ensure that the bitsPerPixel field is always set to match the final pixel type, and populate any channel colors that were parsed in the metadata.Zeiss AxioVision ZVI (Zeiss Vision Image).When tiles from a large uncompressed image with no internal tiling are requested, only the specific tile specified in the call to openBytes is read from disk, instead of the entire image being read and then copied improved performance of large uncompressed images.ensure open resources are closed under all possible scenarios.previously missing Image-Instrument reference has been added to OME-XML.Additional refactoring of the reader for general maintainability metadata fixes specifically the naming of plates.For example: bfconvert -option panion inputFile.tiff This can be used via the bfconvert command line tool by setting the value of option ‘panion’ to the name of the companion file to use. added an option to save an OME-TIFF dataset as a binary TIFF and companion XML.For ImageJ users this option can be accessed via a checkbox in the Nikon ND2 section of the Bio-Formats configuration dialog ‘Plugins –> Bio-Formats –> Bio-Formats Plugins Configuration’ (thanks to Christian Sachs) Processing of the chunkmap can be disabled via the MetadataOptions API using the boolean option ‘nativend2.chunkmap’.

performance improvements based on reading chunkmap.correctly read the physical size X and Y values based on the available specification.plane position values for values X, Y and Z are now being set in OME-XML.added support for DICOMDIR files, which allow multiple DICOM files in a single directory to be opened as a single dataset.Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.4.0 which includes the following changes:

Dicomdir file extension