1>>> import skimage.io
2>>> im = skimage.io.imread('a.tif', plugin='tifffile')
3>>> im.dtype
4dtype('uint16')
5>>> im.shape
6(288, 384, 3)
7>>> im = skimage.io.imread('a.tif', plugin='freeimage')
8>>> im.dtype
9dtype('uint16')
10>>> im.shape
11(288, 384, 3)
12