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ArticleTechnology in cancer research & treatment

Using Bland-Altman Analysis to Identify Appropriate Clonogenic Assay Colony Counting Techniques.

Seth Buryska, Sanjana Arji, Beverly Wuertz, Frank Ondrey

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Article in Technology in cancer research & treatment. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Seth BuryskaDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8386-2949
Sanjana ArjiDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Beverly WuertzDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2583-9043
Frank OndreyDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
University of Minnesota · US

Funding

Women's CancerP30CA077598 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI Jeffrey S. Miller · 1998 to 2026
$100.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA077598
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveDetermine the interchangeability of various methods utilized for counting colonies in clonogenic assays.

methodsClonogenic assays of 2 head and neck cancer cell lines were counted through 4 different counting modalities: Manual counting pen, via microscope, 1 publicly available automated algorithm, and a semiautomated algorithm presented by the authors. Each method counted individual wells (N = 24). Pen and microscopic counts were performed by 2 observers. Parameters included both low-growth (<150 colonies/well) and high-growth (>150 colonies/well) cell lines. Correlational and Bland-Altman analyses were performed using SPSS software.

resultsInterobserver manual pen count correlation

conclusionCounting with a manual pen demonstrated significant bias when compared to microscopic and semiautomated colony counts; 2 methods were deemed to be interchangeable. Thus, training algorithms based on manual counts may introduce this bias as well. Algorithms trained to select colonies based on size (pixels

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AlgorithmsSoftwareHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedalgorithmBland–Altmancancerclonogeniccolonycounting

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PMID37997353
PMCPMC10668582
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