code: def png16read(self: Path):
      return array(Image.open(self), dtype=np.uint16)
  
imports: from __future__ import annotations
  from ..basics import *
  from ..vision.all import *
  from ..data.transforms import *
  import pydicom, kornia, skimage
  from pydicom.dataset import Dataset
  from pydicom.tag import BaseTag
  from pydicom.multival import MultiValue
  from PIL import Image
label_desc: Use image node_id 3 for calling a global function with example usage: png16read() and returns: array