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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

DART: A GUI Pipeline for Aligning Histological Brain Sections to 3D Atlases and Automating Laser Microdissection.

Rishi Koneru, Manjari Anant, Hyopil Kim, Julian Cheron, Justus M Kebschull

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Rishi KoneruDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.ORCID 0009-0002-3714-0122
Manjari AnantDepartment of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6600-3410
Hyopil KimDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9159-8682
Julian CheronDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6369-0019
Justus M KebschullDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4851-0267

Funding

Cell type specific vulnerability to agingRF1AG078378 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI PATRICK O KANOLD, JUSTUS M KEBSCHULL · 2023 to 2026
$4.0M
IDENTIFYING EPIGENOMICS AND CONNECTOMICS OF PROTRACTED OPIOID WITHDRAWAL AND RELAPSE USING CELLULAR BARCODINGDP1DA056668 · NIDA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI JUSTUS M KEBSCHULL · 2022 to 2026
$2.5M
NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG078378NIDA NIH HHS DP1 DA056668
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The precise dissection of anatomically defined brain regions is the basis of many workflows in neurobiology. Traditionally, brain regions of interest are defined by visual inspection of tissue sections, followed by manual dissection. Recently, laser capture microscopes have been employed for more accurate dissection, but region identification is still challenging. This paper presents an open-source software pipeline DART (Dissecting Atlas-Registered Tissue) that aligns histological brain sections to three-dimensional reference atlases and exports the resulting region-of-interest (ROI) contours for dissection by Leica Laser Microdissection (LMD) instruments. By integrating well-established image-processing libraries with a user-friendly graphical user interface, the software automates the traditionally time-consuming workflow of defining the boundaries of brain regions for dissection. With this pipeline, researchers can streamline tissue sampling for molecular analyses, while ensuring reproducibility and precision in ROI selection.

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