This reader can be used starting from Bio-Formats version 7.1.0 and above.
A revamped version of the original ZeissCZIReader which parses faster the metadata. This is critical to open multi-TB files in Fiji in a reasonable amount of time.
This new reader is tested against a list of publicly available CZI files. But since version 0.3, the modulo part is not implemented in this reader (too much complexity, and very little gain)
For more information see:
- the original issue
- a draft PR on Bio-Formats
- go to the compare folder of this repository to see how this readers differs from the bio-formats reader for a set of publicly available czi files
To use this reader instead of the original one, you will need to activate the Fiji update site Zeiss Quick Start Reader and by enabling the Zeiss(CZI) Quick Start reader in the Bio-Formats plugins configuration.
Special thanks to Zeiss for opening its file format and allowing open source software to improve!