Image {EBImage} | R Documentation

## Image class

### Description

`EBImage` uses the `Image` class to store and process images. Images are stored as multi-dimensional arrays containing the pixel intensities. `Image` extends the base class `array` and uses the `colormode` slot to store how the color information of the multi-dimensional data is handled.

The `colormode` slot can be either `Grayscale` or `Color`. In either mode, the first two dimensions of the underlying array are understood to be the spatial dimensions of the image. In the `Grayscale` mode the remaining dimensions contain other image frames. In the `Color` mode, the third dimension contains color channels of the image, while higher dimensions contain image frames. The number of channels is not limited and can be any number >= 1; these can be, for instance, the red, green, blue and, possibly, alpha channel. Note that grayscale images containing an alpha channel are stored with `colormode=Color`.

All methods from the `EBImage` package work either with `Image` objects or multi-dimensional arrays. In the latter case, the color mode is assumed to be `Grayscale`.

### Usage

    Image(data, dim, colormode)
    as.Image(x)
    is.Image(x)

    ## S3 method for class 'Image'
    as.array(x, ...)
    ## S3 method for class 'Image'
    as.raster(x, max = 1, i = 1L, ...)

    colorMode(y)
    colorMode(y) <- value

    imageData(y)
    imageData(y) <- value

    getFrame(y, i, type = c('total', 'render'))
    getFrames(y, i, type = c('total', 'render'))
    numberOfFrames(y, type = c('total', 'render'))

### Arguments

`data` | A vector or array containing the pixel intensities of an image. If missing, the default 1x1 zero-filled array is used.
`dim` | A vector containing the final dimensions of an `Image` object. If missing, equals to `dim(data)`.
`colormode` | A numeric or a character string containing the color mode which can be either `Grayscale` or `Color`. If missing, equals to `Grayscale`.
`x` | An R object.
`y` | An `Image` object or an array.
`max` | Number giving the maximum of the color values range.
`i` | Number(s) of frame(s). A single number in case of `getFrame`, or a vector of frame numbers for `getFrames`. If missing all frames are returned.
`value` | For `colorMode`, a numeric or a character string containing the color mode which can be either `Grayscale` or `Color`. For `imageData`, an `Image` object or an array.
`type` | A character string containing `total` or `render`. Default is `total`.
`...` | further arguments passed to or from other methods.

### Details

Depending on `type`, `numberOfFrames` returns the total number of frames contained in the object `y` or the number of rendered frames. The total number of frames is independent of the color mode and equals to the product of all the dimensions except the two first ones. The number of rendered frames is equal to the total number of frames in the `Grayscale` color mode, or to the product of all the dimensions except the three first ones in the `Color` color mode.

`getFrame` returns the i-th frame contained in the image `y`. If `type` is `total`, the function is unaware of the color mode and returns an xy-plane. For `type=render`, the function returns the i-th image as shown by the `display` function.

### Value

`Image` and `as.Image` return a new `Image` object.

`is.Image` returns TRUE if `x` is an `Image` object and FALSE otherwise.

`as.raster` coerces an Image object to its raster representation. For stacked images the `i`-th frame is returned (by default the first one).

`colorMode` returns the color mode of `y` and `colorMode<-` changes the color mode of `y`.

`imageData` returns the array contained in an `Image` object.

### Author(s)

Oleg Sklyar, osklyar@ebi.ac.uk, 2005-2007

### See Also

`readImage`, `writeImage`, `display`

### Examples

      s1 = exp(12i*pi*seq(-1, 1, length=300)^2)
      y = Image(outer(Im(s1), Re(s1)))
      display(normalize(y))

      x = Image(rnorm(300*300*3),dim=c(300,300,3), colormode='Color')
      display(x)

      w = matrix(seq(0, 1, len=300), nc=300, nr=300)
      m = abind::abind(w, t(w), along=3)
      z = Image(m, colormode='Color')
      display(normalize(z))

      y = Image(matrix(c('red', 'violet', '#ff51a5', 'yellow'), nrow=10, ncol=10))
      display(y, interpolate=FALSE)

      ## colorMode example
      x = readImage(system.file('images', 'nuclei.tif', package='EBImage'))
      x = x[,,1:3]
      display(x, title='Cell nuclei')
      colorMode(x) = Color
      display(x, title='Cell nuclei in RGB')

[Package EBImage version 4.32.0 Index]