How to deal with .BIF in MATLAB

Hey everybody,

I'm a student researcher at UNMC and I am trying to analyze microscope images in the .BIF and .TIF file format. I have tried uploading them to MATLAB using imread and then displaying them with imshow, but the image I get is only a thumbnail... The original image is tens of thousands of pixels in width and height while the image shown and the matrix imported by matlab is only 2000 or 3000 pixels wide or tall. The original file for some of these images can reach sizes of 19 GB.

Is there another way to import these images so that I get the full image at its maximum resolution?

Thanks!

p.s. I have been able to upload files of nearly 1 GB in the JP2 file format, but not in these formats...

p.p.s. this is very similar to a post from last year that was never fully resolved:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/88266-does-anyone-know-how-to-deal-with-bif-image-files

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

That's not a supported format so you'll have to find a reader for .bif or else write your own, that is, if you can't export the images from the microscope in a more widely used standard format.