lazystack

A napari plugin wrapping lazystack: a lightweight, cross-platform, unified interface for lazily reading scientific image stacks.

  • Dominic Jurkschat

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A napari reader wrapping lazystack: a lightweight, cross-platform unified interface for lazily reading scientific image stacks.

Supported formats

  • HDF (via h5py) — datasets must be (num_images, height, width) grayscale images.
  • TIFF and other TIFF-family files (via tifffile) — grayscale stacks only; colour/multichannel images and hyperstacks are not supported.
  • Hamamatsu DCIMG (.dcimg).
  • Hamamatsu HIS (.his).

This napari plugin was generated with copier using the napari-plugin-template.

Installation

You can install napari-lazystack via pip:

pip install napari-lazystack

If napari is not already installed, you can install napari-lazystack with napari and Qt via:

pip install "napari-lazystack[all]"

To install latest development version:

pip install git+https://github.com/domjurkschat/napari-lazystack.git

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome. Tests can be run with tox, please ensure the coverage at least stays the same before you submit a pull request.

License

Distributed under the terms of the BSD-3 license, "napari-lazystack" is free and open source software

Issues

If you encounter any problems, please file an issue along with a detailed description.

Version:

  • 0.1.1

Last updated:

  • 2026-10-22

First released:

  • 2026-10-22

License:

  • BSD-3-Clause

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Requirements:

  • lazystack>=0.7.3
  • napari[all]>=0.9.2
  • numpy
  • napari[all]; extra == "all"
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