diff --git a/dlup/backends/tifffile_backend.py b/dlup/backends/tifffile_backend.py
index 3d38a9a9..5ff91c62 100644
--- a/dlup/backends/tifffile_backend.py
+++ b/dlup/backends/tifffile_backend.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # Copyright (c) dlup contributors
+# mypy: disable-error-code="union-attr"
 from typing import Any
 
 import numpy as np
@@ -46,7 +47,6 @@ def __parse_tifffile(self) -> None:
         for idx, page in enumerate(self._image.pages):
             self._shapes.append((page.shape[1], page.shape[0]))
 
-            # TODO: The order of the x and y tag need to be verified
             x_res = page.tags["XResolution"].value
             x_res = x_res[0] / x_res[1]
             y_res = page.tags["YResolution"].value
diff --git a/examples/annotations_to_mask.py b/examples/annotations_to_mask.py
index 06af112e..f47b2c56 100644
--- a/examples/annotations_to_mask.py
+++ b/examples/annotations_to_mask.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Copyright (c) dlup contributors
-# pylint: disable=no-member
+# mypy: disable-error-code="attr-defined"
 """This code provides an example of how to convert annotations to a mask."""
 from pathlib import Path
 
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 def convert_annotations_to_mask() -> None:
     scaling = 0.02
     annotations = SlideAnnotations.from_dlup_xml(Path(__file__).parent / "files" / "dlup_annotation_test.xml")
-
     bbox = annotations.bounding_box_at_scaling(scaling)
 
     region = annotations.read_region((0, 0), scaling, bbox[1])
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b20e483e..14f85aad 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ classifiers = [
 dependencies = [
     "numpy==1.26.4",
     "tifftools>=1.5.2",
-    "tifffile>=2024.7.2",
+    "tifffile>=2024.9.20",
     "pyvips>=2.2.3",
     "tqdm>=2.66.4",
     "pillow>=10.3.0",