ICS (Image Cytometry Standard)

Extensions: .ics, .ids

Developer: P. Dean et al.

Support

BSD-licensed:

Export:

Officially Supported Versions: 1.0, 2.0

Reader: ICSReader (Source Code, Supported Metadata Fields)

Writer: ICSWriter (Source Code)

Freely Available Software:

• Libics (ICS reference library)
• ICS Opener plugin for ImageJ
• IrfanView

We currently have:

• numerous ICS datasets
• public sample images

Ratings

Pixels:

Metadata:

Openness:

Presence:

Utility:

Additional Information

• ICS version 1.0 datasets have two files - an .ics file that contains all of the metadata in plain-text format, and an .ids file that contains all of the pixel data.
• ICS version 2.0 datasets are a single .ics file that contains both pixels and metadata.

Commercial applications that can support ICS include:

• Bitplane Imaris
• SVI Huygens