API for reading in raw MCD files from IMC experiments

[matt-sd-watson]

In the documentation for this package it states that Steinbock outputs from IMC image analysis can be read in through the API. I am wondering if there is a similar function for importing raw MCD files from IMC experiments into a spatialdata object i.e. being able to import raw IMC images without needing to pre-process them through a pipeline and perform downstream analyses such as segmentation and quantification.

[LucaMarconato]

Thanks Matt for reaching out. We currently don't support this but it could be a good addition.

I will not be able to work on this in soon because I am focusing on making the core library more solid, but feel free to open a PR and we will happily provide feedback/help, review it.

For reference I link the part of Steinbock that is responsible to convert those files
https://github.com/BodenmillerGroup/imctools/blob/master/imctools/converters/mcdfolder2imcfolder.py