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MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 102, Issue 4, Pages 690-700Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13486
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- University of Washington Royalty Research Fund
- Danish National Research Foundation
- [Sloan-BR2011-110]
- [NSF-PHY-084845]
- [NSF-MCB-1151043-CAREER]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience [1151043] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Many quantitative cell biology questions require fast yet reliable automated image segmentation to identify and link cells from frame-to-frame, and characterize the cell morphology and fluorescence. We present SuperSegger, an automated MATLAB-based image processing package well-suited to quantitative analysis of high-throughput live-cell fluorescence microscopy of bacterial cells. SuperSegger incorporates machine-learning algorithms to optimize cellular boundaries and automated error resolution to reliably link cells from frame-to-frame. Unlike existing packages, it can reliably segment microcolonies with many cells, facilitating the analysis of cell-cycle dynamics in bacteria as well as cell-contact mediated phenomena. This package has a range of built-in capabilities for characterizing bacterial cells, including the identification of cell division events, mother, daughter and neighbouring cells, and computing statistics on cellular fluorescence, the location and intensity of fluorescent foci. SuperSegger provides a variety of postprocessing data visualization tools for single cell and population level analysis, such as histograms, kymographs, frame mosaics, movies and consensus images. Finally, we demonstrate the power of the package by analyzing lag phase growth with single cell resolution.
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