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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2019

TIMING 2.0: high-throughput single-cell profiling of dynamic cell-cell interactions by time-lapse imaging microscopy in nanowell grids.

Hengyang Lu, Jiabing Li, Melisa A Martinez-Paniagua, Irfan N Bandey, Amit Amritkar, Harjeet Singh, David Mayerich, Navin Varadarajan, Badrinath Roysam

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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Hengyang LuDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Jiabing LiDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Melisa A Martinez-PaniaguaDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Irfan N BandeyDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Amit AmritkarCenter for Advanced Computing and Data Science and Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Harjeet SinghDivision of Pediatrics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
David MayerichDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Navin VaradarajanDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Badrinath RoysamDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.

Funding

Quantitative single-cell biomarkers of T-cells to optimize tumor immunotherapyR01CA174385 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON · PI COOPER, LAURENCE J.N., VARADARAJAN, NAVIN · 2012 to 2015
$2.1M
Large-Scale Reconstruction of Microvascular Networks and the Surrounding CellularR00LM011390 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON · PI MAYERICH, DAVID · 2014 to 2016
$730k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA174385NLM NIH HHS R00 LM011390
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationAutomated profiling of cell-cell interactions from high-throughput time-lapse imaging microscopy data of cells in nanowell grids (TIMING) has led to fundamental insights into cell-cell interactions in immunotherapy. This application note aims to enable widespread adoption of TIMING by (i) enabling the computations to occur on a desktop computer with a graphical processing unit instead of a server; (ii) enabling image acquisition and analysis to occur in the laboratory avoiding network data transfers to/from a server and (iii) providing a comprehensive graphical user interface.

resultsOn a desktop computer, TIMING 2.0 takes 5 s/block/image frame, four times faster than our previous method on the same computer, and twice as fast as our previous method (TIMING) running on a Dell PowerEdge server. The cell segmentation accuracy (f-number = 0.993) is superior to our previous method (f-number = 0.821). A graphical user interface provides the ability to inspect the video analysis results, make corrective edits efficiently (one-click editing of an entire nanowell video sequence in 5-10 s) and display a summary of the cell killing efficacy measurements. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Open source Python software (GPL v3 license), instruction manual, sample data and sample results are included with the Supplement (https://github.com/RoysamLab/TIMING2). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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Cell CommunicationMicroscopySingle-Cell AnalysisSoftwareTime-Lapse ImagingComputer GraphicsUser-Computer Interface

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PMID30084956
PMCPMC6378937

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