diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 7c4a51c..b94041a 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ Suggests:
 Config/testthat/edition: 3
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
 Imports:
+    BiocBaseUtils,
     BiocGenerics,
     dplyr,
     DropletUtils,
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 7960efa..78d930c 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ export(prep_fiji_coords)
 export(prep_fiji_image)
 export(rescale_fiji_inputs)
 import(DropletUtils)
-import(Seurat)
 import(SpatialExperiment)
 import(dplyr)
 import(spatialLIBD)
diff --git a/R/as.Seurat.R b/R/as.Seurat.R
index ce81a88..84b94be 100644
--- a/R/as.Seurat.R
+++ b/R/as.Seurat.R
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #'
 #' @export
 #' @author Nicholas J. Eagles
-#' @import SpatialExperiment spatialLIBD Seurat
+#' @import SpatialExperiment spatialLIBD
 #' @importFrom SummarizedExperiment colData
 #' @importFrom grDevices col2rgb
 #' @importFrom methods new