lazystack
A napari plugin wrapping lazystack: a lightweight, cross-platform, unified interface for lazily reading scientific image stacks.
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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Operating system:
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Requirements:
- lazystack>=0.7.3
- napari[all]>=0.9.2
- numpy
- napari[all]; extra == "all"

