How to load 16bit TIFF image in Scilab?

[Antoine Monmayrant]

Hi everyone,

I try to load 16bit grayscale TIFF image into Scilab.
I tried to use SIVP as it handles TIFF images.
However, it does not import 16bit TIFF correctly.
It seems to me that it interprets the 16bit image as an 8 bit one, which 
results in a great loss of information.
Does anyone have some experience with handling 16bits images in Scilab?
Alternatively, do you know some tool I could use to convert my 16bit 
image in a csv or any other format that Scilab can import?

Thank you in advance,

Antoine