speeding up tiff writing

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Jeff Spector
Jeff Spector on 30 Jul 2019
Commented: Walter Roberson on 31 Jul 2019
I'm trying to write a large (~18,000) frame image stack to a tiff file. See code below :
imgname=[SubDataFolder,...
'/_BG_',num2str(0),'_BGstd_',num2str(0),'_kappa',num2str(kappa),'_run_',num2str(runNum),'.tiff']; % 0 just sets the image name
imwrite(uint16(BgIm160(:, :,1)),imgname); % - writes the first image
disp(['Starting Image Writing Loop for ',imgname]) % - for trouble shooting
for(k=2:num_images) % - writes the rest of the images
imwrite(uint16(BgIm160(:, :, k)),imgname,'WriteMode','append');
fracdone=round((k./num_images)*100) % - shows hoe much is done
%
end
This is taking a REALLY long time, is it just becuase 18k slices is a lot to write in a file (each slice is 200x500), and I just need to be patient, or is there a better/faster way to write this to a .tif file (for later analysis in ImageJ)
thanks
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Jeff Spector
Jeff Spector on 31 Jul 2019
I've looked but can't find a good example of using TIff to write a multipage tiff file. I've got several CPUs on this machine, could I do this with the parallel computing toolbox's parfor loop to speed it up, or will it write the images in the wrong order?
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 31 Jul 2019
https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/tiff.writedirectory.html

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