[FIXED] How to read in selective files (images) from a folder, where the search criteria is in a PandaFrame frame?

Issue

from PIL import Image 
import glob
import pandas as pd

This is the CSV file that I read in and filtered out...

Metadata = pd.read_csv('ISIC_2019_Training_GroundTruth.csv')

MelanomaData = Metadata.filter(["Images" ,"MEL"])
MelanomaData = MelanomaData[MelanomaData.MEL == 1]

The search criteria in the image column, the image ID is what I want to read in a folder (the folder has different images in there which I don't want to read in). The images are .jpg

I coded this to read in the images

image_list = []
for filename in (glob.glob('/Users/user/Documents/Final Year Proj/DATA/ISIC_2019_Training_Input/*.jpg')): 
    im=Image.open(filename)
    image_list.append(im)
    print(filename)

Solution

You are almost there, you can simply extract the list of images from you dataframe and read them with your function:

image_name_list = MelanomaData['Images'].tolist()
path_string = '/Users/user/Documents/Final Year Proj/DATA/ISIC_2019_Training_Input/'
for image_name in image_name_list:
    im = Image.open(path_string + image_name + '.jpg')
    image_list.append(im)

Answered By - LeoE