code: def concatenate_images(ic):
      """Concatenate all images in the image collection into an array.
  
      Parameters
      ----------
      ic : an iterable of images
          The images to be concatenated.
  
      Returns
      -------
      array_cat : ndarray
          An array having one more dimension than the images in `ic`.
  
      See Also
      --------
      ImageCollection.concatenate
      MultiImage.concatenate
  
      Raises
      ------
      ValueError
          If images in `ic` don't have identical shapes.
  
      Notes
      -----
      ``concatenate_images`` receives any iterable object containing images,
      including ImageCollection and MultiImage, and returns a NumPy array.
      """
      all_images = [image[np.newaxis, ...] for image in ic]
      try:
          array_cat = np.concatenate(all_images)
      except ValueError:
          raise ValueError("Image dimensions must agree.")
      return array_cat
  
imports: import os
  from glob import glob
  import re
  from collections.abc import Sequence
  from copy import copy
  import numpy
  from PIL import Image
  from tifffile import TiffFile
label_desc: Use image node_id 1 for calling a global function with example usage: concatenate_images(ic) and returns: array_cat