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TITAN: An end-to-end data analysis environment for the Hyperion™ imaging system

Journal

CYTOMETRY PART A
Volume 101, Issue 5, Pages 423-433

Publisher

WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.24535

Keywords

analysis pipeline; computational biology; Hyperion; image cytometry; imaging mass cytometry (IMC); software

Funding

  1. CUASF -Bladder Cancer Canada Research Grant

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This article presents an open-source software called TITAN for processing and analyzing Imaging Mass Cytometry (IMC) data. TITAN provides a single environment for image visualization, segmentation, analysis, and export of IMC data, making it more user-friendly compared to current methods.
Imaging Mass Cytometry (IMC) is a powerful high-throughput technique enabling resolution of up to 37 markers in a single fixed tissue section while also preserving in situ spatial relationships. Currently, IMC processing and analysis necessitates the use of multiple different software, labour-intensive pipeline development, different operating systems and knowledge of bioinformatics, all of which are a barrier to many potential users. Here we present TITAN - an open-source, single environment, end-to-end pipeline that can be utilized for image visualization, segmentation, analysis and export of IMC data. TITAN is implemented as an extension within the publicly available 3D Slicer software. We demonstrate the utility, application, reliability and comparability of TITAN using publicly available IMC data from recently-published breast cancer and COVID-19 lung injury studies. Compared with current IMC analysis methods, TITAN provides a user-friendly, efficient single environment to accurately visualize, segment, and analyze IMC data for all users.

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