I'm trying to save a tiff stack using tifffile and using this solution to add ImageJ tiff metadata tags and values.
The code runs with no errors, but when I open "image info" in ImageJ, I don't see the new tag I created.
I don't really know how Tiff tags work, so I chose a tag called "Name" because this tag name exists when I open metadata that was saved with ImageJ.
I've only changed the function from the original solution a little bit to support my tag. This is the code I'm using:
def imagej_metadata_tags(metadata, byteorder):
"""Return IJMetadata and IJMetadataByteCounts tags from metadata dict.
The tags can be passed to the TiffWriter.save function as extratags.
"""
header = [{'>': b'IJIJ', '<': b'JIJI'}[byteorder]]
bytecounts = [0]
body = []
def writestring(data, byteorder):
return data.encode('utf-16' + {'>': 'be', '<': 'le'}[byteorder])
def writedoubles(data, byteorder):
return struct.pack(byteorder+('d' * len(data)), *data)
def writebytes(data, byteorder):
return data.tobytes()
metadata_types = [
('Name', b'Name', 1, writestring),
]
for key, mtype, count, func in metadata_types:
if key not in metadata:
continue
if byteorder == '<':
mtype = mtype[::-1]
values = metadata[key]
if count is None:
count = len(values)
else:
values = [values]
header.append(mtype + struct.pack(byteorder+'I', count))
for value in values:
data = func(value, byteorder)
body.append(data)
bytecounts.append(len(data))
body = b''.join(body)
header = b''.join(header)
data = header + body
bytecounts[0] = len(header)
bytecounts = struct.pack(byteorder+('I' * len(bytecounts)), *bytecounts)
return ((50839, 'B', len(data), data, True),
(50838, 'I', len(bytecounts)//4, bytecounts, True))
ijtags = imagej_metadata_tags({'Name': 'DPY'}, '>')
tif.imsave(some_path, frame, imagej=True, extratags=ijtags)
The IJMetadata
tag can only contain certain application specific information. See the doctring of the imagej_metadata_tag
function. You can specify metadata={'Name': 'A name'}
to save additional metadata in the ImageDescription
tag. ImageJ may or may not use this information. The TIFF tags used by ImageJ are not documented.