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Comparison of quantitative methods for cell-shape analysis.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  17845709     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Morphology is an important large-scale manifestation of the global organizational and physiological state of cells, and is commonly used as a qualitative or quantitative measure of the outcome of various assays. Here we evaluate several different basic representations of cell shape - binary masks, distance maps and polygonal outlines - and different subsequent encodings of those representations - Fourier and Zernike decompositions, and the principal and independent components analyses - to determine which are best at capturing biologically important shape variation. We find that principal components analysis of two-dimensional shapes represented as outlines provide measures of morphology which are quantitative, biologically meaningful, human interpretable and work well across a range of cell types and parameter settings.
Authors:
Z Pincus; J A Theriot
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of microscopy     Volume:  227     ISSN:  0022-2720     ISO Abbreviation:  J Microsc     Publication Date:  2007 Aug 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2007-09-11     Completed Date:  2007-11-30     Revised Date:  2009-11-19    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0204522     Medline TA:  J Microsc     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  140-56     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Program in Biomedical Informatics, and Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Animals
Caulobacter / cytology*
Cell Biology*
Cell Size
Cells, Cultured / cytology*
Grant Support
ID/Acronym/Agency:
5-T15-LM007003-23/LM/NLM NIH HHS

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