First of all, many thanks for this extremely useful tool - it's been a game-changer for me when working with multi-gigabyte tiff files in MATLAB. I was wondering if you'd consider adding functions to slice and concatenate images without loading the entire file. As a trivial example, suppose I have a TIFFStack object with size [600, 1200, 500] and I want to pass just half of it to another function. I would be tempted to do something like `smallTIFFStack = bigTIFFStack(:,1:600,:);` but this loads everything into memory, when what I want is a new TIFFStack object that just references the portion of the image I selected. It also would be nice to be able to concatenate two TIFFStack objects, for cases when my image acquisition software has split a very long timeseries into multiple files: `>> size(bigTIFFStack1) ans = 600 1200 4000 >> size(bigTIFFStack2) ans = 600 1200 3745 >> evenBiggerTIFFStack = cat(3, bigTIFFStack1, bigTIFFStack2; >> size(evenBiggerTIFFStack) ans = 600 1200 7745` If you don't have time to do this, I'd be willing to work on the coding, but I'd need some help figuring out where to start. I am proficient with MATLAB but don't really know anything about how it deals with memory-mapped files.
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