From 9b19bd9afcc1b23d05ae6b3550981aeea01025c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cgohlke <cgohlke@uci.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 15:57:09 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Workaround 16 bit image to numpy array conversion bug in PIL

---
 skimage/io/_plugins/pil_plugin.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/skimage/io/_plugins/pil_plugin.py b/skimage/io/_plugins/pil_plugin.py
index 7fc3a0fc..03ec85f3 100644
--- a/skimage/io/_plugins/pil_plugin.py
+++ b/skimage/io/_plugins/pil_plugin.py
@@ -20,7 +20,11 @@ def imread(fname, dtype=None):
         else:
             im = im.convert('RGB')
 
-    if 'A' in im.mode:
+    if im.mode == 'I;16':  
+        shape = im.size
+        im = np.fromstring(im.tostring(), dtype=np.uint16)
+        im.shape = shape[::-1]
+    elif 'A' in im.mode:
         im = im.convert('RGBA')
 
     return np.array(im, dtype=dtype)