scikit-image/scikit-image — pull request #373 by luispedro (2012-11-05 22:20:15+00:00)
Title: ENH Add imread io plugin

This relies on imread (https://github.com/luispedro/imread) which
supports a few microscopy formats otherwise hard to read (LSM and
MetaMorph STK) as well as basic ones.

I expect that imread will become more powerful in the future, but, for the moment, I think the big advantage is the microscopy formats.