{
  "id": 155789,
  "title": "Using OpenCV for dealing with this competition",
  "url": "/competitions/prostate-cancer-grade-assessment/discussion/155789",
  "author_name": "Preetham R Patlolla",
  "post_date": "2020-06-03T02:43:02.465000",
  "votes": 0,
  "comment_count": 1,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Hello,</p>\n\n<p>I'm new to Kaggle and ML. I was wondering if we can use OpenCV in accessing the data set (images). When I try doing so, I'm getting an error because of the images being .tiff (instead of png or jpeg). Am I doing something wrong in accessing them or OpenCV is not handy in this case?</p>\n\n<p>Thank you in advance</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 872321,
      "postDate": "2020-06-03T04:56:09.757Z",
      "content": "<p>Each tiff file contains 3 images of different dimensions.</p>\n\n<p>To read data you can utilize either\n- <a href=\"https://scikit-image.org/docs/stable/api/skimage.io.html#multiimage\">skimage.io.MultiImage</a>\nor\n- <a href=\"https://openslide.org/api/python/\">openslide.OpenSlide</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Each tiff file contains 3 images of different dimensions.\n\nTo read data you can utilize either\n- [skimage.io.MultiImage](https://scikit-image.org/docs/stable/api/skimage.io.html#multiimage)\nor\n- [openslide.OpenSlide](https://openslide.org/api/python/)\n"
    },
    {
      "id": 872234,
      "postDate": "2020-06-03T02:43:02.467Z",
      "content": "<p>Hello,</p>\n\n<p>I'm new to Kaggle and ML. I was wondering if we can use OpenCV in accessing the data set (images). When I try doing so, I'm getting an error because of the images being .tiff (instead of png or jpeg). Am I doing something wrong in accessing them or OpenCV is not handy in this case?</p>\n\n<p>Thank you in advance</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hello,\n\nI'm new to Kaggle and ML. I was wondering if we can use OpenCV in accessing the data set (images). When I try doing so, I'm getting an error because of the images being .tiff (instead of png or jpeg). Am I doing something wrong in accessing them or OpenCV is not handy in this case?\n\nThank you in advance"
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 872321,
      "author_name": "Raibek",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2020-06-03T04:56:09.757000",
      "content": "<p>Each tiff file contains 3 images of different dimensions.</p>\n\n<p>To read data you can utilize either\n- <a href=\"https://scikit-image.org/docs/stable/api/skimage.io.html#multiimage\">skimage.io.MultiImage</a>\nor\n- <a href=\"https://openslide.org/api/python/\">openslide.OpenSlide</a></p>",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "872321": "Each tiff file contains 3 images of different dimensions.\n\nTo read data you can utilize either\n- [skimage.io.MultiImage](https://scikit-image.org/docs/stable/api/skimage.io.html#multiimage)\nor\n- [openslide.OpenSlide](https://openslide.org/api/python/)\n",
    "872234": "Hello,\n\nI'm new to Kaggle and ML. I was wondering if we can use OpenCV in accessing the data set (images). When I try doing so, I'm getting an error because of the images being .tiff (instead of png or jpeg). Am I doing something wrong in accessing them or OpenCV is not handy in this case?\n\nThank you in advance"
  }
}