TeraStitcher comes along with a set of image file format plugins that enable both 2D and 3D image I/O. The following plugins can be selected using the user inputs --imin_plugin and --imout_plugin for input and output, respectively. Some plugins support only input operations. Some plugins may need configuration parameters. You can input these by --imin_plugin_params and --imout_plugin_params for input and output, respectively. You can display a description of all available plugins, their configuration parameters and additional parameters required by some of their operations by running TeraStitcher with the command line option --pluginsinfo.

2D image-based I/O plugin that uses the libtiff library to read/write 2D tiffs.

Supported image format extentions are:

• TIFF
• TIF

Accepted configuration parameters:

• none

3D image-based I/O plugin that uses the libtiff library to read/write multipage tiffs.

Supported image format extentions are:

• TIFF
• TIF

Accepted configuration parameters:

• none

3D image-based I/O plugin that uses the HDF5 library to o implement the format used by Imaris.

Accepted configuration parameters:

• resolution=<integer>: the resolution to be read
• timepoint=<integer>: the timepoint to be read
• channel=<integer>: the channel to be read

3D image-based I/O plugin that implements the format used by Hamamatsu cameras.

Accepted configuration parameters:

• resolution=<integer>: the resolution to be read
• timepoint=<integer>: the timepoint to be read
• channel=<integer>: the channel to be read

available with the source code, not included in the precompiled binaries.

2D image-based I/O plugin that uses the OpenCV library to read/write 2D image files.

Supported image format extentions are:

• BMP
• DIB
• JPEG
• JPG
• JPE
• PNG
• PBM
• PGM
• PPM
• SR
• RAS
• TIFF
• TIF

Accepted configuration parameters:

• none

available with the source code, not included in the precompiled binaries.

A dummy 2D image-based I/O plugin to demonstrate the extensibility of TeraStitcher I/O (see Write an IO plugin:example).

Supported image formats:

• none

Accepted configuration parameters:

• astring: example parameter to pass a string
• aninteger: example parameter to pass an integer