No need to lookup paths for images without a dot.
if there is no suffix, the image reader in Qt cycles thru all of the possible values that it might be able to load to see if such a thing exists relative to current workdir. If one has configured an annotation with path from a image, it is very unlikely that such a image does not have a suffix.
While this is not a problem for most users, on certain so-called enterprise systems with encrypted file systems and virus scanners and so on, it makes a slight difference.