From 341c2e40bed9df80060af35ea7450ed1e5c2a2a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony S Yu <tsyu80@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:58:25 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix imread regression for int16 images with PIL plugin.

Regression introduced in PR 101.
---
 skimage/io/_plugins/pil_plugin.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/skimage/io/_plugins/pil_plugin.py b/skimage/io/_plugins/pil_plugin.py
index 90fffdc4..b63aecd9 100644
--- a/skimage/io/_plugins/pil_plugin.py
+++ b/skimage/io/_plugins/pil_plugin.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ def imread(fname, dtype=None):
             im = im.convert('RGB')
     elif im.mode == '1':
         im = im.convert('L')
-    elif im.mode == 'I;16':
+    elif im.mode.startswith('I;16'):
         shape = im.size
         dtype = '>u2' if im.mode.endswith('B') else '<u2'
         im = np.fromstring(im.tostring(), dtype)