Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
WSIReader currently supports cuCIM and OpenSlide, which can read patches from very large whole slide images without loading the entire image into memory. However, tifffile is another popular library to load TIFF files (which the most common format for whole slide imaging). Although it does not support extraction without loading the whole image, there are use cases that loading the whole slide image is desirable and tifffile can do it faster than cuCIM and OpenSlide.Thus supporting tifffile in WSIReader would be helpful.
Related issue: #3161
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
WSIReader currently supports
cuCIMandOpenSlide, which can read patches from very large whole slide images without loading the entire image into memory. However,tifffileis another popular library to load TIFF files (which the most common format for whole slide imaging). Although it does not support extraction without loading the whole image, there are use cases that loading the whole slide image is desirable andtifffilecan do it faster thancuCIMandOpenSlide.Thus supportingtifffileinWSIReaderwould be helpful.Related issue: #3161