From 10ce9b89abaf7f2d9bb914771bb77d7f1ded55f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luis Pedro Coelho <luis@luispedro.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 22:32:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] RFCT Use `skimage.utils.convert` for type conversion

---
 skimage/io/_plugins/imread_plugin.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/skimage/io/_plugins/imread_plugin.py b/skimage/io/_plugins/imread_plugin.py
index 7e7681b0..323fbec8 100644
--- a/skimage/io/_plugins/imread_plugin.py
+++ b/skimage/io/_plugins/imread_plugin.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 __all__ = ['imread', 'imsave']
 
 import numpy as np
+from skimage.utils.dtype import convert
 
 try:
     import imread as _imread
@@ -20,7 +21,7 @@ def imread(fname, dtype=None):
     """
     im = _imread.imread(fname)
     if dtype is not None:
-        im = im.asdtype(dtype)
+        im = convert(im, dtype)
     return im
 
 def imsave(fname, arr, format_str=None):