Vertebrate neural stem cell segmentation, tracking and lineaging with validation and editing.

Abstract:

:This protocol and the accompanying software program called LEVER (lineage editing and validation) enable quantitative automated analysis of phase-contrast time-lapse images of cultured neural stem cells. Images are captured at 5-min intervals over a period of 5-15 d as the cells proliferate and differentiate. LEVER automatically segments, tracks and generates lineage trees of the stem cells from the image sequence. In addition to generating lineage trees capturing the population dynamics of clonal development, LEVER extracts quantitative phenotypic measurements of cell location, shape, movement and size. When available, the system can include biomolecular markers imaged using fluorescence. It then displays the results to the user for highly efficient inspection and editing to correct any errors in the segmentation, tracking or lineaging. To enable high-throughput inspection, LEVER incorporates features for rapid identification of errors and for learning from user-supplied corrections to automatically identify and correct related errors.

journal_name

Nat Protoc

journal_title

Nature protocols

authors

Winter M,Wait E,Roysam B,Goderie SK,Ali RA,Kokovay E,Temple S,Cohen AR

doi

10.1038/nprot.2011.422

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-11-17 00:00:00

pages

1942-52

issue

12

eissn

1754-2189

issn

1750-2799

pii

nprot.2011.422

journal_volume

6

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