PUBLICATION

Cell Tracking Profiler: a user-driven analysis framework for evaluating 4D live cell imaging data

Authors
Mitchell, C., Caroff, L., Solis-Lemus, J.A., Reyes-Aldasoro, C.C., Vigilante, A., Warburton, F., de Chaumont, F., Dufour, A., Dallongeville, S., Olivo-Marin, J.C., Knight, R.
ID
ZDB-PUB-201024-7
Date
2020
Source
Journal of Cell Science   133(22): (Journal)
Registered Authors
Knight, Robert
Keywords
Cell tracking, Icy, Imaris, In vivo imaging, Muscle, Phagosight, Segmentation, Zebrafish
MeSH Terms
  • Algorithms
  • Animals
  • Cell Tracking*
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional
  • Movement
  • Zebrafish*
PubMed
33093241 Full text @ J. Cell Sci.
Abstract
Accurate measurements of cell morphology and behaviour are fundamentally important for understanding how disease, molecules and drugs affect cell function in vivo Using muscle stem cell (muSC) responses to injury in zebrafish as our biological paradigm we established a ground truth for muSC behaviour. This revealed segmentation and tracking algorithms from commonly used programs are error-prone, leading us to develop a fast semi-automated image analysis pipeline that allows user defined parameters for segmentation and correction of cell tracking. Cell Tracking Profiler (CTP) is a package that runs two existing programs, HK Means and Phagosight within the Icy image analysis suite, to enable user-managed cell tracking from 3D time-lapsed datasets to provide measures of cell shape and movement. We demonstrate how CTP can be used to reveal changes to cell behaviour of muSCs in response to manipulation of the cell cytoskeleton by small molecule inhibitors. CTP and the associated tools we have developed for analysis of outputs thus provide a powerful framework for analysing complex cell behaviour in vivo from 4D datasets that are not amenable to straightforward analysis.
Genes / Markers
Figures
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping