diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 826c4fc3..eebda6e4 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,12 +25,10 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 dependencies = [
     "dask[array,dataframe] >=2024.4.1",
-    "numpy >=1.11.3",
-    "scikit-image >=0.19.3",
-    "scipy >=0.19.1",
+    "numpy >=1.18",
+    "scipy >=1.7.0",
     "pandas >=2.0.0",
     "pims >=0.4.1",
-    "slicerator >= 1.1.0",
     "tifffile >=2018.10.18",
 ]