Programmes & macros

Wound-healing

Author Frédéric Brau (frederic.brau at cnrs.fr)
History 2012: First version
Limitations Works with microscopy widefield phase contrast XY+t 8,16 bits stacks of TIF images
Source Scratched_area
Installation Download Scratched_area.ijm to the plugins folder
Restart ImageJ to add the "Scratched area" command to the Plugins menu.
Description This macro is dedicated to the wound healing analysis which measures the surface colonization by cells in a kinetic experiment. It measures the cell-free surface during time. After an illumination correction, the borders of the cellular mat are detected by an edge filtering followed by a gaussian filter. After an semi-manual intensity thresholding of the cell-free surface, it is measured with an exclusion threshold corresponding to 1% of the area measured in the previous image. A plot of the surface decrease is displayed as well as superimposing of the detected/measured area on the original stack.
To try the macro with a dedicated use case : Stack_test_wound_healing
 
Video_resultat_wound_healing
Video_resultat_wound_healing
Graphe_surface
Graphe_surface

Adipocytes areas

Author Frédéric Brau (frederic.brau at cnrs.fr)
History 2022: First version
Limitations Works with microscopy brightfield XY RGB images
Source xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Installation Download xxxxxxxxx to the plugins folder
Restart ImageJ to add the "xxxx" command to the Plugins menu.
Description This macro is dedicated to the surface analysis of the adipocytes on tissue sections and coloration. It measures the surface and counts the number of cells in a field of view. After an RGB color separation, the borders of the cellular mat are detected by a FFT bandpass filter. The cytoplasmic surface is automaticaly thresholded with the Triangle method and converted to a binary mask. After a filling the holes in the mask, the surface is obtained for each cell. 
To try the macro with a dedicated use case : xxxx