Thanks for the reply.  I suspect our best bet is to ask our colleagues to 
provide smaller images.  Bio-Formats under ImageJ seems to work just fine - 
except that the dimensions are too large for ImageJ.

You don't mention it - but I'll add it here for completeness: QuPath can open 
and display the files, but only shows ONE image from each stack in the file.

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> On Mar 21, 2026, at 15:43, Fred Damen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I google(d) 'imagemagick .czi file' and came up with a few libraries/tools
> for reading/converting .czi files. Most in/with Python, so you could roll
> your own import plugin.
> 
> R Package (readCzi): Use the readCzi package to read and convert CZI files
> to TIFF, with options for projection and normalization.
> 
> ZEN Software: Use Zeiss ZEN software (including Lite) to export CZI files
> to more universal formats like TIFF.
> https://www.zeiss.com/microscopy/en/products/software/zeiss-zen/czi-image-file-format.html
> 
> Python: Use libraries such as aicspylibczi or aicsimageio to read CZI data
> and metadata, which can then be processed or saved using ImageIO or
> OpenCV.
> 
> Alternative Tooling: Use czi-tools (which may use vips or ImageMagick
> internally) to read specific regions or convert CZI files.
> 
> Enjoy,
> 
> Fred
> 
> On Sat, March 21, 2026 12:44 pm, Kenneth Sloan wrote:
>> QuPath *almost* works.
>> 
>> The .czi file includes several STACKS.  QuPath only opens ONE image from a
>> given stack.
>> 
>> Any clues?
>> 
>> (Running on Mac, using Intel version - as I read the blurbs, .czi is not
>> supported on the Apple Silicon version).
>> 
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>> Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
>> 
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