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+% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/import.R
+\name{importImageData}
+\alias{importImageData}
+\title{importImageData}
+\usage{
+importImageData(
+  image,
+  tile.size = 10,
+  segments = NULL,
+  image_name = "main",
+  channel_names = NULL,
+  ...
+)
+}
+\arguments{
+\item{image}{a single or a list of image paths or magick-image objects}
+
+\item{tile.size}{the size of tiles}
+
+\item{segments}{Either a list of segments or a GeoJSON file. This will result in a second assay in the VoltRon object to be created}
+
+\item{image_name}{the image name of the Image assay, Default: main}
+
+\item{channel_names}{the channel names of the images if multiple images are provided}
+
+\item{...}{additional parameters passed to \link{formVoltRon}}
+}
+\description{
+import an image as VoltRon object
+}
+\examples{
+# single image
+imgfile <- system.file("extdata", "DAPI.tif", package = "VoltRon")
+vrdata <- importImageData(imgfile, image_name = "main")
+
+# multiple images
+imgfile <- c(system.file("extdata", "DAPI.tif", package = "VoltRon"), 
+             system.file("extdata", "DAPI.tif", package = "VoltRon"))
+vrdata <- importImageData(imgfile, image_name = "main", channel_name = c("DAPI", "DAPI2"))
+
+}