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Closes #1102
Closes #1143

This PR (draft for now) is the logical extension of the GrainCrops GrainCropDirections and ImageGrainCrops introduced by @SylviaWhittle in #1022 and switches to using the TopoStats class @ns-rse introduced in #1145 for handling images and the derived datasets (arrays) such that the unit of interest is individual grains.

It is at the moment far from complete as the checklist shows below but because of the large amount of changes and reorganisation I was keen to share it in stages. The tests for each commit pass (thanks pytest-testmon 😀 ) but until all steps are complete the integration tests (tests_processing.py and tests_run_modules.py won't pass, I'm working on them as I go through each class).

Its perhaps worth reading the commit messages for the individual commits for a little more information on the re-organisation that has been done so far.

  • LoadScans
  • Filters
  • Grains
  • GrainStats
  • DisorderedTracing
  • NodeStats
  • OrderedTracing
  • Splining
  • Curvature

Of note...

Shared Methods

Some methods from Grains were used @staticmethod from GrainCrops and have been moved out to utils. I've setup some skeleton tests for these but they fail (get 2x5 arrays back when I would have expected 5x5 arrays from flattening 5x5x3 arrays). Couldn't see any existing tests for these.

Documentation

I intend to document the class structures and in turn the HDF5 format these are written to.

Syrupy

I've closed #1143 as the key test which used .pkl's and required manually updating has been addressed. I think we could still switch all tests to use syrupy (see #1152).

AFMReader

These changes will also require modifications to AFMReader and perhaps moving LoadScans over but I'm wary of introducing a circular dependency and have already discussed with @SylviaWhittle this. We felt that perhaps AFMReader should only load files and return dictionaries. Re-constructing these to TopoStats / ImageGrainCrops / GrainCropsDirection / GrainCrop should be the domain of TopoStats. I don't think this should be a problem for the Napari plug-in as it could import and use whatever it needs from either.


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  • Existing tests pass.
  • Documentation has been updated and builds. Remember to update as required...
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  • New functions/methods have typehints and docstrings.
  • New functions/methods have tests which check the intended behaviour is correct.

@ns-rse ns-rse added Filters Issues pertaining to the Filters class Grains Issues pertaining to the Grains class IO Input and Output refactor Refactoring of code labels May 7, 2025
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This is looking very good!

I've checked this out locally and just followed the threads of where data goes, and it looks very nice.

One thing, is to maybe move things out of / don't add more to utils.py given that IIRC we are wanting to eventually eliminate it? Perhaps a grain_handling.py or something?

I'll have a further look next week with Laura but looking great so far 👍

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Oops meant to merely comment, not approve, sorry!

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Now have run_nodestats working with TopoStats objects, haven't yet fixed all the unit tests against this but pushing on with ordered_tracing, splining and curvature and will address all failing unit tests once these are done.

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- [X] `LoadScans`
- [ ] `Filters`
- [ ] `Grains`
- [ ] `GrainStats`
- [ ] `DisorderedTracing`
- [ ] `NodeStats`
- [ ] `OrderedTracing`
- [ ] `Splining`
Switches `Filters()` class over to using `TopoStats` class objects as input. Tests directly on `Filters()` are updated,
but integration tests (i.e. of how this impacts on `run_modules.py` and `processing.py`) have _not_ been included in
this commit as they also require updating the other classes (`Grains` / `DisorderedTracing` / `NodeStats` / `OrderedTracing` / `Splining`)
The `Grains` class now works with `TopoStats` classes, however...because `GrainCrops` was used in `TopoStats` and this work meant `TopoStats` was used by `Grains` we introduced a circular dependency which Python, reasonably,  complains about. The solution has been to move the class definitions to their own modules `topostats.classes`, but that wasn't without some issues since there are static methods of the `Grains` class that were used _within_ `GrainCrop`. For now these have been moved to the `utils` module and I've started writing tests for them (as they didn't appear to have any).

As a consequence this commit has a lot of things moving around which _will_ make it a pain to review, but hopefully this will be worth it.

For now the whole test suite does _not_ pass all tests because the integration tests where the pipeline is run
end-to-end fails. No attempt has been made to correct this yet because ultimately we would like to simply update the `TopoStats` objects and pass them around and that will only be addressed once each processing step/class has been refactored to work with these.

Subsequent modules should be a little easier to refactor now that the circular dependencies have been broken.
Switches `GrainStats` to take the `TopoStats` object as an argument and extract the `ImageGrainCrops.GrainCropDirection.crops` (be that `above` or `below`) and calculates the statistics from the returned dictionary.

Tests are updated and passed for this module alone, integration tests still fail and will be addressed after all modules are updated.
ns-rse and others added 22 commits October 13, 2025 14:07
Updates the `DisorderedTracing` class to use `TopoStats` objects.

- Removes `.pkl` that are loaded for regression testing in
`test/traces/test_disorder_tracing.py::test_trace_image_disordered()` in favour of using
[syrupy](https://syrupy-project.github.io/syrupy/) and in doing so closes #1143.

Fixes disordered tracing tests, these were broken (by me!) because I had misunderstood the structure of disordered tracing.

The whole `TopoStats` object, which contains `GrainCrop` us passed into `disordered_tracing.trace_image_disordered()` function. This handles looping over the various `GrainCrop` and there is currently no need to attempt passing `GrainCrop` into the `disordered_tracing.disordered_trace_grain()` function (which handles instantiating and running the methods associated with `disorderedTrace`).

Other things...

- Added an as yet unused `GrainCrop` fixture
- Updated `test_trace_image_disordered_dataframes()` to use distinct, parameterised, `filename`
- Switched `test_trace_image_disordered_dataframes()` to syrupy from regtest
- `test_smooth_mask()` - Needed to setup a fixture to take a `GrainCrop` as an argument but this attribute isn't used,
- instead the `smooth_mask()` method takes a boolean mask (as int) to perform smoothing, thus we pass that in directly after having instantiated an instance of `disorderedTracing` with the `GrainCrop` to make the method available.
- `get_local_pixels_binary()` - A simple test that the surrounding local pixels of a given coordinate are returned as well as testing that `IndexError` is raised if the coordinates are on the edge of the image.
Its cumbersome to have `.npy` / `.pkl` files loaded to restore the targets against which tests are performed because should these need updating users have to manually uncomment code-chunks to save new versions, add the comments back in and then re-run the tests.

Fortunately this sort of problem has already been addressed and this PR switches tests that used this strategy to use the [syrupy](https://github.com/syrupy-project/syrupy/) package. The one short coming that is has is that it doesn't natively support Pandas DataFrames or Numpy Arrays, to work around this these are converted to string for "snapshotting".

Now when tests need updating then as with `pytest-regtest` that we use to compare dataframes its simply a case of use the `--snapshot-update` flag to update the files.

It was felt this was required prior to undertaking refactoring of code to use `TopoStats` objects in case there are changes in the way objects are stored.
Adds two new dataclasses..

- `MatchedBranches`
- `Nodes`

...for storing data and attributes related to nodestats rather than the existing `TypedDicts`.

- Resurected some resources and moved to `tests/resources/tracing/` which updated...
  - `tests/tracing/test_disordered_tracing.py`
  - `tests/tracing/test_ordered_tracing.py`
  - `tests/tracing/test_splining.py`

Need to work out where everything is going to be stored and how to pass disordered_trace data from the `GrainCrop` into
`nodestats_image` but typically it's a bit messy.

Also need to work out why the `tests/tracing/test_disordered_tracing.py` fails in a few places, I thought I'd finished
that work off.
- Move things around in resources so they are better organised.
- Disable parallel testing, its a pain when developing and running individual tests, too much setup time.

Need to add a bunch of attributes from disordered tracing to `GrainCrop` objects so that they are available....

`disordered_tracing_direction_data` which is a dictionary. Whether this should get passed into the `NodeStats` class I'm
unsure, that adds a lot of work passing things around and I would like to get the basic idea of working with GrainCrop
objects working and only then dig really deep into replacing things.

To which end can probably undo some of the changes in this PR that are made to the nodeStats class as it is
`notestats_image()` which instantiates the class with the correct things.
We need to pass around the results of `trace_image_disordered()`, currently this is done by returning dictionaries but
we are moving away from that to using `dataclass` so we define a new dataclass for `DisorderedTrace` and we add that as
an attribute to the `GrainCrop` class so that we can store the disordered tracing within the `GrainCrop`.
Just starting to get NodeStats(graincrop) working which takes in a `GrainCrop`. These now have the attribute
`disordered_trace` which contains a `DisorderedTrace` dataclass containing the `images` (`skeleton` `smoothed_mask`) and
other things that were previously in dictionaries.
- Needed to have configuration options for more sections available so added a bunch of fixtures that split these out of the `topostats/default_config.yaml`
I messed up correcting a merge conflict when rebasing so am putting the required `log_topostats_version() back in and
will add this commit to `.git-blame-ignore-revs`
- Fixes `processing.run_filters()` and tests to use the TopoStats class.
- Adds revision to ignore commit that fixed a bodged rebase
- Some tpyos in docstrings of class definitions
- Tpyo in `TRACING_RESOURCES` for disordered tracing
- Implements a regression test for `processing.run_disordered_tracing()`.
- Checks results are attributes of `GrainCrop` for `minicircle_small`.
Moves closer towards using `TopoStats` class throughout the `processing` module.

- Passes `topostats_object: TopoStats` into the various `run_<stage>` functions.
- Switches all logging to use the attributes of this class.
- Introduces [pytest-profiling](https://pypi.org/project/pytest-profiling/) as a test dependency so we can profile
tests. Introduced because `nodestats` was taking a looooong time to run and its because of long calls to `networkx` that
are required to get edges/angles.
- Adds `catenane_topostats` and `minicircle_small_topostats` fixtures used in `test_run_nodestats()`.
- Tests `run_nodestats`, another step in the right direction of modularising and adding entry points. Note that the
`catenane` image has 41 nodes which is one of the reason tests take so long!
- Corrects asssertions in `test_run_grains()` to be madea against `topostats_object` attributes rather than pulling out
and assigning to `imagegraincrops`.
- Rounds out the `Nodes` class with documentation and attributes.
- Switches to assessing whether disordered tracing worked by comparing the shape of the dataframe to `(0, 0)` which is
the shape of an empty dataframe. Previously this test was done against `if disordered_trace_grainstats is not None` but
as the following shows a `pd.DataFrame()` can't be used for truthiness as is normally the case in Python as an empty
dataframe is "something" so the test wasn't doing what was expected.

```
pd.DataFrame() is None
False
pd.DataFrame is not None
True
```

It is worth noting that there are some Warnings raised, these were noticed when testing for equality of Nodestats and
I've not got the time to investigate these fully, comments have been left in place so we can address in the future and
I'll make an issue for these too.
- introduces `ordered_trace` as an attribute to `GrainCrop` class.
- corrects test of equality for skeleton attribute of `GrainCrop`.
- introduce `OrderedTrace` class with attributes for...
  - `ordered_trace_data`
  - `n_molecules`
  - `tracing_stats`
  - `grain_mol_stats` - a dictionary of `Molecule`
  - `pixel_to_nm_sacling`
  - `images`
  - `error`
  - custom `__eq__` method that checks dictionary of images for equality
- introduce `Molecule` class with attributes
  - `circular`
  - `topology`
  - `ordered_coords`
  - `heights`
  - `distances`
- test for `processing.run_ordered_tracing()` along with two `.topostats` files in `tests/resources/tracing/ordered_tracing/{catenane,minicircle}_post_nodestats.`
- updates `save_topostats_file()` to work with `TopoStats` boject
- remove errant `print()` from `TopoStats` class
- Switches `save_topostats_file` to work with classes
Required because loading `.topostats` objects from HDF5 AFMReader returns dictionaries. This is ok and I think for now
we should not change this as it makes AFMReader very general and of use to others, but internally when we are switching
to `TopoStats` classes for all the processing each entry point that loads a `.topostats` file requires a `TopoStats`
object so we _have_ to convert these on loading.
- `padding` should be `int()` but was being read as `np.float64()`
- mistakenly always tried to set `crop["skeleton"]` even if its not present (in which case it should be `None`).
Add `_to_dict()` methods to each of the following classes...

- `MatchedBranch`
- `Molecule`
- `Node`
- `OrderedTrace`

...and ensures these are written to HDF5.

Adds dummy objects to `tests/contest.py` and tests the methods work via `tests/test_classes.py`.

Currently the types of many of these are _wrong_ because I don't know what they actually represent, that doesn't really
matter for the testing though which uses dictionary comprehension and handles any type.

Key is that the `GrainCrop.grain_crop_to_dict()` method now works with all of the additional attributes so we can write
the full `TopoStats` object to HDF5 which is required for on-going test development of the remaining `OrderedTrace`,
`Splining` and `Curvature` so we can write intermediary `.topostats` objects which we can load for tests (instead of
running the whole processing pipeline from the start).

This is however also **vital** to the additional entry-points (aka "swiss-army knife") work so we can write `.topostats`
objects with all of the data upto a given point and load it in the future (previous commit e731084 added the
necessary `dict_to_topostats()` function for converting the HDF5-based dictionaries to `TopoStats` objects).
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Successes...

- Don't attempt to order traces that do not have a disordered trace
- `OrderedTrace` class with attributes and methods
- `MatchedBranch` class

Very messy at the moment, some thoughts...

- noticing a number of places where vectorisation could be used instead of loops and some nesting that seems redundant.
- Dictionaries aren't currently mapped to the classes and their structure, many attributes are themselves dictionaries.
- 2025-10-09 - Currently need to get ordered_branches passing around correctly, they are meant to be attributes of
`MatchedBranch`.
- `tests/resources/tracing/ordered_tracing/catenane_post_nodestats.topostats` is currently 304.4MB which is too big,
- need to do something about this. It has been renamed for now to `catenane_post_nodestats_20251013.topostats` because
  of a conflict when rebasing.
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Closes #1220 (and possibly others but I can't find them at the moment!)

TopoStats modular design, which is being improved in current refactoring, means that it should be easy to extend the
analysis pipelines by developing other packages such as [AFMSlicer](https://github.com/AFM-SPM/AFMSlicer) where work is
under way.

One of the things that will be important is to allow developers of such packages, and in turn users, to generate sample
configuration files which they can change as they desire.

Rather than have the same code duplicated across packages we can use the `io.write_config_with_comments()` function from
TopoStats to load a `<pkg_name>/default_config.yaml` from a package and write that to disk which is what this Pull
Request achieves.

I've included an early version of `docs/advanced/extending.md` to document how to develop extension packages, it _will_
change dramatically as this takes shape as this is new territory for me, but felt it important to document what I'm
doing now so that I can expand and improve on it as things change and lesson are learnt.

**NB** This branch will deliberately target `ns-rse/1102-switching-to-TopoStats-class` as that will be the basis on
which other packages are built.
Successes...

- Don't attempt to order traces that do not have a disordered trace
- `OrderedTrace` class with attributes and methods
- `MatchedBranch` class

Very messy at the moment, some thoughts...

- noticing a number of places where vectorisation could be used instead of loops and some nesting that seems
  redundant. This won't be addressed in this PR but should be addressed in the future
- Dictionaries aren't currently mapped to the classes and their structure, many attributes are themselves dictionaries.
- 2025-10-09 - Currently need to get ordered_branches passing around correctly, they are meant to be attributes of
  `MatchedBranch`.
- `tests/resources/tracing/ordered_tracing/catenane_post_nodestats.topostats` is currently 304.4MB which is too big,
- need to do something about this. It has been renamed for now to `catenane_post_nodestats_20251013.topostats` because
  of a conflict when rebasing. Working on making it so we can pickle objects (have added `__getstate__` and
  `__setstate__` to all classes see next commit)
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- adds `thresholds` and `threshold_method` properties to `GrainCrop` class
- adds `config` and `full_mask_tensor` properties to `TopoStats` class
- updates tests in light of these changes
- correct minor tpyo in `default_config.yaml`

The main things that this adds though is `__getstate__`/`__setstate__` methods for each of the classes. The reason for
doing so is because classes that have `@property` objects associated with them can't be pickled and so they need
explicit conversion to dictionaries.

See...

- [here](https://stackoverflow.com/a/1939384/1444043)
- [Handling stateful objects](https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html#pickle-state)

Unfortunately this still fails...

```
from pathlib import Path
import pickle as pkl
from topostats.classes import TopoStats

OUTDIR = Path.cwd()
OUTFILE = OUTDIR / "empty.topostats"
empty_topostats = TopoStats(img_path = None)
with OUTFILE.open(mode="wb") as f:
    pkl.dump(empty_topostats, f)
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[905], line 2
      1 with OUTFILE.open(mode="wb") as f:
----> 2     pkl.dump(empty_topostats, f)

TypeError: cannot pickle 'property' object

empty_topostats.__getstate__()
{'_image_grain_crops': <property at 0x7fb40c81e0c0>,
 '_filename': <property at 0x7fb40c81d170>,
 '_pixel_to_nm_scaling': <property at 0x7fb40c81f880>,
 '_img_path': PosixPath('/home/neil/work/git/hub/AFM-SPM/TopoStats/tmp'),
 '_image': <property at 0x7fb39ce731a0>,
 '_image_original': <property at 0x7fb39ce71e40>,
 '_full_mask_tensor': <property at 0x7fb39ce72980>,
 '_topostats_version': <property at 0x7fb39ce71d00>,
 '_config': <property at 0x7fb39ce72020>}
```

Everything is _still_ a `property`.

This dummy example works fine though...

```
@DataClass
class dummy():
    var1: int | None = None
    var2: float | None = None
    var3: str | None = None
    var4: list[int] | None = None
    var5: dict[str, str] | None = None

    def __getstate__(self):
        # return {"_var1": self._var1,
        #         "_var2": self._var2,
        #         "_var3": self._var3,
        #         "_var4": self._var4,
        #         "_var5": self._var5,}
        state = self.__dict__.copy()
        return state

    def __setstate__(self, state):
        # self._var1 = state["_var1"]
        # self._var2 = state["_var2"]
        # self._var3 = state["_var3"]
        # self._var4 = state["_var4"]
        # self._var5 = state["_var5"]
        self.__dict__.update(state)

    @Property
    def var1(self) -> int:
        """
        Getter for the ``var1`` attribute.

        Returns
        -------
        int
            Returns the value of ``var1``.
        """
        return self._var1

    @var1.setter
    def var1(self, value: int) -> None:
        """
        Setter for the ``var1`` attribute.

        Parameters
        ----------
        value : int
            Value to set for ``var1``.
        """
        self._var1 = value

    @Property
    def var2(self) -> float:
        """
        Getter for the ``var2`` attribute.

        Returns
        -------
        float
            Returns the value of ``var2``.
        """
        return self._var2

    @var2.setter
    def var2(self, value: float) -> None:
        """
        Setter for the ``var2`` attribute.

        Parameters
        ----------
        value : float
            Value to set for ``var2``.
        """
        self._var2 = value

    @Property
    def var3(self) -> str:
        """
        Getter for the ``var3`` attribute.

        Returns
        -------
        str
            Returns the value of ``var3``.
        """
        return self._var3

    @var3.setter
    def var3(self, value: str) -> None:
        """
        Setter for the ``var3`` attribute.

        Parameters
        ----------
        value : str
            Value to set for ``var3``.
        """
        self._var3 = value

    @Property
    def var4(self) -> list[int]:
        """
        Getter for the ``var4`` attribute.

        Returns
        -------
        list[int]
            Returns the value of ``var4``.
        """
        return self._var4

    @var4.setter
    def var4(self, value: list[int]) -> None:
        """
        Setter for the ``var4`` attribute.

        Parameters
        ----------
        value : list[int]
            Value to set for ``var4``.
        """
        self._var4 = value

    @Property
    def var5(self) -> dict[str,str]:
        """
        Getter for the ``var5`` attribute.

        Returns
        -------
        dict[str,str]
            Returns the value of ``var5``.
        """
        return self._var5

    @var5.setter
    def var5(self, value: dict[str,str]) -> None:
        """
        Setter for the ``var5`` attribute.

        Parameters
        ----------
        value : dict[str,str]
            Value to set for ``var5``.
        """
        self._var5 = value

OUTFILE = OUTDIR / "empty.dummy"
empty_dummy = dummy()
with OUTFILE.open(mode="wb") as f:
    pkl.dump(empty_dummy, f)
```

...no error and I don't understand where I/we have gone wrong?!?!?!?!

I'm somewhat inclined to move away from `@dataclass` and using `@property` to provide the `setter` / `getter` design
pattern and instead use plain classes with attributes.
feature: write YAML configuration files from other packages
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