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Schmidt C, Boissonnet T, Dohle J, Bernhardt K, Ferrando-May E, Wernet T, Nitschke R, Kunis S, Weidtkamp-Peters S. A practical guide to bioimaging research data management in core facilities. J Microsc 2024; 294:350-371. [PMID: 38752662 DOI: 10.1111/jmi.13317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2024] [Revised: 04/29/2024] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 05/21/2024]
Abstract
Bioimage data are generated in diverse research fields throughout the life and biomedical sciences. Its potential for advancing scientific progress via modern, data-driven discovery approaches reaches beyond disciplinary borders. To fully exploit this potential, it is necessary to make bioimaging data, in general, multidimensional microscopy images and image series, FAIR, that is, findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. These FAIR principles for research data management are now widely accepted in the scientific community and have been adopted by funding agencies, policymakers and publishers. To remain competitive and at the forefront of research, implementing the FAIR principles into daily routines is an essential but challenging task for researchers and research infrastructures. Imaging core facilities, well-established providers of access to imaging equipment and expertise, are in an excellent position to lead this transformation in bioimaging research data management. They are positioned at the intersection of research groups, IT infrastructure providers, the institution´s administration, and microscope vendors. In the frame of German BioImaging - Society for Microscopy and Image Analysis (GerBI-GMB), cross-institutional working groups and third-party funded projects were initiated in recent years to advance the bioimaging community's capability and capacity for FAIR bioimage data management. Here, we provide an imaging-core-facility-centric perspective outlining the experience and current strategies in Germany to facilitate the practical adoption of the FAIR principles closely aligned with the international bioimaging community. We highlight which tools and services are ready to be implemented and what the future directions for FAIR bioimage data have to offer.
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- Christian Schmidt
- Enabling Technology Department, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Center for Advanced Imaging, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Center of Cellular Nanoanalytics, Integrated Bioimaging Facility iBiOs, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
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- Center of Cellular Nanoanalytics, Integrated Bioimaging Facility iBiOs, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
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- Enabling Technology Department, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Life Imaging Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Life Imaging Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- CIBSS and BIOSS - Centres for Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Center of Cellular Nanoanalytics, Integrated Bioimaging Facility iBiOs, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
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Bialy N, Alber F, Andrews B, Angelo M, Beliveau B, Bintu L, Boettiger A, Boehm U, Brown CM, Maina MB, Chambers JJ, Cimini BA, Eliceiri K, Errington R, Faklaris O, Gaudreault N, Germain RN, Goscinski W, Grunwald D, Halter M, Hanein D, Hickey JW, Lacoste J, Laude A, Lundberg E, Ma J, Malacrida L, Moore J, Nelson G, Neumann EK, Nitschke R, Onami S, Pimentel JA, Plant AL, Radtke AJ, Sabata B, Schapiro D, Schöneberg J, Spraggins JM, Sudar D, Adrien Maria Vierdag WM, Volkmann N, Wählby C, Wang SS, Yaniv Z, Strambio-De-Castillia C. Harmonizing the Generation and Pre-publication Stewardship of FAIR Image data. ARXIV 2024:arXiv:2401.13022v4. [PMID: 38351940 PMCID: PMC10862930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2024]
Abstract
Together with the molecular knowledge of genes and proteins, biological images promise to significantly enhance the scientific understanding of complex cellular systems and to advance predictive and personalized therapeutic products for human health. For this potential to be realized, quality-assured image data must be shared among labs at a global scale to be compared, pooled, and reanalyzed, thus unleashing untold potential beyond the original purpose for which the data was generated. There are two broad sets of requirements to enable image data sharing in the life sciences. One set of requirements is articulated in the companion White Paper entitled "Enabling Global Image Data Sharing in the Life Sciences," which is published in parallel and addresses the need to build the cyberinfrastructure for sharing the digital array data (arXiv:2401.13023 [q-bio.OT], https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.13023). In this White Paper, we detail a broad set of requirements, which involves collecting, managing, presenting, and propagating contextual information essential to assess the quality, understand the content, interpret the scientific implications, and reuse image data in the context of the experimental details. We start by providing an overview of the main lessons learned to date through international community activities, which have recently made considerable progress toward generating community standard practices for imaging Quality Control (QC) and metadata. We then provide a clear set of recommendations for amplifying this work. The driving goal is to address remaining challenges, and democratize access to common practices and tools for a spectrum of biomedical researchers, regardless of their expertise, access to resources, and geographical location.
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- Nikki Bialy
- Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Imaging Platform, Cambridge, USA
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- Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, USA
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA
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- Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
- SciLifeLab, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
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- Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, & Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- German BioImaging-Gesellschaft für Mikroskopie und Bildanalyse e.V., Constance, Germany
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- Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
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- Quantitative Imaging Systems LLC, Portland, USA
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
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Kemmer I, Keppler A, Serrano-Solano B, Rybina A, Özdemir B, Bischof J, El Ghadraoui A, Eriksson JE, Mathur A. Building a FAIR image data ecosystem for microscopy communities. Histochem Cell Biol 2023; 160:199-209. [PMID: 37341795 PMCID: PMC10492678 DOI: 10.1007/s00418-023-02203-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/27/2023] [Indexed: 06/22/2023]
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Bioimaging has now entered the era of big data with faster-than-ever development of complex microscopy technologies leading to increasingly complex datasets. This enormous increase in data size and informational complexity within those datasets has brought with it several difficulties in terms of common and harmonized data handling, analysis, and management practices, which are currently hampering the full potential of image data being realized. Here, we outline a wide range of efforts and solutions currently being developed by the microscopy community to address these challenges on the path towards FAIR bioimaging data. We also highlight how different actors in the microscopy ecosystem are working together, creating synergies that develop new approaches, and how research infrastructures, such as Euro-BioImaging, are fostering these interactions to shape the field.
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- Isabel Kemmer
- Euro-BioImaging ERIC Bio-Hub, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Euro-BioImaging ERIC Bio-Hub, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Euro-BioImaging ERIC Bio-Hub, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Euro-BioImaging ERIC Bio-Hub, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Euro-BioImaging ERIC Bio-Hub, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Euro-BioImaging ERIC Bio-Hub, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Euro-BioImaging ERIC Bio-Hub, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Euro-BioImaging ERIC Statutory Seat, Tykistökatu 6, P.O. Box 123, 20521, Turku, Finland
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- Euro-BioImaging ERIC Bio-Hub, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Jackson KC, Pachter L. A standard for sharing spatial transcriptomics data. CELL GENOMICS 2023; 3:100374. [PMID: 37601972 PMCID: PMC10435375 DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/22/2023]
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Spatial transcriptomic technologies have the potential to reveal critical relationships between the function of genes and cells and their spatial organization. Here, we provide a sharing model for spatial transcriptomics data with the aim of establishing a set of primary data and metadata needed to reproduce analyses and facilitate computational methods development.
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- Kayla C. Jackson
- Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
- Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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Weisbart E, Cimini BA. Distributed-Something: scripts to leverage AWS storage and computing for distributed workflows at scale. Nat Methods 2023; 20:1120-1121. [PMID: 37277559 PMCID: PMC10594640 DOI: 10.1038/s41592-023-01918-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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- Erin Weisbart
- Imaging Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Imaging Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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In 2018, PLOS Biology announced CellProfiler 3.0, which has become one of the most used pieces of image analysis software in biology. The rapid adoption of this software speaks to the importance of user experience to disseminate new methods of bioimage informatics.
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- Perrine Paul-Gilloteaux
- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, Inserm, BioCore, US16, SFR Bonamy, Nantes, France
- Nantes Université, CNRS, Inserm, l'Institut du Thorax, Nantes, France
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Lin JR, Chen YA, Campton D, Cooper J, Coy S, Yapp C, Tefft JB, McCarty E, Ligon KL, Rodig SJ, Reese S, George T, Santagata S, Sorger PK. High-plex immunofluorescence imaging and traditional histology of the same tissue section for discovering image-based biomarkers. NATURE CANCER 2023; 4:1036-1052. [PMID: 37349501 PMCID: PMC10368530 DOI: 10.1038/s43018-023-00576-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2022] [Accepted: 05/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/24/2023]
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Precision medicine is critically dependent on better methods for diagnosing and staging disease and predicting drug response. Histopathology using hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained tissue (not genomics) remains the primary diagnostic method in cancer. Recently developed highly multiplexed tissue imaging methods promise to enhance research studies and clinical practice with precise, spatially resolved single-cell data. Here, we describe the 'Orion' platform for collecting H&E and high-plex immunofluorescence images from the same cells in a whole-slide format suitable for diagnosis. Using a retrospective cohort of 74 colorectal cancer resections, we show that immunofluorescence and H&E images provide human experts and machine learning algorithms with complementary information that can be used to generate interpretable, multiplexed image-based models predictive of progression-free survival. Combining models of immune infiltration and tumor-intrinsic features achieves a 10- to 20-fold discrimination between rapid and slow (or no) progression, demonstrating the ability of multimodal tissue imaging to generate high-performance biomarkers.
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- Jia-Ren Lin
- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Ludwig Center at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Ludwig Center at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Ludwig Center at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Ludwig Center at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Ludwig Center at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Ludwig Center at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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Gorman C, Punzo D, Octaviano I, Pieper S, Longabaugh WJR, Clunie DA, Kikinis R, Fedorov AY, Herrmann MD. Interoperable slide microscopy viewer and annotation tool for imaging data science and computational pathology. Nat Commun 2023; 14:1572. [PMID: 36949078 PMCID: PMC10033920 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37224-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2022] [Accepted: 03/08/2023] [Indexed: 03/24/2023] Open
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The exchange of large and complex slide microscopy imaging data in biomedical research and pathology practice is impeded by a lack of data standardization and interoperability, which is detrimental to the reproducibility of scientific findings and clinical integration of technological innovations. We introduce Slim, an open-source, web-based slide microscopy viewer that implements the internationally accepted Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard to achieve interoperability with a multitude of existing medical imaging systems. We showcase the capabilities of Slim as the slide microscopy viewer of the NCI Imaging Data Commons and demonstrate how the viewer enables interactive visualization of traditional brightfield microscopy and highly-multiplexed immunofluorescence microscopy images from The Cancer Genome Atlas and Human Tissue Atlas Network, respectively, using standard DICOMweb services. We further show how Slim enables the collection of standardized image annotations for the development or validation of machine learning models and the visual interpretation of model inference results in the form of segmentation masks, spatial heat maps, or image-derived measurements.
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- Chris Gorman
- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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Scheele CLGJ, Herrmann D, Yamashita E, Celso CL, Jenne CN, Oktay MH, Entenberg D, Friedl P, Weigert R, Meijboom FLB, Ishii M, Timpson P, van Rheenen J. Multiphoton intravital microscopy of rodents. NATURE REVIEWS. METHODS PRIMERS 2022; 2:89. [PMID: 37621948 PMCID: PMC10449057 DOI: 10.1038/s43586-022-00168-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/12/2022] [Indexed: 08/26/2023]
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Tissues are heterogeneous with respect to cellular and non-cellular components and in the dynamic interactions between these elements. To study the behaviour and fate of individual cells in these complex tissues, intravital microscopy (IVM) techniques such as multiphoton microscopy have been developed to visualize intact and live tissues at cellular and subcellular resolution. IVM experiments have revealed unique insights into the dynamic interplay between different cell types and their local environment, and how this drives morphogenesis and homeostasis of tissues, inflammation and immune responses, and the development of various diseases. This Primer introduces researchers to IVM technologies, with a focus on multiphoton microscopy of rodents, and discusses challenges, solutions and practical tips on how to perform IVM. To illustrate the unique potential of IVM, several examples of results are highlighted. Finally, we discuss data reproducibility and how to handle big imaging data sets.
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- Colinda L. G. J. Scheele
- Laboratory for Intravital Imaging and Dynamics of Tumor Progression, VIB Center for Cancer Biology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Department of Oncology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Cancer Ecosystems Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research and The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Cancer Department, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- St. Vincent’s Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Immunology and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine and Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- WPI-Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- Laboratory of Bioimaging and Drug Discovery, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences and Centre for Hematology, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Sir Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
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- Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
- Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
- Integrated Imaging Program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
- Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
- Integrated Imaging Program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- David H. Koch Center for Applied Genitourinary Cancers, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Sustainable Animal Stewardship, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Faculty of Humanities, Ethics Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Immunology and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine and Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- WPI-Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- Laboratory of Bioimaging and Drug Discovery, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Osaka, Japan
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- Cancer Ecosystems Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research and The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Cancer Department, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- St. Vincent’s Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Division of Molecular Pathology, Oncode Institute, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Narrative online guides for the interpretation of digital-pathology images and tissue-atlas data. Nat Biomed Eng 2022; 6:515-526. [PMID: 34750536 PMCID: PMC9079188 DOI: 10.1038/s41551-021-00789-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2020] [Accepted: 06/02/2021] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Multiplexed tissue imaging facilitates the diagnosis and understanding of complex disease traits. However, the analysis of such digital images heavily relies on the experience of anatomical pathologists for the review, annotation and description of tissue features. In addition, the wider use of data from tissue atlases in basic and translational research and in classrooms would benefit from software that facilitates the easy visualization and sharing of the images and the results of their analyses. In this Perspective, we describe the ecosystem of software available for the analysis of tissue images and discuss the need for interactive online guides that help histopathologists make complex images comprehensible to non-specialists. We illustrate this idea via a software interface (Minerva), accessible via web browsers, that integrates multi-omic and tissue-atlas features. We argue that such interactive narrative guides can effectively disseminate digital histology data and aid their interpretation.
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Petabyte-Scale Multi-Morphometry of Single Neurons for Whole Brains. Neuroinformatics 2022; 20:525-536. [PMID: 35182359 DOI: 10.1007/s12021-022-09569-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/21/2022] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Recent advances in brain imaging allow producing large amounts of 3-D volumetric data from which morphometry data is reconstructed and measured. Fine detailed structural morphometry of individual neurons, including somata, dendrites, axons, and synaptic connectivity based on digitally reconstructed neurons, is essential for cataloging neuron types and their connectivity. To produce quality morphometry at large scale, it is highly desirable but extremely challenging to efficiently handle petabyte-scale high-resolution whole brain imaging database. Here, we developed a multi-level method to produce high quality somatic, dendritic, axonal, and potential synaptic morphometry, which was made possible by utilizing necessary petabyte hardware and software platform to optimize both the data and workflow management. Our method also boosts data sharing and remote collaborative validation. We highlight a petabyte application dataset involving 62 whole mouse brains, from which we identified 50,233 somata of individual neurons, profiled the dendrites of 11,322 neurons, reconstructed the full 3-D morphology of 1,050 neurons including their dendrites and full axons, and detected 1.9 million putative synaptic sites derived from axonal boutons. Analysis and simulation of these data indicate the promise of this approach for modern large-scale morphology applications.
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Schapiro D, Yapp C, Sokolov A, Reynolds SM, Chen YA, Sudar D, Xie Y, Muhlich J, Arias-Camison R, Arena S, Taylor AJ, Nikolov M, Tyler M, Lin JR, Burlingame EA, Chang YH, Farhi SL, Thorsson V, Venkatamohan N, Drewes JL, Pe'er D, Gutman DA, Herrmann MD, Gehlenborg N, Bankhead P, Roland JT, Herndon JM, Snyder MP, Angelo M, Nolan G, Swedlow JR, Schultz N, Merrick DT, Mazzili SA, Cerami E, Rodig SJ, Santagata S, Sorger PK. MITI minimum information guidelines for highly multiplexed tissue images. Nat Methods 2022; 19:262-267. [PMID: 35277708 PMCID: PMC9009186 DOI: 10.1038/s41592-022-01415-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The imminent release of tissue atlases combining multi-channel microscopy with single cell sequencing and other omics data from normal and diseased specimens creates an urgent need for data and metadata standards that guide data deposition, curation and release. We describe a Minimum Information about highly multiplexed Tissue Imaging (MITI) standard that applies best practices developed for genomics and other microscopy data to highly multiplexed tissue images and traditional histology.
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- Denis Schapiro
- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Ludwig Center for Cancer Research at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital and Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
- Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Ludwig Center for Cancer Research at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Image and Data Analysis Core, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Ludwig Center for Cancer Research at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Ludwig Center for Cancer Research at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Quantitative Imaging Systems LLC, Portland, OR, USA
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- Program in Computational and Systems Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Ludwig Center for Cancer Research at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Ludwig Center for Cancer Research at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Ludwig Center for Cancer Research at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Ludwig Center for Cancer Research at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Ludwig Center for Cancer Research at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
- Indica Labs, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Program in Computational and Systems Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Edinburgh Pathology, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Computational Biology and Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Ludwig Center for Cancer Research at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Ludwig Center for Cancer Research at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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Kunis S, Hänsch S, Schmidt C, Wong F, Strambio-De-Castillia C, Weidtkamp-Peters S. MDEmic: a metadata annotation tool to facilitate management of FAIR image data in the bioimaging community. Nat Methods 2021; 18:1416-1417. [PMID: 34635849 PMCID: PMC9514507 DOI: 10.1038/s41592-021-01288-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Susanne Kunis
- Department of Biology/Chemistry, Centre for Cellular Nanoanalytics, University Osnabrueck, Osnabrueck, Germany.
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- Centre for Advanced Imaging, University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany
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- Bioimaging Centre, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Division of Computational Biology, Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
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Hammer M, Huisman M, Rigano A, Boehm U, Chambers JJ, Gaudreault N, North AJ, Pimentel JA, Sudar D, Bajcsy P, Brown CM, Corbett AD, Faklaris O, Lacoste J, Laude A, Nelson G, Nitschke R, Farzam F, Smith CS, Grunwald D, Strambio-De-Castillia C. Towards community-driven metadata standards for light microscopy: tiered specifications extending the OME model. Nat Methods 2021; 18:1427-1440. [PMID: 34862501 PMCID: PMC9271325 DOI: 10.1038/s41592-021-01327-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Rigorous record-keeping and quality control are required to ensure the quality, reproducibility and value of imaging data. The 4DN Initiative and BINA here propose light Microscopy Metadata specifications that extend the OME data model, scale with experimental intent and complexity, and make it possible for scientists to create comprehensive records of imaging experiments.
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- Mathias Hammer
- RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
- Department of Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Program in Molecular Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA
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- Institute for Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Microscopía Avanzada, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
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- Quantitative Imaging Systems LLC, Portland, OR, USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
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- Advanced BioImaging Facility (ABIF), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- MRI, BCM, University of Montpellier, CNRS, INSERM, Montpellier, France
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- Bioimaging Unit, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Bioimaging Unit, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Life Imaging Center and Signalling Research Centres CIBSS and BIOSS, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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- Delft Center for Systems and Control and Department of Imaging Physics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
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- RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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Rigano A, Ehmsen S, Öztürk SU, Ryan J, Balashov A, Hammer M, Kirli K, Boehm U, Brown CM, Bellve K, Chambers JJ, Cosolo A, Coleman RA, Faklaris O, Fogarty KE, Guilbert T, Hamacher AB, Itano MS, Keeley DP, Kunis S, Lacoste J, Laude A, Ma WY, Marcello M, Montero-Llopis P, Nelson G, Nitschke R, Pimentel JA, Weidtkamp-Peters S, Park PJ, Alver BH, Grunwald D, Strambio-De-Castillia C. Micro-Meta App: an interactive tool for collecting microscopy metadata based on community specifications. Nat Methods 2021; 18:1489-1495. [PMID: 34862503 PMCID: PMC8648560 DOI: 10.1038/s41592-021-01315-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2021] [Accepted: 09/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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For quality, interpretation, reproducibility and sharing value, microscopy images should be accompanied by detailed descriptions of the conditions that were used to produce them. Micro-Meta App is an intuitive, highly interoperable, open-source software tool that was developed in the context of the 4D Nucleome (4DN) consortium and is designed to facilitate the extraction and collection of relevant microscopy metadata as specified by the recent 4DN-BINA-OME tiered-system of Microscopy Metadata specifications. In addition to substantially lowering the burden of quality assurance, the visual nature of Micro-Meta App makes it particularly suited for training purposes.
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- Alessandro Rigano
- Program in Molecular Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA USA
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- grid.38142.3c000000041936754XDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- grid.38142.3c000000041936754XDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- grid.14709.3b0000 0004 1936 8649Advanced BioImaging Facility (ABIF), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Canada
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- grid.38142.3c000000041936754XDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA USA
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- grid.38142.3c000000041936754XDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- grid.443970.dJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA USA
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- grid.14709.3b0000 0004 1936 8649Advanced BioImaging Facility (ABIF), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Canada
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- Program in Molecular Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA USA
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- grid.266683.f0000 0001 2166 5835Institute for Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA USA
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- grid.38142.3c000000041936754XDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- grid.251993.50000000121791997Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY USA
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- grid.121334.60000 0001 2097 0141BioCampus Montpellier (BCM), University of Montpellier, CNRS, INSERM, Montpellier, France
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- Program in Molecular Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA USA
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- grid.508487.60000 0004 7885 7602Institut Cochin, Inserm U1016-CNRS UMR8104-Université de Paris, Paris, France
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- grid.411327.20000 0001 2176 9917Center for Advanced Imaging, Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- grid.10698.360000000122483208UNC Neuroscience Microscopy Core Facility, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, and UNC Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC USA
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- grid.10698.360000000122483208UNC Neuroscience Microscopy Core Facility, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, and UNC Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC USA
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- grid.10854.380000 0001 0672 4366Department of Biology/Chemistry and Center for Cellular Nanoanalytics, University Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
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- grid.1006.70000 0001 0462 7212Bioimaging Unit, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- grid.10698.360000000122483208UNC Neuroscience Microscopy Core Facility, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, and UNC Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC USA
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- grid.10025.360000 0004 1936 8470Center for Cell Imaging, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- grid.38142.3c000000041936754XMicroscopy Resources of the North Quad, University of Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- grid.1006.70000 0001 0462 7212Bioimaging Unit, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- grid.5963.9Life Imaging Center and Signalling Research Centres CIBSS and BIOSS, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- grid.9486.30000 0001 2159 0001Laboratorio Nacional de Microscopía Avanzada, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- grid.411327.20000 0001 2176 9917Center for Advanced Imaging, Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- grid.38142.3c000000041936754XDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- grid.38142.3c000000041936754XDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA USA
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Tian Q, Lipp P. Apparent calcium spark properties and fast-scanning 2D confocal imaging modalities. Cell Calcium 2020; 93:102303. [PMID: 33316584 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceca.2020.102303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2020] [Revised: 09/11/2020] [Accepted: 09/25/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Ca2+ sparks are instrumental to understand physiological and pathological Ca2+ signaling in the heart. High-speed two spatially dimensional (2D) confocal imaging (>120 Hz) enables acquisition of sparks with high-content information, however, owing to a wide variety of different acquisition modalities the question arises: how much they reflect the "true" Ca2+ spark properties. To address this issue, we compared a fast point and a 2D-array scanner equipped with a range of different detectors. As a quasi-standard biological sample, we employed Ca2+ sparks in permeabilized and intact mouse ventricular myocytes and utilized an unbiased, automatic Ca2+ spark analysis tool, iSpark. Data from the point scanner suffered from low pixel photon fluxes (PPF) concomitant with high Poissonian noise. Images from the 2D-array scanner displayed substantially increased PPF, lower Poissonian noise and almost 3-fold increased sign-to-noise ratios. Noteworthy, data from the 2D scanner suffered from considerable inter-pinhole crosstalk evident for the permeabilized cells. Spark properties, such as frequency, amplitude, decay time and spatial spread were distinctly different for any scanner/detector combination. Our study reveals that the apparent Ca2+ spark properties differ dependent on the particular recording modality and set-up employed, quantitatively.
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- Qinghai Tian
- Center for Molecular Signaling (PZMS), Institute for Molecular Cell Biology, Research Center for Molecular Imaging and Screening, Medical Faculty, Saarland University, Kirrberger Str. 100, Homburg, Saar, 66421, Germany
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- Center for Molecular Signaling (PZMS), Institute for Molecular Cell Biology, Research Center for Molecular Imaging and Screening, Medical Faculty, Saarland University, Kirrberger Str. 100, Homburg, Saar, 66421, Germany.
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Nind T, Sutherland J, McAllister G, Hardy D, Hume A, MacLeod R, Caldwell J, Krueger S, Tramma L, Teviotdale R, Abdelatif M, Gillen K, Ward J, Scobbie D, Baillie I, Brooks A, Prodan B, Kerr W, Sloan-Murphy D, Herrera JFR, McManus D, Morris C, Sinclair C, Baxter R, Parsons M, Morris A, Jefferson E. An extensible big data software architecture managing a research resource of real-world clinical radiology data linked to other health data from the whole Scottish population. Gigascience 2020; 9:giaa095. [PMID: 32990744 PMCID: PMC7523405 DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giaa095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2020] [Revised: 07/28/2020] [Accepted: 08/26/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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AIM To enable a world-leading research dataset of routinely collected clinical images linked to other routinely collected data from the whole Scottish national population. This includes more than 30 million different radiological examinations from a population of 5.4 million and >2 PB of data collected since 2010. METHODS Scotland has a central archive of radiological data used to directly provide clinical care to patients. We have developed an architecture and platform to securely extract a copy of those data, link it to other clinical or social datasets, remove personal data to protect privacy, and make the resulting data available to researchers in a controlled Safe Haven environment. RESULTS An extensive software platform has been developed to host, extract, and link data from cohorts to answer research questions. The platform has been tested on 5 different test cases and is currently being further enhanced to support 3 exemplar research projects. CONCLUSIONS The data available are from a range of radiological modalities and scanner types and were collected under different environmental conditions. These real-world, heterogenous data are valuable for training algorithms to support clinical decision making, especially for deep learning where large data volumes are required. The resource is now available for international research access. The platform and data can support new health research using artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, as well as enabling discovery science.
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- Thomas Nind
- Health Informatics Centre (HIC), School of Medicine, University of Dundee, (Main level 5 corridor), Second Floor, Level 7, Mailbox 15, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY2, UK
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- Health Informatics Centre (HIC), School of Medicine, University of Dundee, (Main level 5 corridor), Second Floor, Level 7, Mailbox 15, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY2, UK
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- Health Informatics Centre (HIC), School of Medicine, University of Dundee, (Main level 5 corridor), Second Floor, Level 7, Mailbox 15, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY2, UK
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- Health Informatics Centre (HIC), School of Medicine, University of Dundee, (Main level 5 corridor), Second Floor, Level 7, Mailbox 15, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY2, UK
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- Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), Edinburgh University, Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT, UK
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- Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), Edinburgh University, Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT, UK
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- Electronic Data Research and Innovation Service (eDRIS), Public Health Scotland (PHS), Nine, Edinburgh Bioquarter, Little France Road, Edinburgh EH16 4UX, UK
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- Health Informatics Centre (HIC), School of Medicine, University of Dundee, (Main level 5 corridor), Second Floor, Level 7, Mailbox 15, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY2, UK
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- Health Informatics Centre (HIC), School of Medicine, University of Dundee, (Main level 5 corridor), Second Floor, Level 7, Mailbox 15, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY2, UK
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- Health Informatics Centre (HIC), School of Medicine, University of Dundee, (Main level 5 corridor), Second Floor, Level 7, Mailbox 15, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY2, UK
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- Health Informatics Centre (HIC), School of Medicine, University of Dundee, (Main level 5 corridor), Second Floor, Level 7, Mailbox 15, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY2, UK
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- Health Informatics Centre (HIC), School of Medicine, University of Dundee, (Main level 5 corridor), Second Floor, Level 7, Mailbox 15, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY2, UK
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- Health Informatics Centre (HIC), School of Medicine, University of Dundee, (Main level 5 corridor), Second Floor, Level 7, Mailbox 15, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY2, UK
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- Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), Edinburgh University, Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT, UK
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- Electronic Data Research and Innovation Service (eDRIS), Public Health Scotland (PHS), Nine, Edinburgh Bioquarter, Little France Road, Edinburgh EH16 4UX, UK
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- Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), Edinburgh University, Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT, UK
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- Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), Edinburgh University, Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT, UK
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- Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), Edinburgh University, Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT, UK
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- Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), Edinburgh University, Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT, UK
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- Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), Edinburgh University, Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT, UK
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- Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), Edinburgh University, Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT, UK
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- Electronic Data Research and Innovation Service (eDRIS), Public Health Scotland (PHS), Nine, Edinburgh Bioquarter, Little France Road, Edinburgh EH16 4UX, UK
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- Data Driven Innovation, Public Health Scotland (PHS), Gyle Square, 1 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh EH12 9EB, UK
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- Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), Edinburgh University, Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT, UK
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- Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), Edinburgh University, Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT, UK
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- Health Data Research (HDR) UK, Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK
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- Health Informatics Centre (HIC), School of Medicine, University of Dundee, (Main level 5 corridor), Second Floor, Level 7, Mailbox 15, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY2, UK
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Marqués G, Pengo T, Sanders MA. Imaging methods are vastly underreported in biomedical research. eLife 2020; 9:55133. [PMID: 32780019 PMCID: PMC7434332 DOI: 10.7554/elife.55133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2020] [Accepted: 08/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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A variety of microscopy techniques are used by researchers in the life and biomedical sciences. As these techniques become more powerful and more complex, it is vital that scientific articles containing images obtained with advanced microscopes include full details about how each image was obtained. To explore the reporting of such details we examined 240 original research articles published in eight journals. We found that the quality of reporting was poor, with some articles containing no information about how images were obtained, and many articles lacking important basic details. Efforts by researchers, funding agencies, journals, equipment manufacturers and staff at shared imaging facilities are required to improve the reporting of experiments that rely on microscopy techniques.
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- Guillermo Marqués
- University Imaging Centers and Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
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- University of Minnesota Informatics Institute , University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
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- University Imaging Centers and Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
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Stegner D, Heinze KG. Intravital imaging of megakaryocytes. Platelets 2020; 31:599-609. [PMID: 32153253 DOI: 10.1080/09537104.2020.1738366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The dynamics of platelet formation could only be investigated since the development of two-photon microscopy in combination with suitable fluorescent labeling strategies. In this review paper, we give an overview of recent advances in fluorescence imaging of the bone marrow that have contributed to our understanding of platelet biogenesis during the last decade. We make a brief survey through the perspectives and limitations of today's intravital imaging, but also discuss complementary methods that may help to piece together the puzzle of megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation.
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- David Stegner
- Institute of Experimental Biomedicine, University Hospital Würzburg , Würzburg, Germany
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- Rudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg , Würzburg, Germany
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Wang T, Li G, Wang D, Li F, Men D, Hu T, Xi Y, Zhang XE. Quantitative profiling of integrin αvβ3 on single cells with quantum dot labeling to reveal the phenotypic heterogeneity of glioblastoma. NANOSCALE 2019; 11:18224-18231. [PMID: 31560005 DOI: 10.1039/c9nr01105f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The distribution, localization and density of individual molecules (e.g. drug-specific receptors) on single cells can offer profound information about cell phenotypes. Profiling this information is a new research direction within the field of single cell biology, but it remains technically challenging. Through the combined use of quantum dot labeling, structured illumination microscopy (SIM) and computer-aided local surface reconstruction, we acquired a 3D imaging map of a drug target molecule, integrin αvβ3, on glioblastoma cells at the single cell level. The results revealed that integrin αvβ3 exhibits discrete distribution on the surface of glioblastoma cells, with its density differing significantly among cell lines. The density is illustrated as the approximate number of target molecules per μm2 on the irregular cell surface, ranging from 0 to 1.6. Functional studies revealed that the sensitivity of glioblastoma cells to inhibitor molecules depends on the density of the target molecules. After inhibitor treatment, the viability and invasion ability of different glioblastoma cells were highly correlated with the density of integrin αvβ3 on their surfaces. This study not only provides a novel protocol for the quantitative analysis of surface proteins from irregular single cells, but also offers a clue for understanding the heterogeneity of tumor cells on the basis of molecular phenotypes. Thus, this work has potential significance in guiding targeted therapies for cancers.
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- Tingting Wang
- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
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Qualifying antibodies for image-based immune profiling and multiplexed tissue imaging. Nat Protoc 2019; 14:2900-2930. [PMID: 31534232 DOI: 10.1038/s41596-019-0206-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2018] [Accepted: 06/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Multiplexed tissue imaging enables precise, spatially resolved enumeration and characterization of cell types and states in human resection specimens. A growing number of methods applicable to formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue sections have been described, the majority of which rely on antibodies for antigen detection and mapping. This protocol provides step-by-step procedures for confirming the selectivity and specificity of antibodies used in fluorescence-based tissue imaging and for the construction and validation of antibody panels. Although the protocol is implemented using tissue-based cyclic immunofluorescence (t-CyCIF) as an imaging platform, these antibody-testing methods are broadly applicable. We demonstrate assembly of a 16-antibody panel for enumerating and localizing T cells and B cells, macrophages, and cells expressing immune checkpoint regulators. The protocol is accessible to individuals with experience in microscopy and immunofluorescence; some experience in computation is required for data analysis. A typical 30-antibody dataset for 20 FFPE slides can be generated within 2 weeks.
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Visiting the Bio Imaging Search Engine (BISE) (Bio, BISE, Engine, http://biii.eu/, Imaging, Search) website at the time of writing this article, almost 1200 open source assets (components, workflows, collections) were found. This overwhelming range of offer difficults the fact of making a reasonable choice, especially to newcomers. In the following chapter, we briefly sketch the advantages of the open source software (OSS) particularly used for image analysis in the field of life sciences. We introduce both the general OSS idea as well as some programs used for image analysis. Even more, we outline the history of ImageJ as it has served as a role model for the development of more recent software packages. We focus on the programs that are, to our knowledge, the most relevant and widely used in the field of light microscopy, as well as the most commonly used within our facility. In addition, we briefly discuss recent efforts and approaches aimed to share and compare algorithms and introduce software and data sharing good practices as a promising strategy to facilitate reproducibility, software understanding, and optimal software choice for a given scientific problem in the future.
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- Romain Guiet
- Faculty of Life Sciences (SV), BioImaging and Optics Platform (BIOP), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Life Sciences (SV), BioImaging and Optics Platform (BIOP), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Life Sciences (SV), BioImaging and Optics Platform (BIOP), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Mandal K, Jana D, Ghorai BK, Jana NR. Functionalized chitosan with self-assembly induced and subcellular localization-dependent fluorescence ‘switch on’ property. NEW J CHEM 2018. [DOI: 10.1039/c8nj00067k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A chitosan-based probe was developed that offers a self-assembly-induced and subcellular localization-dependent fluorescence ‘switch on’ property.
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- Kuheli Mandal
- Centre for Advanced Materials
- Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
- Kolkata 700 032
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology
- Howrah 711 103
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology
- Howrah 711 103
- India
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- Centre for Advanced Materials
- Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
- Kolkata 700 032
- India
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An automatic and efficient coronary arteries extraction method in CT angiographies. Biomed Signal Process Control 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2017.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Smooth 2D manifold extraction from 3D image stack. Nat Commun 2017; 8:15554. [PMID: 28561033 PMCID: PMC5499208 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2017] [Accepted: 04/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy followed by image processing is routinely used to study biological objects at various scales such as cells and tissue. However, maximum intensity projection, the most broadly used rendering tool, extracts a discontinuous layer of voxels, obliviously creating important artifacts and possibly misleading interpretation. Here we propose smooth manifold extraction, an algorithm that produces a continuous focused 2D extraction from a 3D volume, hence preserving local spatial relationships. We demonstrate the usefulness of our approach by applying it to various biological applications using confocal and wide-field microscopy 3D image stacks. We provide a parameter-free ImageJ/Fiji plugin that allows 2D visualization and interpretation of 3D image stacks with maximum accuracy. Maximum Intensity Projection is a common tool to represent 3D biological imaging data in a 2D space, but it creates artefacts. Here the authors develop Smooth Manifold Extraction, an ImageJ/Fiji plugin, to preserve local spatial relationships when extracting the content of a 3D volume to a 2D space.
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Li Z, Zhang Y, Gong H, Li W, Tang X. Automatic coronary artery segmentation based on multi-domains remapping and quantile regression in angiographies. Comput Med Imaging Graph 2016; 54:55-66. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2016.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2015] [Revised: 08/08/2016] [Accepted: 08/17/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Venkat A, Christensen C, Gyulassy A, Summa B, Federer F, Angelucci A, Pascucci V. A Scalable Cyberinfrastructure for Interactive Visualization of Terascale Microscopy Data. ... NEW YORK SCIENTIFIC DATA SUMMIT (NYSDS) : PROCEEDINGS ... 2016. [PMID: 28638896 DOI: 10.1109/nysds.2016.7747805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The goal of the recently emerged field of connectomics is to generate a wiring diagram of the brain at different scales. To identify brain circuitry, neuroscientists use specialized microscopes to perform multichannel imaging of labeled neurons at a very high resolution. CLARITY tissue clearing allows imaging labeled circuits through entire tissue blocks, without the need for tissue sectioning and section-to-section alignment. Imaging the large and complex non-human primate brain with sufficient resolution to identify and disambiguate between axons, in particular, produces massive data, creating great computational challenges to the study of neural circuits. Researchers require novel software capabilities for compiling, stitching, and visualizing large imagery. In this work, we detail the image acquisition process and a hierarchical streaming platform, ViSUS, that enables interactive visualization of these massive multi-volume datasets using a standard desktop computer. The ViSUS visualization framework has previously been shown to be suitable for 3D combustion simulation, climate simulation and visualization of large scale panoramic images. The platform is organized around a hierarchical cache oblivious data layout, called the IDX file format, which enables interactive visualization and exploration in ViSUS, scaling to the largest 3D images. In this paper we showcase the VISUS framework used in an interactive setting with the microscopy data.
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- A Venkat
- Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Tulane University
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Dürr O, Duval F, Nichols A, Lang P, Brodte A, Heyse S, Besson D. Robust Hit Identification by Quality Assurance and Multivariate Data Analysis of a High-Content, Cell-Based Assay. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016; 12:1042-9. [DOI: 10.1177/1087057107309036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Recent technological advances in high-content screening instrumentation have increased its ease of use and throughput, expanding the application of high-content screening to the early stages of drug discovery. However, high-content screens produce complex data sets, presenting a challenge for both extraction and interpretation of meaningful information. This shifts the high-content screening process bottleneck from the experimental to the analytical stage. In this article, the authors discuss different approaches of data analysis, using a phenotypic neurite outgrowth screen as an example. Distance measurements and hierarchical clustering methods lead to a profound understanding of different high-content screening readouts. In addition, the authors introduce a hit selection procedure based on machine learning methods and demonstrate that this method increases the hit verification rate significantly (up to a factor of 5), compared to conventional hit selection based on single readouts only. ( Journal of Biomolecular Screening 2007:1042-1049)
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- Merck Serono International SA, Geneva, Switzerland
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BioSig3D: High Content Screening of Three-Dimensional Cell Culture Models. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0148379. [PMID: 26978075 PMCID: PMC4792475 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2015] [Accepted: 01/17/2016] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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BioSig3D is a computational platform for high-content screening of three-dimensional (3D) cell culture models that are imaged in full 3D volume. It provides an end-to-end solution for designing high content screening assays, based on colony organization that is derived from segmentation of nuclei in each colony. BioSig3D also enables visualization of raw and processed 3D volumetric data for quality control, and integrates advanced bioinformatics analysis. The system consists of multiple computational and annotation modules that are coupled together with a strong use of controlled vocabularies to reduce ambiguities between different users. It is a web-based system that allows users to: design an experiment by defining experimental variables, upload a large set of volumetric images into the system, analyze and visualize the dataset, and either display computed indices as a heatmap, or phenotypic subtypes for heterogeneity analysis, or download computed indices for statistical analysis or integrative biology. BioSig3D has been used to profile baseline colony formations with two experiments: (i) morphogenesis of a panel of human mammary epithelial cell lines (HMEC), and (ii) heterogeneity in colony formation using an immortalized non-transformed cell line. These experiments reveal intrinsic growth properties of well-characterized cell lines that are routinely used for biological studies. BioSig3D is being released with seed datasets and video-based documentation.
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Li S, Besson S, Blackburn C, Carroll M, Ferguson RK, Flynn H, Gillen K, Leigh R, Lindner D, Linkert M, Moore WJ, Ramalingam B, Rozbicki E, Rustici G, Tarkowska A, Walczysko P, Williams E, Allan C, Burel JM, Moore J, Swedlow JR. Metadata management for high content screening in OMERO. Methods 2016; 96:27-32. [PMID: 26476368 PMCID: PMC4773399 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2015.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2015] [Accepted: 10/13/2015] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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High content screening (HCS) experiments create a classic data management challenge-multiple, large sets of heterogeneous structured and unstructured data, that must be integrated and linked to produce a set of "final" results. These different data include images, reagents, protocols, analytic output, and phenotypes, all of which must be stored, linked and made accessible for users, scientists, collaborators and where appropriate the wider community. The OME Consortium has built several open source tools for managing, linking and sharing these different types of data. The OME Data Model is a metadata specification that supports the image data and metadata recorded in HCS experiments. Bio-Formats is a Java library that reads recorded image data and metadata and includes support for several HCS screening systems. OMERO is an enterprise data management application that integrates image data, experimental and analytic metadata and makes them accessible for visualization, mining, sharing and downstream analysis. We discuss how Bio-Formats and OMERO handle these different data types, and how they can be used to integrate, link and share HCS experiments in facilities and public data repositories. OME specifications and software are open source and are available at https://www.openmicroscopy.org.
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- Simon Li
- Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK; Glencoe Software, Inc., Seattle, WA, USA
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- Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK; Glencoe Software, Inc., Seattle, WA, USA.
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Seeing Is Believing: Quantifying Is Convincing: Computational Image Analysis in Biology. FOCUS ON BIO-IMAGE INFORMATICS 2016; 219:1-39. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-28549-8_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Li M, Song X, Zhang T, Zeng L, Xing J. Aggregation induced emission controlled by a temperature-sensitive organic–inorganic hybrid polymer with a particular LCST. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra16244d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The fluorescence intensity change of TPE encapsulated in POSS–PNIPAM with a particular LCST (37.5 °C) with the temperature change.
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- Mengmeng Li
- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology
- Tianjin University
- Tianjin
- China
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- College of Material Science and Engineering
- Tianjin Polytechnic University
- Tianjin
- China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology
- Tianjin University
- Tianjin
- China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Tianjin University of Technology
- China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology
- Tianjin University
- Tianjin
- China
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Zhang S, Duan W, Xi Y, Yang T, Gao B. Cell membrane permeable fluorescent perylene bisimide derivatives for cell lysosome imaging. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra20444a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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The cellular uptake of Lyso-APBIprobes is improved by PEG chains, and the double morpholine moieties make Lyso-APBI probes have higher acid activation ratio and better cell lysosome specificity.
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- Shuchen Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Diagnosis (Hebei University)
- Ministry of Education
- Baoding
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Science and Technology of Hebei Province
- College of Chemistry and Environmental Science
- Hebei University
- Baoding
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Science and Technology of Hebei Province
- College of Chemistry and Environmental Science
- Hebei University
- Baoding
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Diagnosis (Hebei University)
- Ministry of Education
- Baoding
- China
- Key Laboratory of Analytical Science and Technology of Hebei Province
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- Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Diagnosis (Hebei University)
- Ministry of Education
- Baoding
- China
- Key Laboratory of Analytical Science and Technology of Hebei Province
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Peng H, Zhou J, Zhou Z, Bria A, Li Y, Kleissas DM, Drenkow NG, Long B, Liu X, Chen H. Bioimage Informatics for Big Data. ADVANCES IN ANATOMY, EMBRYOLOGY, AND CELL BIOLOGY 2016; 219:263-72. [PMID: 27207370 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-28549-8_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Bioimage informatics is a field wherein high-throughput image informatics methods are used to solve challenging scientific problems related to biology and medicine. When the image datasets become larger and more complicated, many conventional image analysis approaches are no longer applicable. Here, we discuss two critical challenges of large-scale bioimage informatics applications, namely, data accessibility and adaptive data analysis. We highlight case studies to show that these challenges can be tackled based on distributed image computing as well as machine learning of image examples in a multidimensional environment.
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- Hanchuan Peng
- Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA, USA.
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- Department of Computer Science, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL, USA
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- Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Engineering, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy.,Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Cassino and L.M., Cassino, Italy
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- Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA
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- Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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Mari JF, Saito JH, Neves AF, Lotufo CMDC, Destro-Filho JB, Nicoletti MDC. Quantitative Analysis of Rat Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons Cultured on Microelectrode Arrays Based on Fluorescence Microscopy Image Processing. Int J Neural Syst 2015; 25:1550033. [PMID: 26510475 DOI: 10.1142/s0129065715500331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Microelectrode Arrays (MEA) are devices for long term electrophysiological recording of extracellular spontaneous or evocated activities on in vitro neuron culture. This work proposes and develops a framework for quantitative and morphological analysis of neuron cultures on MEAs, by processing their corresponding images, acquired by fluorescence microscopy. The neurons are segmented from the fluorescence channel images using a combination of segmentation by thresholding, watershed transform, and object classification. The positioning of microelectrodes is obtained from the transmitted light channel images using the circular Hough transform. The proposed method was applied to images of dissociated culture of rat dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neuronal cells. The morphological and topological quantitative analysis carried out produced information regarding the state of culture, such as population count, neuron-to-neuron and neuron-to-microelectrode distances, soma morphologies, neuron sizes, neuron and microelectrode spatial distributions. Most of the analysis of microscopy images taken from neuronal cultures on MEA only consider simple qualitative analysis. Also, the proposed framework aims to standardize the image processing and to compute quantitative useful measures for integrated image-signal studies and further computational simulations. As results show, the implemented microelectrode identification method is robust and so are the implemented neuron segmentation and classification one (with a correct segmentation rate up to 84%). The quantitative information retrieved by the method is highly relevant to assist the integrated signal-image study of recorded electrophysiological signals as well as the physical aspects of the neuron culture on MEA. Although the experiments deal with DRG cell images, cortical and hippocampal cell images could also be processed with small adjustments in the image processing parameter estimation.
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- João Fernando Mari
- * Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas - Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 38810-000 Rio Paranaí, MG, Brazil.,† Department of Computer Science - UFSCar, 13565-905 S. Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- † Department of Computer Science - UFSCar, 13565-905 S. Carlos, SP, Brazil.,‡ FACCAMP - 13231-230 Campo Limpo Paulista, SP, Brazil
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- § School of Electrical Engineering - UFU, 38400-902 Uberlândia, MG, Brazil.,∥ Department of Structural and Functional Biology - UNICAMP, 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- † Department of Computer Science - UFSCar, 13565-905 S. Carlos, SP, Brazil.,‡ FACCAMP - 13231-230 Campo Limpo Paulista, SP, Brazil
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Bajcsy P, Cardone A, Chalfoun J, Halter M, Juba D, Kociolek M, Majurski M, Peskin A, Simon C, Simon M, Vandecreme A, Brady M. Survey statistics of automated segmentations applied to optical imaging of mammalian cells. BMC Bioinformatics 2015; 16:330. [PMID: 26472075 PMCID: PMC4608288 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-015-0762-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2015] [Accepted: 10/07/2015] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The goal of this survey paper is to overview cellular measurements using optical microscopy imaging followed by automated image segmentation. The cellular measurements of primary interest are taken from mammalian cells and their components. They are denoted as two- or three-dimensional (2D or 3D) image objects of biological interest. In our applications, such cellular measurements are important for understanding cell phenomena, such as cell counts, cell-scaffold interactions, cell colony growth rates, or cell pluripotency stability, as well as for establishing quality metrics for stem cell therapies. In this context, this survey paper is focused on automated segmentation as a software-based measurement leading to quantitative cellular measurements. METHODS We define the scope of this survey and a classification schema first. Next, all found and manually filteredpublications are classified according to the main categories: (1) objects of interests (or objects to be segmented), (2) imaging modalities, (3) digital data axes, (4) segmentation algorithms, (5) segmentation evaluations, (6) computational hardware platforms used for segmentation acceleration, and (7) object (cellular) measurements. Finally, all classified papers are converted programmatically into a set of hyperlinked web pages with occurrence and co-occurrence statistics of assigned categories. RESULTS The survey paper presents to a reader: (a) the state-of-the-art overview of published papers about automated segmentation applied to optical microscopy imaging of mammalian cells, (b) a classification of segmentation aspects in the context of cell optical imaging, (c) histogram and co-occurrence summary statistics about cellular measurements, segmentations, segmented objects, segmentation evaluations, and the use of computational platforms for accelerating segmentation execution, and (d) open research problems to pursue. CONCLUSIONS The novel contributions of this survey paper are: (1) a new type of classification of cellular measurements and automated segmentation, (2) statistics about the published literature, and (3) a web hyperlinked interface to classification statistics of the surveyed papers at https://isg.nist.gov/deepzoomweb/resources/survey/index.html.
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- Peter Bajcsy
- Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- O. Joseph Trask
- Cellular Imaging Core, The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Nelson CJ, Duckney P, Hawkins TJ, Deeks MJ, Laissue PP, Hussey PJ, Obara B. Blobs and curves: object-based colocalisation for plant cells. FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY : FPB 2015; 42:471-485. [PMID: 32480693 DOI: 10.1071/fp14047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2014] [Accepted: 07/21/2014] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Blobs and curves occur everywhere in plant bioimaging: from signals of fluorescence-labelled proteins, through cytoskeletal structures, nuclei staining and cell extensions such as root hairs. Here we look at the problem of colocalisation of blobs with blobs (protein-protein colocalisation) and blobs with curves (organelle-cytoskeleton colocalisation). This article demonstrates a clear quantitative alternative to pixel-based colocalisation methods and, using object-based methods, can quantify not only the level of colocalisation but also the distance between objects. Included in this report are computational algorithms, biological experiments and guidance for those looking to increase their use of computationally-based and quantified analysis of bioimages.
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- Carl J Nelson
- School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Durham University, Durham DH13LE, UK
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- School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, Durham DH13LE, UK
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- School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, Durham DH13LE, UK
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4SB, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK
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- School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, Durham DH13LE, UK
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- School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Durham University, Durham DH13LE, UK
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Wang Z, Yong TY, Wan J, Li ZH, Zhao H, Zhao Y, Gan L, Yang XL, Xu HB, Zhang C. Temperature-sensitive fluorescent organic nanoparticles with aggregation-induced emission for long-term cellular tracing. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2015; 7:3420-3425. [PMID: 25602511 DOI: 10.1021/am509161y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Temperature-sensitive organic nanoparticles with AIE effect were assembled in water from tetraphenylethene-based poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (TPE-PNIPAM), which was synthesized by ATRP using TPE derivative as initiator. The size and fluorescence of TPE-PNIPAM nanoparticles can be tuned by varying the temperature. These nanoparticles can be internalized readily by HeLa cells and can be used as long-term tracer in live cells to be retained for as long as seven passages.
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- Zhen Wang
- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , and National Engineering Research Center for Nanomedicine, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China
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A robust coronary artery identification and centerline extraction method in angiographies. Biomed Signal Process Control 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2014.09.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Feng G, Tay CY, Chui QX, Liu R, Tomczak N, Liu J, Tang BZ, Leong DT, Liu B. Ultrabright organic dots with aggregation-induced emission characteristics for cell tracking. Biomaterials 2014; 35:8669-77. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2014.06.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2014] [Accepted: 06/09/2014] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Confocal microscopy on the Internet. Methods Mol Biol 2014. [PMID: 24052347 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-847-8_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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In a few short years, the Internet (in terms of the World Wide Web) has become a powerful informational resource for the original scientific literature pertaining to biological investigations using the laser scanning confocal microscope. However, there still remains an obvious void in the development of educational Web sites targeted at beginning students and novices in the field. Furthermore, many of the commercial aftermarket manufacturers (for example, those offering live-cell imaging chambers) have Web sites that are not adequately represented in published compilations, and are therefore somewhat difficult to locate. In order to address this issue, several educational sites dedicated to optical microscopy and digital imaging that are being constructed and hosted at The Florida State University are currently turning their attention to the increasing application of confocal microscopy in the biological and materials sciences. The primary focus of this effort is to create new sections on the existing sites that address the important educational issues in confocal microscopy, as well as creating indices of links to both the confocal scientific literature and the Web sites of manufacturers who supply useful accessories.
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Paddock SW, Eliceiri KW. Laser scanning confocal microscopy: history, applications, and related optical sectioning techniques. Methods Mol Biol 2014; 1075:9-47. [PMID: 24052346 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-847-8_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Confocal microscopy is an established light microscopical technique for imaging fluorescently labeled specimens with significant three-dimensional structure. Applications of confocal microscopy in the biomedical sciences include the imaging of the spatial distribution of macromolecules in either fixed or living cells, the automated collection of 3D data, the imaging of multiple labeled specimens and the measurement of physiological events in living cells. The laser scanning confocal microscope continues to be chosen for most routine work although a number of instruments have been developed for more specific applications. Significant improvements have been made to all areas of the confocal approach, not only to the instruments themselves, but also to the protocols of specimen preparation, to the analysis, the display, the reproduction, sharing and management of confocal images using bioinformatics techniques.
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- Stephen W Paddock
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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Chen T, Hansen G, Beske O, Yates K, Zhu Y, Anthony M, Agler M, Banks M. Analysis of cellular events using CellCard™ System in cell-based high-content multiplexed assays. Expert Rev Mol Diagn 2014; 5:817-29. [PMID: 16149883 DOI: 10.1586/14737159.5.5.817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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High-content screening technologies utilize assays that monitor and quantify multiple cellular events. These assays are typically performed on a single cell type with automated microscopy and image analysis. However, in order to better understand the selectivity of a compound across multiple cell lines, these types of assay must be run serially, which is time consuming. The CellCard System developed by Vitra Bioscience enables multiple cell types to be assayed within a single microtiter well, thereby enabling the simultaneous determination of cellular responses across ten cell types. This multiplexed approach could address the demand for assay capacity, increase the quality of the biologic data, reduce timelines, and improve cost-effectiveness in hit identification and lead evaluation. The authors have carried out an in-depth evaluation of this technology platform using ten cancer cell lines and a library of compounds that affect cellular growth through different mechanisms. Multiple assays were used to investigate the compound effects on membrane integrity, cell cycle progression and apoptosis. In this technology review, the authors discuss personal experience with assay validation, data analysis, results such as cell type-specific compound effects, and the potential application of the CellCard System in drug discovery.
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- Taosheng Chen
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Lead Discovery & Profiling, 5 Research Parkway, Wallingford, CT 06492, USA.
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Peng H, Bria A, Zhou Z, Iannello G, Long F. Extensible visualization and analysis for multidimensional images using Vaa3D. Nat Protoc 2014; 9:193-208. [PMID: 24385149 DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 169] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Open-Source 3D Visualization-Assisted Analysis (Vaa3D) is a software platform for the visualization and analysis of large-scale multidimensional images. In this protocol we describe how to use several popular features of Vaa3D, including (i) multidimensional image visualization, (ii) 3D image object generation and quantitative measurement, (iii) 3D image comparison, fusion and management, (iv) visualization of heterogeneous images and respective surface objects and (v) extension of Vaa3D functions using its plug-in interface. We also briefly demonstrate how to integrate these functions for complicated applications of microscopic image visualization and quantitative analysis using three exemplar pipelines, including an automated pipeline for image filtering, segmentation and surface generation; an automated pipeline for 3D image stitching; and an automated pipeline for neuron morphology reconstruction, quantification and comparison. Once a user is familiar with Vaa3D, visualization usually runs in real time and analysis takes less than a few minutes for a simple data set.
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- Hanchuan Peng
- 1] Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, Seattle, Washington, USA. [2] Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, USA
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- 1] Integrated Research Centre, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy. [2] Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Cassino, Italy
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- Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Integrated Research Centre, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- 1] Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, USA. [2] BioImage, LLC, Bellevue, Washington, USA
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Molitoris BA. Using 2-photon microscopy to understand albuminuria. TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN CLINICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 2014; 125:343-56; discussion 356-7. [PMID: 25125750 PMCID: PMC4112674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Intravital 2-photon microscopy, along with the development of fluorescent probes and innovative software, has rapidly advanced the study of intracellular and intercellular processes at the organ level. Researchers can quantify the distribution, behavior, and dynamic interactions of up to four labeled chemical probes and proteins simultaneously and repeatedly in four dimensions (3D + time) with subcellular resolution in real time. Transgenic fluorescently labeled proteins, delivery of plasmids, and photo-activatable probes enhance these possibilities. Thus, multi-photon microscopy has greatly extended our ability to understand cell biology intra-vitally at cellular and subcellular levels. For example, evaluation of rat surface glomeruli and accompanying proximal tubules has shown the long held paradigm regarding limited albumin filtration under physiologic conditions is to be questioned. Furthermore, the role of proximal tubules in determining albuminuria under physiologic and disease conditions was supported by direct visualization and quantitative analysis.
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Habte F, Budhiraja S, Keren S, Doyle TC, Levin CS, Paik DS. In situ study of the impact of inter- and intra-reader variability on region of interest (ROI) analysis in preclinical molecular imaging. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND MOLECULAR IMAGING 2013; 3:175-181. [PMID: 23526701 PMCID: PMC3601477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2012] [Accepted: 01/28/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We estimated reader-dependent variability of region of interest (ROI) analysis and evaluated its impact on preclinical quantitative molecular imaging. To estimate reader variability, we used five independent image datasets acquired each using microPET and multispectral fluorescence imaging (MSFI). We also selected ten experienced researchers who utilize molecular imaging in the same environment that they typically perform their own studies. Nine investigators blinded to the data type completed the ROI analysis by drawing ROIs manually that delineate the tumor regions to the best of their knowledge and repeated the measurements three times, non-consecutively. Extracted mean intensities of voxels within each ROI are used to compute the coefficient of variation (CV) and characterize the inter- and intra-reader variability. The impact of variability was assessed through random samples iterated from normal distributions for control and experimental groups on hypothesis testing and computing statistical power by varying subject size, measured difference between groups and CV. The results indicate that inter-reader variability was 22.5% for microPET and 72.2% for MSFI. Additionally, mean intra-reader variability was 10.1% for microPET and 26.4% for MSFI. Repeated statistical testing showed that a total variability of CV < 50% may be needed to detect differences < 50% between experimental and control groups when six subjects (n = 6) or more are used and statistical power is adequate (80%). Surprisingly high variability has been observed mainly due to differences in the ROI placement and geometry drawn between readers, which may adversely affect statistical power and erroneously lead to negative study outcomes.
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- Frezghi Habte
- Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Stanford UniversityStanford, CA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA, USA
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- Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Stanford UniversityStanford, CA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA, USA
- Current Address: Adobe Systems India Private LimitedCity Center, Sector 25-A, Noida 20130, India
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- Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Stanford UniversityStanford, CA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA, USA
- Current Address: Nofim SchoolHaifa, Israel
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- Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Stanford UniversityStanford, CA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA, USA
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- Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Stanford UniversityStanford, CA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA, USA
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- Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Stanford UniversityStanford, CA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA, USA
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Bush A, Chernomoretz A, Yu R, Gordon A, Colman-Lerner A. Using Cell-ID 1.4 with R for microscope-based cytometry. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; Chapter 14:Unit 14.18. [PMID: 23026908 DOI: 10.1002/0471142727.mb1418s100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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This unit describes a method for quantifying various cellular features (e.g., volume, total and subcellular fluorescence localization) from sets of microscope images of individual cells. It includes procedures for tracking cells over time. One purposely defocused transmission image (sometimes referred to as bright-field or BF) is acquired to segment the image and locate each cell. Fluorescence images (one for each of the color channels to be analyzed) are then acquired by conventional wide-field epifluorescence or confocal microscopy. This method uses the image-processing capabilities of Cell-ID and data analysis by the statistical programming framework R, which is supplemented with a package of routines for analyzing Cell-ID output. Both Cell-ID and the analysis package are open-source.
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- Alan Bush
- IFIByNE-CONICET and Department of Physiology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, FCEN, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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URISH KL, DEASY BM, HUARD J. Automated classification and visualization of fluorescent live cell microscopy images. J Microsc 2013; 249:206-14. [DOI: 10.1111/jmi.12010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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