xml out of the folder the load seems to be OK - a few seconds per image set.
My current workaround is to automatically move the xml if one is found in the image folder, but is there any way to tell the image reader to ignore the xml file?