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ReviewF1000Research2021

Calcium imaging analysis - how far have we come?

Miranda Robbins, Charles N Christensen, Clemens F Kaminski, Marta Zlatic

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Review in F1000Research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. An Advanced Undergraduate Laboratory Course: Calcium Imaging and Data Analysis - a Mini Graduate Research Experience.Journal of undergraduate neuroscience education : JUNE : a publication of FUN, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience · 2025
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  11. TACI: An ImageJ Plugin for 3D Calcium Imaging Analysis.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Miranda Robbins *MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6576-5763
Charles N Christensen *Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Clemens F KaminskiDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Marta ZlaticMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_UP_1201/20Medical Research Council MR/R025665/1Wellcome Trust 205050/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Techniques for calcium imaging were first demonstrated in the mid-1970s, whilst tools to analyse these markers of cellular activity are still being developed and improved today. For image analysis, custom tools were developed within labs and until relatively recently, software packages were not widely available between researchers. We will discuss some of the most popular methods for calcium imaging analysis that are now widely available and describe why these protocols are so effective. We will also describe some of the newest innovations in the field that are likely to benefit researchers, particularly as calcium imaging is often an inherently low signal-to-noise method. Although calcium imaging analysis has seen recent advances, particularly following the rise of machine learning, we will end by highlighting the outstanding requirements and questions that hinder further progress and pose the question of how far we have come in the past sixty years and what can be expected for future development in the field.

Indexed as

CalciumImage Processing, Computer-AssistedDiagnostic ImagingMachine LearningCalciumCalcium ImagingClassificationDenoisingMachine LearningMotion CorrectionNeural NetworksQuantification

Identifiers

PMID34504683
PMCPMC8406438.2

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