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Merge pull request #46 from HealthBioscienceIDEAS/aicsimageio-limits
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Add note on napari-aicsimageio file size limits
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K-Meech authored Feb 6, 2024
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in napari-aicsimageio. The plugin is still under development - so more formats
are likely to be supported in future!

Napari-aicsimageio also has [limits on the size of images
](https://github.com/AllenCellModeling/napari-aicsimageio?tab=readme-ov-file#reading-mode-threshold)
it will load directly into memory. Only images with a filesize less than 4GB and
less than 30% of available memory will be loaded directly. Otherwise, images are
loaded as smaller chunks as required.

If you have difficulty opening a specific file format with napari-aicsimageio,
it's worth trying to open it in [Fiji](https://imagej.net/software/fiji/) also.
Fiji has very well established integration with Bio-Formats, and so tends to
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