Number of bins in Entropy and Enhance_contrast for uint16

[Stefan van der Walt]

Hi Pål

On 2014-12-10 12:05:19, Pål Gunnar Ellingsen <paalge at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Bitdepth of 15 may result in bad rank filter performance due to large 
> number of bins".
> I'm wondering if it is possible to reduce the number of bins via an option?
> I've tried to find such a keyword in the documentation and source code, but 
> I haven't been able to find it.

The easiest is to change the image dtype by using, e.g.,

from skimage import img_as_ubyte
image8 = img_as_ubyte(image16)

The algorithm should run much faster on image8 than on image16.

Regards
Stéfan