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ArticleJournal of visualized experiments : JoVE2022

TACI: An ImageJ Plugin for 3D Calcium Imaging Analysis.

Alisa A Omelchenko, Hua Bai, Sibtain Hussain, Jordan J Tyrrell, Mason Klein, Lina Ni

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. 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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  2. The impacts of hypertonic conditions onFrontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Alisa A OmelchenkoSchool of Neuroscience, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; CMU-Pitt Joint Computational Biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh.
Hua BaiSchool of Neuroscience, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Sibtain HussainSchool of Neuroscience, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Jordan J TyrrellSchool of Neuroscience, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Eastern Virginia Medical School.
Mason KleinDepartment of Physics, University of Miami.
Lina NiSchool of Neuroscience, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; linani@vt.edu.

Funding

Demonstrate the molecular receptor and functions of dorsal organ warm cells in fliesR01GM140130 · NIGMS · VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV · PI NI, LINA · 2021 to 2025
$1.7M
Develop functional trans-Tango to identify higher-order neurons with determined functionsR21MH122987 · NIMH · VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV · PI NI, LINA · 2020 to 2020
$432k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM140130NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH122987
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Research in neuroscience has evolved to use complex imaging and computational tools to extract comprehensive information from data sets. Calcium imaging is a widely used technique that requires sophisticated software to obtain reliable results, but many laboratories struggle to adopt computational methods when updating protocols to meet modern standards. Difficulties arise due to a lack of programming knowledge and paywalls for software. In addition, cells of interest display movements in all directions during calcium imaging. Many approaches have been developed to correct the motion in the lateral (x/y) direction. This paper describes a workflow using a new ImageJ plugin, TrackMate Analysis of Calcium Imaging (TACI), to examine motion on the z-axis in 3D calcium imaging. This software identifies the maximum fluorescence value from all the z-positions a neuron appears in and uses it to represent the neuron's intensity at the corresponding t-position. Therefore, this tool can separate neurons overlapping in the lateral (x/y) direction but appearing on distinct z-planes. As an ImageJ plugin, TACI is a user-friendly, open-source computational tool for 3D calcium imaging analysis. We validated this workflow using fly larval thermosensitive neurons that displayed movements in all directions during temperature fluctuation and a 3D calcium imaging dataset acquired from the fly brain.

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CalciumImaging, Three-DimensionalBrainImage Processing, Computer-AssistedNeuronsSoftwareCalcium

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PMID36591984
PMCPMC10388512

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