Fluorescence microscopy cannot be used to image human embryos to determine embryo viability for in vitro fertilization because the introduction of exogenous fluorescent dyes is considered a toxic procedure. As a result, embryo viability has been measured primarily using differential interference contrast (DIC).
One of the principal challenges in counting or segmenting cells or cell nuclei is dealing with clustered objects such as in tissues. To help assess algorithms' performance in this regard, synthetic 3D image sets of human colon tissue are provided in two diferent levels of quality: high SNR and low SNR. Ground truth is available as well.
One of the principal challenges in counting or segmenting cells or cell nuclei is dealing with clustered objects. To help assess algorithms' performance in this regard, synthetic 3D image sets of HL60 cell line are provided consisting of four subsets with increasing degree of clustering. Each subset is also provided in two diferent levels of quality: high SNR and low SNR. Ground truth is available as well.
Five different samples of Drosophila melanogaster Kc167 cells were stained with Hoechst 33342, a DNA stain. The last sample (labeled nodsRNA) is of wild-type cells. Each of the other four samples (labeled 48, 340, Anillin, and mad2) has a different gene knocked down by RNAi.
The sample preparation is described in more detail by [Carpenter et al. (Genome Biology, 2006)(http://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-2006-7-10-r1…)
