This is library to read & write image files.
Mahotas-imread is a library to read & write numpy arrays. It is an offshoot of the mahotas image processing and computer vision package.
If you use mahotas-imread in a publication, please cite the paper for the mother package:
Luis Pedro Coelho. Mahotas: Open source software for scriptable computer vision in Journal of Open Research Software, vol 1, 2013. [DOI]